DropCaps is the name for the effect where the first letter of the first paragraph in an article “drops” blow the line, and is displayed in a larger font-size than the other normal letters, for an interesting and professional look. I had written a plugin for WordPress 1.2. To obtain this style in blogger powered blogs is even more easy. Inserting a few lines of css as following, which I used for my blog, is enough:

.post-body p:first-letter {
font-size : 300%;
font-weight : bold;
float : left;
margin-right: 3px;
}