Format Your Steemit Articles And Gain Steem Power!

USING SOME SIMPLE FORMAT RULES AND THE FREE STACKEDIT WEB TOOL, YOU CAN CREATE BROADLY PREPARED STEEMIT ITEMS. THIS ARTICLE IS INTENDED FOR THOSE WHO ARE NEW IN STEEMIT AND HAVE HAD NONE OF ANY EXPERIENCE OF CODING OR USE OF A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

THIS ARTICLE IS INTENDED FOR THOSE WHO ARE NEW IN STEEMIT AND HAVE HAD TOO LITTLE OR NO EXPERIENCE OF CODING OR USING A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS), OR BLOGS IN GENERAL. AFTER READING THIS YOU MAY ADD THE CODE MANUALLY OR AUTOMATICALLY AND UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE GOOD FORMAT.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

THE FORMAT AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT

HOW TO GIVE FORMAT TO A STEEMIT ARTICLE

USE OF MARKDOWN TO FORMAT STEEMIT'S ITEMS

HOW TO USE STACKEDIT TO IMPLEMENT MARKDOWN

FORMATTING AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT

WHEN WE SPEAK FORMAT IN RELATION TO COMPUTER DOCUMENTS, THEY MEAN ONE OF TWO THINGS. IF ASKED IN WHAT FORMAT IS A DOCUMENT IN PARTICULAR; THE ANSWER WILL DEPEND ON THE PROGRAM IN WHICH IT HAS BEEN MADE, SO WORD, NOTE, ADOBE .PDF AND SO HAPPENLY.

WHEN WE SPEAK ABOUT THE FORMAT OF A DOCUMENT, WE ARE REFERRING TO THE PAGE DISPOSITION OF THE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS WITHIN THE DOCUMENT.

IF YOU WANT TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL WRITER IN STEEMIT, THEN YOU WILL NEED A GOOD SCRIPTURE STYLE AND BE INFORMING AN EXTENDED TOPIC OR INTEREST. HOWEVER, IF YOUR WONDERFUL ARTICLE OF 1500 WORDS ABOUT THE MERITS OF BASE JUMP AND PARKOUR IS BADLY FORMATTED, THEN NOBODY WILL READ IT, OR WILL YOUR FRIENDS.

THIS IS WHAT I DO IF ONE OF MY FRIENDS SENDS ME A LINK TO AN ILLUSTRATED ARTICLE THAT MAY OR SHOULD NOT WRITE. I'M GOING TO BLOW THE FIRST 5 LINES AND THEN BROUGHT THE ITEM FOR AN POINT OF INTEREST, READ THESE LINE OR LINES AND THEN ANSWER MY FRIEND BY CITING THE POINT OF INTEREST, SO IT SEEMS LIKE IF I HAD READ IT.

THIS IS WHAT I DO IF ONE OF MY FRIENDS SENDS ME A GOOD FORMAT ITEM; I READ IT.

FOR SO MUCH I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT I'M UNIQUE AND SPECIAL, I'M NOT AND I WILL NOT BE THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS THIS TYPE OF POLITICS WITH MAL FORMATED ITEMS.

IF YOU HAVE JOINED STEEM TO BECOME A COLLABORATOR AND YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY WHILE WRITTEN, YOU NEED AS MANY UPVOTES BY ITEM AS POSSIBLE. THE PROBLEM IS THAT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET MANY VOWS, IF NO ONE READS TO THE END OF YOUR ITEMS.

YOU COULD FINISH BASHING AWAY FOR MONTHS, ASKING WHY YOUR ITEMS ARE NOT DOING VERY WELL, WHEN OTHER PEOPLE WRITING ABOUT THE SAME THINGS THAT YOU, ARE LOOKING TO BE HAVING HUNDREDS OR EVEN THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS PER ITEM.

HOW TO FORMAT A STEEMIT ARTICLE

IF YOU ARE WRITING AN ITEM ABOUT STEEMIT OR AN EMAIL TO YOUR FRIEND, YOU SHOULD ALWAYS USE THE PROPER FORMAT.

ALWAYS ADD A SUMMARY TO YOUR ITEM: WHEN YOU PRESS THE BUTTON YOU SEND AN ARTICLE, YOU WILL SEE A SPACE TO ADD A SUMMARY, USE IT. YOUR SUMMARY WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY ADDED TO THE TOP OF YOUR PUBLICATION AND WILL BE VISIBLE TO USERS WHEN BROWSING.

YOU CAN STILL ADD A SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE IN THE REAL PUBLICATION, BUT MAKE SURE THAT IT WILL COME WITH WHAT IT SAID IN THE ORIGINAL SUMMARY AND PUT THE NEW IN CURSIVE.

