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Drop Caps are those BIG first letters that you see in fancy books, and in articles in the New York Times.

Here's an example on the web, the letters R ... E ... A ... D:
http://www.ZorbaPress.com

Previously those large letters were made with images: they loaded slowly, and caused other problems on certain screens. The drop caps are simple.

Want to try it? Here's some links that show you how:

http://www.mompswebdesign.com/css/dropcap.html

http://www.mandarindesign.com/dropcaps.html

http://www.hypergurl.com/cssdropcaps.html

http://psacake.com/web/ca2.asp