Lessons learned when starting to use Steemit

Lessons learned on day 1 of steemit

• Be aware of the editing time-limit of stories/blog posts.
  You may not be able to edit your post after a payout has been made from that post (less than 24hrs)
  
  I'm considering composing text in another editor first, especially as there is not presently a "save as draft" feature. Further, a check of how the story turns out immediately after posting may be useful to spot any incorrect markdown or HTML.
  
  
• Images
  Image files are not directly uploaded to steemit as they are in other social media platforms. Instead, you can upload to an image/file hosting service and add a link to the image on that hosting from your story. In markdown mode an image is inserted using  ! [ ] (url-to-image-on-web)
  
  
• Tags
  Each story may have a space delimited list of tags. Use the steemit search function to find stories that would be in a similar category as yours and find what tags they use with their post. The tags help your audience find relevant posts.
  
  
• Start exploring the steemit community and remember to upvote any posts and stories you come across that you appreciate.