with Lorelle and Brent VanFossen

CSS Unleashed – Experiments with Quotations, Pull-quotes and Blockquotes

CSS containers and boxes can be used to create a wide range of blockquotes, pull-quotes and quotes in general, highlighting a bit of content to attract attention. These can also be used as boxes to highlight tips, advice, or sidebar information with the help of a few bullets in a list. We want to push the limits on what you can do with CSS containers and boxes with our CSS experiments.

Inspiration for our CSS experiments come from a variety of magazines and printed informational material, using their graphic use of text and color as inspiration. Remember, none of these use tables, only CSS to create the design.

Color and text style always plays an important role in creating dramatic and attention-getting blockquotes and pull-quotes, but also notice the use of space around and in-between a pull-quote. Empty space can also enhance the impact of the quote. And remember, these are CSS experiments, and they may break in different browsers, page designs and layouts, as well as column widths.

For more information on how these were done and how to use these CSS design elements and style experiments, see CSS Experiments – How They Were Done and More and CSS Experiments Putting It All Together.

To see how these CSS experimental boxes and styles work, view the source code of the page. In your web browser menu, click VIEW > SOURCE or VIEW > PAGE SOURCE to view the source code. For the most part, the styles are included inline with each design.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.
Diane Arbus (1923-1971)

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.
Diane Arbus (1923-1971)
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know. Diane Arbus (1923-1971)
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know. Diane Arbus (1923-1971)
 
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know. Diane Arbus (1923-1971)
 

It’s an amazing thing to just talk to someone and have handprints frame the quote as if it was being held up against the wall. Who knows? Maybe it is?
Lorelle, Goofing Around
 

No Matter How Slow The Film,Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. Minor White

The universe does co-operate with the photographer, when the photographer is willing in spirit and soul to take the time it takes, to have the patience, to have the courage, to wait for the moment. It is then the shutter is pressed. Not when the photographer is ready. When the moment is right.
 
No Matter How Slow The Film,Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. Minor White

The universe does co-operate with the photographer, when the photographer is willing in spirit and soul to take the time it takes, to have the patience, to have the courage, to wait for the moment. It is then the shutter is pressed. Not when the photographer is ready. When the moment is right.
 

Henri Poincare: Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
 
Ernst Haas says: The less descriptive the photo, the more stimulating it is for the imagination. The less information, the more suggestion; the less prose, the more poetry.
 

I LOOK LIKE A PHOTOGRAPHER
Nevada Wier, Travel Photographer
I keep my antennae out and pay attention. I move slowly and work quickly. I want to be an active observer not a passive bystander. It breaks down the barriers because here I am, looking like I just landed from Mars with all this equipment on me, and I’m cute and funny and make them laugh as I should. I build a rapport at that moment.
 

I LOOK LIKE A PHOTOGRAPHER
Nevada Wier, Travel Photographer
I keep my antennae out and pay attention. I move slowly and work quickly. I want to be an active observer not a passive bystander. It breaks down the barriers because here I am, looking like I just landed from Mars with all this equipment on me, and I’m cute and funny and make them laugh as I should. I build a rapport at that moment.
 

5,342
THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO MIGHT VISIT THIS WEB PAGE DAILY BUT ARE UNSURE OF THE PURPOSE OF IT.
Statistics are average and not based on any daily recommended allowances or dietary restrictions, if any.
 

COUPON SALE
There is no must in art because art is free. Kandinsky

Sell your cleverness and buy enchantment. Rumi

This is a coupon sale style with a dashed border around it which gives it a very newspaper feel.

 

ART DEFINED HERE
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
Lubbock (1834-1913)
 
ART DEFINED HERE
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
Lubbock (1834-1913)
 

» Wildlife needs clutter and chaos. It needs options and opportunities. It needs the slow centuries of growth, nurture, disturbance and decline that produces a complex and unique forest community.
David Middleton, Ancient Growth
 

For what has made the sage or poet write, But the fair paradise of Nature’s light.
Keats (1795-1821)
 
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
 

If we had something to say, it would be that this is white on rust
If we had something to say, it would be that this is rust on yellow
If we had something to say, it would be that this is yellow on orange
If we had something to say, it would be that this is orange on rust, but we don’t, so we just wander around looking cute. That’s good enough, right?
 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. Thoreau
 

Look Down
There Is A World Below

“Wandering through the world as I do, I often forget to watch my feet. When I stop to watch them, I often find camouflaged, wondrous things. Insects, lizards, butterflies, ants, flowers….it makes me walk a little more carefully and slowly now.”
Lorelle VanFossen, Personal Journal
 
Look Down
There Is A World Below

“Wandering through the world as I do, I often forget to watch my feet. When I stop to watch them, I often find camouflaged, wondrous things. Insects, lizards, butterflies, ants, flowers….it makes me walk a little more carefully and slowly now.”
Lorelle VanFossen, Personal Journal
 

A photographic image creates a story that was never intended to be told. It is a lie telling the truth, a yes and no at the same time, an is and an is not.

Ernst Haas, photographer and author
 

 
FULFILLING MOMENTS
One of life’s most fulfilling moments occurs in that split second when the familiar is suddenly transformed into the dazzling aura of the profoundly new…These breakthroughs are too infrequent, more uncommon than common; and we are mired most of the time in the mundane and the trivial. The shocker: what seems mundane and trivial is the very stuff that discovery is made of. The one difference is our perspective, our readiness to put the pieces together in an entirely new way and to see patterns where only shadows appeared just a moment before.
Edward B. Lindaman, Thinking in Future Tense
 

PHOTOGRAPHER’S CODE OF ETHICS
An animals wariness is it’s key to survival and critical to the protection of it’s young. The Photographer’s Code of Ethics prohibits harassing, endangering or interfering with the natural life cycle of wild animals. Therefore, we choose to work in National Parks, wildlife viewing areas and occassionaly with hand raised subjects such as this wolf. In this way, we can share the antics and spirit of relaxed, unstressed animals without endangering the animal or it’s young.
Leo Keeler, Alaska Photographer
 

 
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and avalance. Ill acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.
John Muir
 
 
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and avalance. Ill acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.

John Muir

 

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent.
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Syndey Smith

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