STRUCTURING YOUR POSTS

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I'm by no means a Steemit genius, however, I have seen so many Steemit posts with little to no structure or formatting. So many posts with great content are getting overlooked due to bad formatting.

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Steemit uses Markdown Styling to enable you to format and structure your posts. Markdown Styling is not overly used on many other Blog platforms, so I'm sure many Steemians don't understand it.

Allow me to show you some basics that will monumentally improve the readability of your Steemit posts.

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Let's start with the very basics. Even as basic as making text Bold or Italic will help.

Bold

**Inserting 2 asterisks either side of text will make it bold**

Italic

 *Inserting 1 asterisk either side of text will make it italic*

Lists

Use an asterisk as a bullet point followed by a space then text to create a list 
for example:
* item 1
* item 2
* Item 3

This is what is created:

• item 1
• Item 2
• item 3

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Dividers

Using a 'Divider' (like the one above) can help separate sections within your writing.

type <hr> to insert a divider

Headings and Subheadings

<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<h2>This is a Sub-Heading</h2>

This is a Heading

This is a Sub-Heading

There are some more features within the Markdwon Stlyes that can help format your posts.

Quotes

> By inserting a '>' before a line of text this formats it as a quote
>  -  SlayerKM

This is the outcome:

By inserting a '>' before a line of text this formats it as a quote
SlayerKM

Tables

You can create tables by assembling a list of words and dividing them with hyphens - (for the first row), and then separating each column with a pipe |:

First Header | Second Header
------------ | -------------
Content from cell 1 | Content from cell 2
Content in the first column | Content in the second column

This is the outcome:

First Header	Second Header
Content from cell 1	Content from cell 2
Content in the first column	Content in the second column

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Conclusion

Hopefully, this has helped you learn some easy methods to structure and format your writing to enable your Steemit posts to be more appealing to the reader's eyes.

If you have any other tips please leave them below.

Please upvote if you found this helpful 😜