I asked my readers to think out a technique for laying out blocks with rounded-off corners and shadows. Take a look at the solutions I received, and you will see that most of them are very much alike: four elements in the corners and a somewhat odd-looking result, though there are some differences in block placement. Let's take a detailed look at the way those techniques work and also find out why this article isn't simply titled "Creating rounded-off blocks with shadows."

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