Hello Steemit community!

As Steemit supports Markdown I've decided to post a small guide for beginners here.

So what is Markdown?

Markdown is a way to style text on the web. You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *.

Headers

# This is an 
 tag
## This is an 
 tag
###### This is an 
 tag

Emphasis

*This text will be italic*
_This will also be italic_

**This text will be bold**
__This will also be bold__

_You **can** combine them_

Lists

Unordered

* Item 1
* Item 2
  * Item 2a
  * Item 2b

Ordered

1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
   * Item 3a
   * Item 3b

Images

![GitHub Logo](/images/logo.png)
Format: ![Alt Text](url)

Links

http://github.com - automatic!
[GitHub](http://github.com)

Blockquotes

As Kanye West said:

> We're living the future so
> the present is our past.

Inline code

I think you should use an
`` element here instead.

Markdown Editors

There're markdown editors almost for all platforms

Windows: Markdownpad

Mac: MacDown

Linux: Remarkable

And there're also a lot of web-based editors.

Thanks a lot, hope you found this article quite helpful!

P.S. Material was mainly taken from guides.github.com