You are absolutely a gmail user, because you visited my technical blog. If you like gmail chat also, here is some small tips you can play with.

Always set some attracting status message which suit to your character.

1)

If you wan to make bold , just add Astrix (*) before and after a particular word.

Eg: if you want status like below:

“The score never interested me, only the game.”

Set your status as:

“The *score* never interested me, only the game.”

2)

If you want to make it in italics, like below

“The score never interested me, only the game.”

do this:

“The score _never interested_ me, only the game.”

(dont remember the white space after _ and before _)

Also you can add Unicode character in your status. What to do is select some Unicode character from some website or here and paste on your status message . (not the Unicode number, but the character)

You can use gmail chat imoticons also as your status message

Emoticon	Key Combination
	<3
It’s a monkey!	|)
Rock out.	\m/
	: – o
	: D
	: (
	x – (
	B – )
	: ‘ (
	= D
	; )
	: – |
	= )
	: – D
	; ^ )
	; – )
	: – )
	: – /
	: P

I got some more from another reader Jackie’s comment. They are:

~ @ ~ poop
[:|] robot
: ( | ) monkey
: ( : ) cow
V . v . V crab

(remove space between letters, i put space to escape from wordpress editor )

Tags: chat, emoticons, gmail, status, stylish, unicode

The tag blockquote in html has a special beauty than any other tags by default. And when you use blockquote in your post, it gets more meaning than merely a text.

Then what will happen if you make your blockquote more stylish.

See my blockquote below:

There are 10 kinds of people in this world….Those who understand binary and those who don’t “

How i made this type of blockquote is simple. Add the following text to your style sheet.

blockquote:first-letter {
background: url(http://www.sajithmr.com/downloads/quote-left.png) no-repeat left top;
padding-left: 45px;
font: italic 1.4em Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
}

blockquote p:first-letter {
background: url(http://www.sajithmr.com/downloads/quote-left.png) no-repeat left top;
padding-left: 45px;
font:  3.4em Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
}

blockquote {
font:  1.3em Georgia, Times, serif;
color: #555555;
}

the second block in not necessary. Some blogs automatically add P tag after blockquote , thats why i used blockquote “p”.

Download the file http://www.sajithmr.com/downloads/quote-left.png and save locally, (if you want) and you can change the quote picture according to your blog style.

Tags: , blockquote, html, style sheet, stylish