Michael, Tell me what you think of the following idea. First, please take a look at the site I am building where I have incorporated your widget.
You will notice I have disabled the default quotation marks, instead I am manually applying the graphical block quote built into my theme to each quote. Additionally I have created the following "custom include" (in my theme) to modify how the testimonial appears.
.testimonialswidget_testimonial q {
quotes: none; color: #617284; font-style: italic; font-size: 110%; font-weight:normal;
}
Here is the suggestion. It would be quite cool if you were to provide some styling options in the user interface, allowing users to disable the standard quotation marks, implement a custom block quote (not the one from the theme, choose from a few different blockquote images, apply italics, bolding, change font size, etc. Right now, I have had to modify the settings for the built-in block quote to make it work correctly with TW. Unfortunately, that impacts how block quotes look through-out the site.
With all the above being said and suggested for your future to-do list, is there a way I can accomplish the following on an interim basis? As you can tell I am not a CSS expert (I don't even play one on TV). Using the above custom include approach to modifying my CSS, is there a way I can apply the blockquotes, as the default, to each newly entered Testimonial? Right now, I have to remember to apply them individually.