Sorry to bother you again, but I have two new questions.

1. When doing a dropcap at the beginning of a document, do you include the period too if the first character is an initial, for instance M. and what about the quotation mark when the first letter is part of a quote?

2. I created a body background command on my stylesheet and successfully changed the color of my document. I wanted to add a little space around all the elements in the body by adding the padding property. It worked on the top and bottom but not on the sides. What did I do wrong?