For people who want a bit more formatting in their prayers, you can easily do some simple formatting in this blog implementation so that you can have some words show up in itallics or bold face. You can also insert small pictures or even links. Well, you can do all kinds of things, but after a bit the instructions get confusing, so I’ll stick with the four things mentioned above.
To get itallics, you just put an underscore, ‘_’, before and after the text you wish to itallicize. To make things bold, place asterisks, ‘*’, before and after. Thus,
_itallic text_ and *bold text*
becomes itallic text and bold text
To post a picture, surround the web address (url) of the picture with exclaimation points, ‘!’. For example, if you wanted to post a photo of your baked chicken, you would write
!http://is.gd/luQw!
and you would get
Finally, to post a link, surround the name of the link in quotation marks, follow with a colon and then the address associated with that name. No spaces. For example, to get to our church’s home page you might write
"First Congregational Church of Reading, U.C.C.":http://www.churchofreading.org/welcome.html
and you would get, First Congregational Church of Reading, U.C.C., which will, indeed, take you to our church’s web page.