UTILIZE SUBTITLES: IT IS IMPORTANT TO USE SUBTITLES AS IT MAKES EASIER FOR YOUR READER TO NAVIGATE FOR YOUR ITEM. A READER CAN FIND HIS ARTICLE THROUGH GOOGLE AND ONLY BE INTERESTED IN A PARTICULAR PARAGRAPH OR PHRASE THAT HAS WRITTEN. THE SUBTITLES WILL HELP YOU FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR QUICKLY AND YOU CAN TRY THEM TO READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE, WHILE NOT BEING ABLE TO FIND WHAT YOU WANT, IT WILL SIMPLY GO TO ANOTHER PART.

YOU CAN USE THEM HERE, BOLD TEXT, FOLLOWED BY TWO POINTS AND AFTER THE PARAGRAPH, OR YOU CAN RETURN THE PARAGRAPH UNDER THE HEADER, BOTH WAYS OF WORK.

USE HEADERS: NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH SUBTITLES; HEADINGS ARE BIGGER IN THE TEXT OF THE NORMAL, BUT SMALLER THAN THE HEADER OF THE MAIN TITLE.

HEADINGS ARE A GOOD WAY TO DIVIDE LONG ARTICLES IN SECTIONS. EVEN IF YOU DO NOT THINK ABOUT HEAD NAMES AS YOU WERE WRITING THE ITEM, LOOK THROUGH THROUGH IT AND SEE IF YOU CAN BREAK WITH A HEADER OR TWO.

USING SEMI-COLONE: SEMI-COLON NOT JUST BREAK THE TEXT FLOW, BUT HELP TEMPORARILY JUMP TO A POINT WHILE IT REMAINS WITHIN YOUR ORIGINAL THEME.

FOR EXAMPLE:

"THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SILICON VALLEY HAVE CREATED A LOT OF RICH INDIVIDUALS, DIFFERENT FROM THE PUNTOCOM BUBBLE IN THE YEARS 2000, WHICH HAS SEEN FORTUNES TO FALL AS SOON AS THEY UP, THESE CURRENT PROGRESS ARE PROMPTING MUCH MORE."

ALSO USE POINTS AND COMAS IF YOU ARE CITING SOMEONE IN THE MIDST OF A PRAYER.

FOR EXAMPLE:

WHEN STEVE JOBS GETTING BETTER WITH BILL GATES, HE LOOKED AT HIS ACCOUNT AND ASKED HIM:

"HEY FRIEND, DO YOU NEED A DOLLAR FOR A COFFEE?"

ALWAYS PLACE VOICE QUOTES ON SEPARATE LINES IN ITALICS: PUTTING A QUICK QUOTE ON THE SAME LINE IN A PRAYER IS FORGIVING. HOWEVER, PUTING QUOTES OF MORE THAN ONE PERSON, OR CITING A CONVERSATION WITHOUT SEPARATING THE LINES OF EXPRESSION IS NOT. YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR READERS TO START LOSING THE TRACK WHERE THEY ARE, OR HAVE TO READ THE PRAYERS 2 OR 3 TIMES BEFORE GETTING THE MEANING.

DO NOT USE THE SAME PHRASES OR WORDS IN THE CORRESPONDING PARAGRAPHS: ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS NOT FATIGATING YOUR READER, IF YOU USE THE SAME TERM MANY TIMES, IT MAY CAUSE THE READER TO LOSE YOUR PLACE AND / OR GET A MINI DÉJÀ VU.

PAY ATTENTION TO THE WORD PLACEMENT: SIMILAR TO THE PREVIOUS POINT, BUT NOT COMPLETELY, IT IS ALSO NOT TO REPEAT WITH TOO MUCH FREQUENCY, AS WELL, DO NOT USE THE SAME WORD TOO NEAR A POINT IN WHICH YOU USED BEFORE. IN THIS CASE, YOU CAN USE A WORD ONLY TWICE, BUT IT SEEMS MUCH MORE DUE TO ITS LOCATION.

FOR EXAMPLE:

WHEN I WRITE A PRAYER AND I DO NOT WANT TO FATIGATE THE READER, THE LAST THAT I WANT TO USE IS PRAYER, ALMOST AT THE SAME PLACE WHERE THE USE IS ABOVE.

YOU CAN GET AROUND THERE THROUGH ADDING OR ABDUCTING WORDS SO THAT THE WORDS DO NOT APPEAR AT THE SAME PLACE.

FOR EXAMPLE:

IF I AM WRITING A PRAYER ON THE FORMAT AND I DO NOT WANT TO FATIGATE MY READERS, THE LAST THING I WANT TO DO IS SHOOT ON THE FOOT USING THE PHRASE WORD ALMOST IN THE SAME PLACE THAT GOES UP.

OR IF IT IS NOT SUITABLE, USE A DIFFERENT WORD.

