When presenting information online, you often want to do more with it than just italicize some text, or make a headline big and red. You probably want the means to create callout boxes and sidebars, with different colors, different borders, in differing sizes — just like you would find in offline documents created with OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or your favorite Desktop Publisher. Often, the code to create such boxes is not usually included in the stylesheet that comes with your theme or template. This series remedies that!
Jan 062010
Want to make your articles, reports, blog postings more visually appealing? Assembled here are my all-time favorite textboxes, callouts, sidebars, and formatted quotations easily created using simple CSS. Included are the little code snipplets you’ll need to duplicate these on your own blog (whether using WordPress, Blogger or another CMS).
I first learned how to create simple colored borders around textboxes using nothing but CSS while I was studying the YAML framework. Not really WordPress-related, YAML (Yet Another Multicolumn Layout) is a framework for developing and hand-coding CSS website projects.
You rarely find the CSS code to create eye-catching text boxes included in the stylesheet that comes with your theme or template; however, the Guangzhou Theme for WordPress is a bit different. While searching for the CSS styles I wanted, I discovered by accident that Guangzhou already had several built-in styles that were carefully thought out and a real boon to writing good-looking articles, reports, and blog postings.
The very first time I saw beautiful colored textboxes created with just CSS was while I perusing a Joomla! site. Wanting to replicate this in my own Joomla-based site, I was directed to the xTypo extension. Later, as I developed articles for a WordPress-based site, I hoped to find a plugin that would provide the same easy way to integrate textboxes. After much searching, manual code insertion, I finally found the Special Text Boxes WordPress Plugin, which was ported directly from the xTypo extension.
Out of the blue. Without warning. Your Special Text Boxes Plugin Stopped Working! Was it the upgrade to WordPress 3.x? Or the last plugin update? I wanted my cool CSS styles back! Here’s how I resolved the problem with the Special Text Boxes Plugin for WordPress
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