Florida Gridiron | Celebrating the Sunshine State's Proud Football Heritage

If you are writing for one of our blogs, why not add an avatar that will help you gain the recognition you deserve?

For starters, if you don’t know, an avatar is a tiny image you use to show a picture of yourself. You get one with your site profile – your overall profile that makes you a member of FloridaGridiron.com. This allows you to join/form groups and discussions.

If you choose to start a blog, or write for a blog, then you have a profile (same log-in information) that allows you to write for that blog. You can also tweak that user profile with another avatar (or perhaps the same) that shows you off as a writer on the site.

Got questions? Leave a comment or email me. Happy avatar-ing!

Now, to make joining the site easier than ever, we just implemented using Facebook Connect to FloridaGridiron!

If you want to join the site, and don’t feel like waisting time on filling out more information, simply click on the Facebook Connect button and log in using your Facebook ID and password. Simple as that, you’re done!

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You are also logged into both FloridaGridiron and your Facebook account at the same time! Welcome aboard!

So, you’ve come to the right place to talk about your favorite team – or even to talk trash to the fans of your most hated rival! But you want to know now to get around the site a bit – here is a brief tutorial on what you can do next.

The point of this site is obviously to find ways to connect with other fans of your favorite team, but also to read what is being said about your team (and possibly, even express yourself about what concerns your favorite team!)

Let’s start from the beginning – when you land on FloridaGridiron.com, you start on the main blog. It serves as kind of a landing spot for eveything – you can navigate from here to any portion of the site. To find your favorite team’s blog, just scan the navigation bar at the top of the page (not the grey floating bar at the very top!). You will see several selections:

• Home – brings you back to the main page, FloridaGridiron.com in this case
• Blog – brings you to the blog section, in this case FloridaGridiron.com’s blog updates
• Members – gives you a list of all the members, site wide, of FloridaGridiron
• Groups – gives you a list of groups, sitewide, of FloridaGridiron
• Blogs – gives you a list of all the blogs, sitewide, of FloridaGridiron; for example, The Aquarium, The Tribe, etc.

By clicking on each of those tabs, you will be redirected to a different portion of the site (as described above). Easy enough? Now, go get lost out there! Form groups, connect with other fans, and talk trash to your rivals!

In order to make life easier, you could sign up for an account at Gravatar which will give you a centralized area to enter a picture to be used in all of your posts, etc.

A gravatar is a globally recognized avatar and will allow you to upload an image which will follow you from site to site you sign up at. Just a tip, take a look and try it out.

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Just fine tuning things a bit around here. We have relaunched the site as a social network built around the sport of football here in Florida. For now, we are focusing on the major college teams and pro teams, but in the future we are looking to expand to all college teams here in Florida as well as high school programs.

For now, we are tweaking The Aquarium, which is our portion of the site dedicated to the Miami Dolphins. Check out the latest posts there by heading directly to the Aquarium or by checking back on the front end here.

We started this website a few years ago, but it kind of fell out of use as I was overwhelmed with other projects. Now, however, we are relaunching the site and starting completely over. We are going to be adding brand new content and using a revolutionary format that will enhance the community of FloridaGridiron.com.

What is unique here is that football is not just a sport in our state, but rather a way of life. From Pop Warner on up to the professional level, football is breathed in by Floridians and celebrated virtually year round. Perhaps it is due to the climate here, and this is one of the reasons why Florida produces the best football talent in the country.

So, welcome to FloridaGridiron.com. Here we celebrate the Sunshine State’s proud football heritage. Be a part of it and be heard. Then, of course, rekindle those old rivalries!