FOR EXAMPLE:

IF I AM WRITING A PRAYER AND I DO NOT WANT TO FATIGATE THE READER, THE LAST THING I WANT TO DO IS TO USE THE SAME PHRASE BEFORE.

AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE FIRST EXAMPLE, USING THE PHRASE WORD ALMOST DIRECTLY BELOW THAT IT DOES NOT LOOK WELL AND IN A BIGGEST PARAGRAPH, IT CAN MAKE THE USER'S EYE DERIVE AND RELEASE A PRAYER. REMEMBER, IT MAY CAUSE THE SAME EFFECT BY INITIATING TWO CONSECUTIVE PARAGRAPHS WITH THE SAME WORD OR PHRASE, SO BE CAREFUL WITH THAT ALSO.

MAKE YOUR PARAGRAPHS DIFFERENT VARYING LINE NUMBERS: IT IS EASY; ESPECIALLY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SCRIPTURE, USE THE SAME AMOUNT OF LINES IN EACH PARAGRAPH. THIS HAPPENS UNCONSCIOUSLY, SO IT IS IMPORTANT TO READ WHAT HAS WRITTEN SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE PUBLISHING. IF YOU OBSERVE THAT YOU HAVE USED THE SAME AMOUNT OF LINES IN THE MAJORITY OR IN ALL YOUR PARAGRAPHS, RETURN TO SOLVE IT.

TEXTS WITH A RECURRENT AMOUNT OF PARAGRAPHS OF THE SAME SIZE, THEY HAVE TO BE CONTRACTS OR OTHER LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND UNLESS YOU ARE A PARALEGAL, THIS STYLE WILL SEND YOU TO SLEEP, SO AVOID IT AS THE PLAGUE.

USE IMAGES: YOU MUST USE IMAGES WHEREVER YOU CAN, USE THEM IN TWO WAYS, LIKE A HEADING IMAGE OR LIKE A CIRCUIT IMAGE.

AS YOU WILL SEE WHEN YOU USE MARKDOWN, YOU WILL ADD IMAGES TO STEEMIT'S MESSAGES BY CALLING DIRECTLY TO THE URL OF THE IMAGE (WEB ADDRESS), WHICH MEANS THAT IT IS RESTRICTED BY THE SIZE OF THE IMAGE.

SO WHEN YOU ARE CHOOSING A HEADER IMAGE (THE IMAGE READERS WILL SEE WHEN THE NAVIGATION MESSAGES), YOU CAN USE IMAGES OF GREAT SIZE, AS YOUR SUMMARY WILL BE ABOVE THE PICTURE. HOWEVER, FOR CIRCUIT IMAGES, HAVING A TOO LARGE IMAGE IS NOT GOOD, AS IT SEEMS DISORDERED AND CAN PLAY WITH THE READER.

THEN, WHEN SEARCHING CIRCUIT IMAGES, USE THE MINIATURE TERMINATION AFTER WRITING WHAT IMAGE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR. I HAVE NOT USED IMAGES FOR THIS ITEM, BECAUSE THIS KIND OF INFORMATION ITEM CAN BE FOUND WITHOUT THEM. HOWEVER, IF YOU WATCH MY OPINION PIECE HERE, YOU WILL SEE THAT I HAVE USED THE SWITCH IMAGES TO THE END.

FOR SO MUCH THAT I LIKE MY EGO TO BE POINTED, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO READ 2,500 WORDS OF MY OPINION, THAT TO READ THE SAME AMOUNT OF WORDS, GIVING DEFINED ADVICE, PRESENTED IN SECTIONS.

USE OF MARKDOWN TO FORMAT STEEMIT'S ITEMS

EVERY TIME YOU WANT TO SEND A PUBLICATION, OR ANSWER A COMMENT OR MESSAGE, YOU WILL SEE THE WORDS;

"THE STYLE WITH MARKDOWN IS COMPATIBLE" THERE ARE OTHER RESOURCES THERE IF YOU REALLY WANT, HOWEVER YOU WILL HAVE ENOUGH TO FOLLOW ON THE USE OF THE PREVIOUS LINK.

IF YOU WILL ENTER THE MARKDOWN CODE IN YOUR ITEM MANUALLY, THEN THE BEST YOU CAN DO - IF YOU ARE NOT DOING IT NOW - IS WRITING YOUR ITEM IN AN INDEPENDENT WORD DOCUMENT, OR ANY TEXT PROCESSING SOFTWARE THAT YOU USE. ONCE YOU HAVE COMPLETED ADDING YOUR CODE, JUST COPY AND PICK AS A TEXT WITHOUT FORMAT IN THE STEEMIT MAILBOX.

REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU'RE PUBLISHING, IF YOU SHIFT DOWN AND LOOK UNDER THE MAILBOX, YOU'LL SEE A PRIOR VIEW OF WHAT YOUR ITEM WILL BE CHECKED BEFORE SENDING IT. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY PRACTICAL AS YOU CAN SEE IF YOU HAVE COMMITTED ANY ERROR IN THE CODE, IF YOU HAVE, BE SURE TO CORRECT THE ERROR IN THE WORD DOCUMENT AND THEN COPY AND GET AGAIN. MAKING IT IN THIS WAY IS MUCH MORE LIKELY THAN TREAT TO CORRECT YOUR ERROR IN THE STEEMIT MAILBOX, AS IT IS ENOUGH TO SMALL AND FIDDLY.

HOW TO USE STACKEDIT TO IMPLEMENT MARKDOWN

STACKEDIT EDITOR IS A WONDERFUL AND FREE ONLINE TOOL THAT CAN EASILY IMPLEMENT THE MARKDOWN CODE FOR YOU. ALTHOUGH YOU DO NOT COVER TO USE, YOU WOULD HELP YOU BEGIN AN ACCOUNT FOR THE MAIN SUM OF $ 5 PER YEAR. BY MAKING THIS YOU ARE SUPPORTING A GREAT SERVICE AND of course you can save your work, if you only use it once, it is still worth it.

WHAT IS GREAT ABOUT STACKEDIT IS THAT IT IS REAL TIME AND BECAUSE YOU ADD IMAGES AND CHANGE TEXT, YOU CAN VERIFY YOUR CHANGES WITHOUT HAVING TO WAIT FOR ANY RENDERING OR LOADING TIMES.

THE FIRST PAGE YOU WILL SEE IS A DUMMY ITEM THAT GIVES YOU A BASIC TUTORIAL, YOU CAN READ THIS OR YOU CAN CLEAR IT AND BEGIN YOUR OWN ITEM. BEST EVEN, YOU CAN GO TO THE TOP RIGHT OF THE SCREEN AND CLICK ON THE FOLDER, THAT WILL GIVE YOU THE OPTION TO START A NEW ITEM, SO THAT YOU CAN KEEP THE DUMMY, ITEM TUTORIAL MUST NEED IT ..

ON THE SIDE OF THE LEFT HAND, YOU WILL SEE A COMPLETE TOOLBAR OF SYMBOLS, AT THE TOP OF THE EDITOR. THESE SYMBOLS WILL GIVE YOU THE EFFECT YOU WANT, WITHOUT HAVING TO ADD THE CODE MANUALLY. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT A SYMBOL MEANS, THEN SIMPLY MANAGE YOUR MOUSE ABOUT IT.

ONCE YOU MAKE IT, YOU CAN SAVE YOUR JOB IF YOU WANT, AND THEN SIMPLY COPY YOUR STACKEDIT EDITOR TEXT AND PASTE IN YOUR STEEMIT POST BOX. AS BEFORE YOU GO TO SEE A PRIOR VIEW, LOCATED BELOW THE BOX, SO THAT YOU CAN MAKE SURE ALL THE CODE HAS BEEN CALLED.

IF THERE ARE ERRORS IN THE CODE, CHECK WHERE THEY ARE, RETURN TO THE EDITOR, FIND THE ERROR AND FIX IT THERE. THEN COPY AND PUT BACK AGAIN. UNLESS THE ERROR IS A SIMPLE TO REPAIR AND IS WELL IN THE TOP OF YOUR POST, THEN DO NOT USE THE STEEMIT BACK BOX TO EDIT, LIFE IS VERY SHORT.

ONCE YOU ARE DONE, GIVE YOUR POST TO STEEMIT; THE MAIN THING TO REMEMBER WITH STACKEDIT, IS THAT IT DOES NOT SEEM TO WORK TOO MUCH, WHEN IT IS MIXED MANUALLY ADDED AND AUTOMATIC CODE TOGETHER.

FOR EXAMPLE I WRITE AN ARTICLE AND BEFORE USING THE STACKEDIT TOOL TO ADD A HEADING; AS I HAD OTHER ELEMENTS, I MANUALLY INSERTED THE CODE, THAT WAS ####. HOWEVER AFTER COPYING AND PASSING IN STEEMIT, THE # SYMBOL WAS STILL VISIBLE, THAT HOW IT SHOULD NOT BE.

IT COULD HAVE BEEN BECAUSE STACKEDIT USES A DIFFERENT FORM TO BUILD YOUR HEADS, OR IT MAY BE BECAUSE IT DOES NOT LIKE MANUAL AND AUTOMATIC CODE PROCESSING AT THE SAME TIME. IF YOU HAVE ANY EXPERIMENT REQUIRED WITH IT, ADDING YOUR OWN CODE BITS AND THEN PASSING IN THE STEEMIT POST BOX AND FORECAST BEFORE SENDING IT.

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