Focus comes equipped with everything you need to produce a professional-grade website. I personally guarantee that you’ll be positively amazed by how easy it is to put your best foot forward with this product.

In this article, you’ll be able explore the styles at your disposal when using this Skin.

Lists

Lists are easy for readers to digest, and because of that, most people love ‘em. With that in mind, you oughta start using more lists in your posts! This Skin comes equipped with killer list styles¹, and your job is simply to choose the one that is best-suited to your particular needs₂. The first type of list is an unordered list, and it looks like this:

• List item 1
• List item 2 with a link to nowhere
• List item 3
  • Nested list item 1
  • Nested list item 2
• List item 4

The second type of list is an ordered list, and it looks like this:

1. List item 1
2. List item 2
3. List item 3
4. List item 4

Sub-Headlines

Sub-headlines have already been used twice in this post…did you spot them? The first one says “Lists,” and the second one says “Sub-Headlines.” Thanks to the flexibility of our Skins, you can create similar sub-headlines without having to do any styling on-the-fly. All you have to do is wrap your sub-headline text in <h2> tags (or select “Heading 2” in the WYSIWYG editor), and BOOM, you’ll get results like you see here.

You can also use Heading 3 (<h3>) and Heading 4 (<h4>) for sub-sections as needed.

Sub-section Heading

The heading above is a third level heading, or <h3>. It’s not as significant as a sub-headline, but it is certainly useful for delineating a separate thought or idea.

Specialty Heading

Occasionally, you may need to differentiate between parts of an article sub-section. The fourth level heading, or <h4>, can be useful in these circumstances, but the most important thing here is simply the fact that your Skin supports this kind of text formatting.

Blockquotes

This is one area where our Skins have no peers…

Every Skin worth its weight in bandwidth comes with some sort of pre-defined blockquote styling, but how many WordPress themes or Skins do you know of that come with three different blockquote styles? This is one area where our Skins have no peers, and you can use these blockquote styles to your advantage as you liven up your posts for your readers.

The quote above is what is referred to as a “pullquote,” and you can create two types of these in your posts—one will be aligned to the right, and the other to the left. Use the following structure to make it happen: <blockquote class="x">, where x is replaced by either “left” or “right,” depending on which side of the text you want your pullquote to display.

Standard Blockquote

And naturally, no Skin would be complete without the standard old blockquote, which comes out looking like this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque pharetra velit vel purus. Nunc tempor, urna sit amet euismod elementum, erat tellus auctor erat, non condimentum dui wisi non orci. Nam fringilla leo sed dui. Vestibulum ac elit sit amet diam vehicula scelerisque.

To use these, simply wrap your quoted text in <blockquote> tags.

Alerts, Notes, and Highlight Boxes

But sometimes, you only need a single paragraph to get the job done, and you can see that in action right here.

One thing is for sure—these notes won’t go unnoticed.

In most cases, the box class is useful outside of the content as well, so be sure to check your Skin’s documentation to see where you can use this handy formatting class.

Images

Finally, be sure to take a look at this Skin’s image styles.

This is a WordPress featured image with a caption.

This is a WordPress featured image with a caption.

This is a WordPress featured image with a caption.

This is a WordPress featured image with a caption.

This is a WordPress featured image with a caption.

This is a WordPress featured image with a caption.

The image above is a WordPress featured image for this post. By default, it will be aligned flush left with no text wrap, but you can select any alignment you like in your WordPress media gallery.

In addition to WordPress featured image support, Focus comes with 4 default image alignments:

• flush left with no text wrap (typically the default)
• centered
• left with text wrap
• right with text wrap

Here’s a flush left image with an inline caption:

Check out this cool caption style, which is built into Focus!

To add this nifty caption style to your post, simply switch to the text editor, and then wrap your caption text like so:

<p class="caption">Your caption text here.</p>

And here’s the same image from above with a default WordPress caption:

This image also has a caption that’s defined in the WordPress media gallery.

And this next image is centered (also note that text does not/should not wrap around centered images):

You can also add a frame to any of your images; here’s that last image—still centered—but with a frame:

Adding frames is easy, too. When editing your post, switch to the text editor, and then add a frame class to the image you want to frame:

<img class="aligncenter frame" src="your_image_url" alt="your image alt" />

This paragraph is here to show you how text will wrap around an image that is aligned to the left. Notice how the image is surrounded by whitespace to avoid any unsightly collisions between the text and the image.

Of course, you also need to see what a right-aligned image looks like. The text will wrap around this image at a safe distance to ensure easy reading.

It is a constant battle to ensure that elements will render correctly, and even when you think you’ve gotten everything worked out perfectly, you may find that Safari, for instance, doesn’t know what to do with an unordered list of encoded text:

• Safari
• may not
• render this
• worth a damn

And even when you’ve gotten all that figured out, you still have to ensure that the <pre> tag is styled properly and renders consistently across a wide range of modern browsers.

code {
	font-family: Consolas, Monaco, Courier, sans-serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	line-height: 1em;
	color: #050;
}