[sitetechie]

Thank you, great suggestions. Point by point: 1) Why is this better? 2) Started out using CSS3, but found this easier to accommodate older browsers. Maybe I should do both? 3) Tried to make it look like the Google Map bubble, that's why it's different. 4) OK, will test. 5) Second paragraph is somewhat of a subtext to come to the conclusion in the third paragraph, but you're right in that it screws up rhythm. 6) Yep, that's a non-designer trying design for ya. 7) It has the same left-margin as the other headers and most paragraphs, but the leading dots give a somewhat false illusion, I think. 8) Thanks, good suggestion, will do.

[d1plo1d]

Responding to 2) in my experience as a web developer divs are generally no longer used to round corners because the market share of the browsers which don't support css3 rounded corners is increasingly negligible.

Personally I prefer CSS3 rounded corners because they do a better job of decoupling design, functionality and content (which in a perfect world would each fit completely into css, js and html respectively).

Most developers I know followed suit with Google after they dropped support for ie7 in Google Apps back in 2011: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.ca/2011/06/our-plans-to-sup...

EDIT: Looks like rounded corners only got added to ie9 so Google's ie7 stuff is irrelevant, my guess: a degraded experience on ie8 is generally taken as acceptable.

[sitetechie]

For a fluid layout with rounded corners I would have probably gone with CSS3 (versus corner divs), but since the block is fixed-size I could just suffice with one bubble.png as the background to upgrade the ie8 experience. And left it at that, being pragmatic and all.