Most people simply underestimate the power of a nice & correct formatting. But especially on Steemit, a clean and nice formatting makes it much easier and more appalling to read and understand a text.
 

Here are some examples from Steemians with large followers and whose posts are regularly voted into 'trending':
@sweetsssj:

or @kingscrown:

or @firepower:

Everybody reading this text has probably worked with Microsoft Word or Open Office before and knows how easy formatting is: You just mark the text and click the according button... but not so in Steemit! It's a little more work, but still easy. Steemit uses basic html codes and we will show you the most important ones:

Header

Just put a # in front of the word with a space between, and it will look look like that:

Blahblahblah

Bold

Blahblahblah

Italic

Just put _ right before and after the text and it will look like this:
Blahblahblah

Bold + Italic

You can of course combine the codes to make your text bold AND italic.
Simply combine the codes at the beginning and end of the text, but starting with the italic code and you 'll get a text like this:
Steemit formatting is easier than I thought!

Center images

Simply use following code to center your images:

If you wanna bind in a link into a text or word just use the following code:

Now that you know how to format on Steemit, you have to admit it's easier than you thought, isn't it?

Btw: Writing this article on my smartphone, it took some time, but it's definitely possible as you can see ;)

Enjoy and create some nicely formatted posts!