Munuviana

For number 2, use the blockquote tag. That's:

Whatever you want blocked and quoted.

But without the spaces between the brackets.

It stripped my example. Bah! Humbug. Try this:

[blockquote]Stuff being quoted.[/blockquote]

But use the regular "" instead of "[" and "]".

What the hey? Can you not put a greater and less than symbol in a comment?

and then define 'blockquote' in the template or the stylesheet?

Nope--blockquote is an html tag.

Ted - CSS is the answer. Swipe someone's styles-site.css (So yes, you use blockquote and assign a stle to it in the stylesheet.)

Jim - MT strips out any HTML from comments that isn't specifically permitted, to stop people playing nasty tricks. To show a < use &lt; instead.

Ted, the Bartender gave me the script for my CSS template. You can find his post about it here

Don't mind me.

But what about the scrolling picture?

The non-scrolling picture code for Consent of the Governed is:

body {
margin:20px 20px 20px 20px;
background:#FFFFFF;
background-image:url(http://madfishwillies.mu.nu/images/BG-WeThePeople.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
}

You can probably take the code out for the repeat line - no need for it here. It was in the sample code I modeled from so I just included it to be safe. I did define the background color above the picture url so that if they have pictures disabled they will see a colored background (well white background in this case).

Pixy: I was browsing the MT support forum and ran across this post about inserting code into posts without it being parsed by MT. It has some macro coding, which I don't know anything about for MT -yet. I wonder if it would work in comments. Here is the link and the response by Brad Choate looked like the end of the discussion. Is this something for you to implement or is it something I can do locally?

It's already implemented.

That's how the smilies work.