About Diaries

Diaries are your place to post Patriots news and your opinions. Do not hesitate to post in this section. Just be sure follow the standard Pats Pulpit Community Rules. Remember, Pats Pulpit is an open community.

Diaries meriting promotion will be moved to the main section of Pats Pulpit. These submissions are subject to editing for spelling, grammar, formatting and style. Content will be edited only to make the diary adhere to the posted Community Rules and copyright standards, to eliminate potentially libelous information, or for other reasons. I will contact the original writer before editing, but I may edit and move the post before receiving a response.

Please add links to any referenced or quoted materials.

Yeah, it all sounds pretty scary (it isn't) and "legal" (it is, loosely), but I want to impress that I expect posts to be thoughtful and well-structured. The goal is communication.

Formatting Tips

I stole this from Brian G at Buffalo Rumblings. (Thanks, BG!)

The commands below work in the "Auto Format" setting. If you know a little something about HTML (here's a fantastic tutorial, use the "HTML Formatted" setting and apply tags appropriately.

Paragraphs and line breaks
In order to start a new paragraph, simply press Enter twice. To insert a line break, press Enter once. Note that text will automatically wrap to fit the size of the screen, so line breaks like that are generally unnecessary. In most cases, you shouldn’t need to hit Enter at all except for paragraph breaks.

Bold and Italics
If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, you can type it into the text box surrounded in asterisks (*), *like this*. This will cause the text between the asterisks to be rendered in bold type. Similarly, you can also enter text between underscores (_) or slashes (/), _like this_ /or this/, in order to render the given text in italics.

Strikethrough Text
If you want to put a line through text for effect, you must use the HTML Tags or to make the text look like this: Strike Through Text you must also click on "HTML Formatted" in the drop down menu that is listed in Auto Format.

Making links
Of course, you can’t post on the Web without needing to insert a link every now and then. Creating a link is as simple as typing in the URL (the address shown in your browser’s toolbar at the top of the window). Auto Format mode will automatically turn all URLs into links. For example, if you were to type the following text:

the resulting comment will look like this:

Of course, it’s not always desirable to have the text of the link be the same as the target of the link. You can use brackets (’[’ and ‘]’) in order to specify both the link text and link target. For example, if you wanted the text "a great New England Patriots blog" to point to http://www.patspulpit.com/, you would type the following:

Which will render like so:

Blockquotes
Also, you can make block quotes. I use them when I extensively quoting another source like an article or some other website, or when I want to especially emphasize a point. Write it like this (removing all "---" marks):

<---div class="blockquote"--->Insert text of the quote here<---/div>

And it will look like this:

Remember, if you quote from an article, please link back to the article. Copyrights can be tricky business.

Please email me if you have any questions.

Now let's hear it, Patriots Nation!

Go PATRIOTS!!