[panamahat]

Hi:
I'm a brand-newbie to Wordpress and blogging but managed to muddle through pretty well until I hit block quote. I have an article I'm quoting and I've succeeded in making the article indented. Unfortunately, it also has giant quotation marks at the beginning of all the paragraphs, even the one not in the block. And it doesn't have a quotation mark at the end. I've searched Wordpress and the net but all the tuturials are way above my head.
I don't have a real preference for the way the block quote is displayed, as long as it's consistent -- either the beginning and ending paragraphs with the giant quotes or just doing without them entirely. (I definitely don't want a quote at the beginning of every paragraph!)
Any help really appreciated.
PH
p.s. here is the code for the page and also a screenshot of the page (ATTACHED) If I should send the code a different way, please let me know. Thanks.

<blockquote><a rel="attachment wp-att-55" href="http://www.patrickvasarhelyi.com/?attachment_id=55"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-55" title="_44068209_camels_ap203b" src="http://www.patrickvasarhelyi.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/44068209_camels_ap203b1.jpg" alt="Camels were brought to Australia in the 1840s for transportation" width="203" height="152" /></a><strong><span style="color: #eb8313;">It's just amazing the things that turn up when you're researching a book. *How to make a ham sandwich, The Big Nose Appreciation website (</span></strong><em><strong><span style="color: #eb8313;">"The main goal is to try and bring together all the people that like big noses in a friendly environment of communication."</span></strong></em><strong><span style="color: #eb8313;">), *a step-by-step guide to making false teeth (</span></strong><em><strong><span style="color: #eb8313;">"I do not make teeth on mail-order no matter what you say or offer."</span></strong></em><strong><span style="color: #eb8313;">) My favorite, though (with apologies to the dear departed) is this story out of Australia, courtesy of the BBC. *(And yes, I really did research all these subjects, although only camels made it into the manuscript.)</span></strong> <span style="color: #eb8313;"> </span>
<blockquote><strong><span style="color: #eb8313;"> PET CAMEL KILLS AUSTRALIAN WOMAN</span></strong></blockquote>
<blockquote><span style="color: #eb8313;"> </span><strong><span style="color: #eb8313;">A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her. *The woman was found dead at the family's sheep and cattle ranch near the town of Mitchell in Queensland.</span></strong></blockquote>
<blockquote><strong><span style="color: #eb8313;"> </span><span style="color: #eb8313;"> </span></strong> <span style="color: #eb8313;"> </span><strong><span style="color: #e7a417;"><span style="color: #eb8313;">The woman had been given the camel as a 60th birthday present earlier this year because of her love of exotic pets. The camel was just 10 months old but already weighed 152kg (336lbs) and had come close to suffocating the family's pet goat on a number of occasions.</span><span style="color: #eb8313;"> </span></span></strong></blockquote>
<blockquote><strong><span style="color: #e7a417;"><span style="color: #eb8313;">On Saturday, the woman apparently became the object of the male camel's desire.</span><span style="color: #eb8313;"> </span><span style="color: #eb8313;">It knocked her to the ground, lay on top of her and displayed what the police delicately described as possible mating behaviour.</span><span style="color: #eb8313;"> </span><span style="color: #eb8313;"> "I'd say it's probably been playing, or it may be even a sexual sort of thing," the Associated Press news agency quoted Queensland police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory as saying.</span> <span style="color: #eb8313;"> </span></span></strong></blockquote>
<blockquote><strong><span style="color: #e7a417;"><span style="color: #eb8313;">Young camels are not normally aggressive but can become more threatening if treated and raised as pets.</span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #e7a417;"> </span></strong></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Ya Think?</strong></span>

[colinsp]

Have a look at the CSS for the blockquote in the theme that you are using and you will probably find the opening quotes defined there.

[panamahat]

Wow, took care of it immediately. Many thanks, Colin.
PH

[colinsp]

No problem glad it sorted it.