Mat Bowles

It's a standard CSS tweak, quite easy once you know how. Go to Journal Style and put the following three bits of code into the custom CSS:

q {
background:#777;
       -moz-border-radius: 5px;
       -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
  font-style: italic;
}
blockquote {
background:#777;
padding:10px;
       -moz-border-radius: 10px;
       -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
  font-style: italic;
}
blockquote blockquote {
background:#4a525a;
padding:10px;
       -moz-border-radius: 10px;
       -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
  font-style: italic;
}

You'll want to change the colours, and always make sure you put quotes in either [q] or [blockquote] tags. The curved corners only show in Firefox and Safari, they're CSS3 tricks and IE is only barely CSS2 compliant :-( The third set of code is to remove the grey if there's a quote inside a quote, brings it back to my normal default.

I keep meaning to write up a how to, but then I get distracted by pretty things like more Doctor Who...