So I am going to test this blog out now by putting up a big post. Here goes.

Alleys are also ideal places for the kinds of informal activities that can help create a sense of community. Alleys can be places for working on a car or boat, building a tree house, playing basketball or soccer, building a storage shed, or simply chatting with friends or walking a dog… Alleys can thus be seen as not only functional storage zones but also as important activity spaces where informal activities that glue neighbourhoods together but are often discouraged out front can thrive. They can act as avenues of social connection (Ford, 2001, p. 277).

Hopefully, formatting should have worked properly. This is cool, I'm learning CSS on the fly. I have learned though that little quote thingeys don't work. Here's a test of a web link Fark.