Who can read TSL Blogs? Do you have to be a subscriber?

Anyone can read TSL Blogs. You do not have to be a paying subscriber.

How do I read TSL Blogs?

Anyone can read the blogs, without being registered for them. It’s very simple. The TSL Blogs Home page has the most recent entries by our bloggers (we started out with it set to display 10 posts). To see the full text of any given blog entry on its own page, just click the title of the blog entry.

Once you’re “inside” a blog entry, reading it, you can jump forward to the next entry or backwards to the previous one, or go back to the blog home page, using the links near the top of the blog entry. (They’re clearly marked.)

Where are the blogs located on the site?

We have a “TSL Blogs” link on the home page, and you can also access them from our site’s menu bar. Select “TSL Exclusives — TSL Blogs.”

Who writes TSL Blogs?

For starters, we have five bloggers: Will Stewart and Chris Coleman of TechSideline.com; message board regular (to say the least) bourbonstreet; and TSL guest writers and football analysts Raleigh Hokie and Phil Martin.

What do the bloggers write about? How often do they write?

TSL’s bloggers write about anything they want to write about, as often as they want to. Unlike the articles that scroll through TSL’s home page, which are scheduled content that is part of the editorial plan, the blogs are wide open. We don’t tell our bloggers what to write, and they create and post their content themselves, outside of the regular editorial flow. (That’s code for “These things aren’t edited, so please forgive the typos and grammatical errors”!)

Why have blogs?

Uh, because it’s trendy? No? Actually, we wanted content that would fill in the gap between our articles, which are in-depth and archived, and our message boards, which are off-the-cuff and not archived. As we said above, the blogs are wide open, and the blog entries will last forever, unless the admin or the author decides to delete them.

Can I get involved in the discussion and add a comment after a blog entry?

Sure, but it must abide by the same rules as our message board Terms of Service. In order to add a comment after a blog entry, you’ll have to have a separate TSL Blogs account.

What’s a TSL Blogs account, and how do I get one?

A TSL Blogs account is a username and password that enables you to log into the TSL Blogs area and comment on blog entries. If you just want to read the TSL Blogs, don’t worry about an account, because you won’t need one.

Sorry, but the TSL Blogs are currently not tied in to our message board database, subscriber database, etc., so you’ll have to create a new account — click that link — specifically for the blogs, if you want to comment. We suggest you use your registered TSL username and email address to create a new account. Once you’re registered, you’ll get a password via email. You can login and change your password if you wish. Once you’re logged in, you can comment on a blog entry or respond to another comment.

Whoa, after I register, I go to some blue page with “Dashboard” and “Your Profile” written on it! What’s that?

That’s a page provided by WordPress (our blog engine) that enables you to update your WordPress profile (email address, password, etc.). To return to the TSL Blogs, just click “View site” near the top of your screen.

How can I change my TSL Blogs email address or password?

Once you’re registered and logged into the TSL Blogs area, look to the right-hand side for the area labeled “Your TSL Blogs Account.” Click the “Site Admin” link, which will take you to a blue-themed page that says “Welcome to WordPress.” From there, look for the “Profile” link to access your profile and make changes to your personal information, email address, password, etc.

Do you have RSS feeds for your blogs?

Yes, we do. Just look to the “Feeds” category on the right-hand side and select your favorite feed — not just RSS feeds, but a couple of other options, too. If you don’t understand feeds, please don’t ask us how they work. We are just simple cavemen, and we do not understand these “computers” and “blogs” and “Internets.”