Teaching you some basics - Make your text more attractive and readable
Many blog posts that you read have an attractive layout. A layout that makes reading such a blog post more attractive. They look well-organized, are easy to read and have different paragraphs with different font sizes.
It may have been a threshold to start blogging. Then when you create a blog your text looks boring. It is then worthwhile to read this post. After reading you can make your text a lot nicer to read.
I will try to explain what basic code you can use to make your post more readable.
Markdown
What is Markdown? It is a simple language to format your text. There are only a few possibilities available to make your text beautiful. This makes it clear.
I will show you a number of options below.
The examples
The examples are a very basic list of a lot more options. But for the purpose of keeping things easy I just listed the most commonly used ones.
- Creating headers
- Making bold text
- Making Italic text
- Quoting text
First of all a paragraph, this is an easy one. By tapping 2x a return the next paragraph is started.
Headers
To create headings, tap a hash and a space in front of the header:
Bold and italic text
For Italic text place 1 asterix * in front of the word or sentence and one after.
For bold text you place two asterix’s ** in front of the word or sentence and two after.
Quoting text
You can quote text with a >
I hope you'll find this kinda useful to implement in your next blog post. Looking forward to seeing your Marked-up text!
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Thanks, Mark told me, but I forgot!
Going to try this
Thanx really usefull :)
Essential reading for the uninitiated
But the biggest problem is it's too easy to get carried away with whistles and bells trying to cover up a critical lack of interesting relevant content to readers.
We know WRITING BLOG & STEEMIT are the most powerful tags/ categories to earn upvotes in for the least replies/ views. Which means basically you have to write something. Pretty pictures just won't cut it if the content is not there.
Readers' time is more valuable than yours. Because they are the ones upvoting and resteeming you. Don't let them slip off the hook because as we KNOW - Attention Deficient Syndrome IS a pandemic.
Unless you got them they're gone
Thank you for the great information on Markdown. I am still really new to all of this and Markdown is a mystery. This helps a ton in getting me going in the right direction. Thank you again.
Nice share
Thanks! Helpful. Do you also know what you should do to underline?
I believe it is not possible in Markup to underline some text.
Nice! That’s usefull!!
Thank you for the great information on Markdown, please vote me.
Thanks for your explanation! I've resteemed this very useful blog post.