Hey there,

to create blog posts here on steemit you can use Markdown. This is a simplified markup language, which has been developed by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz. Markdown version 1.0.1 got published in December 2004.

But what can you do with markdown, and why should you use it?
That is a good question^^. Markdown is an easy language for styling your text. When you write something in Markdown you can translate it to a .pdf or to a Microsoft Words file.

But let's start with a description of the main ways to style your blog post!

The first thing most of you may have been recognized is, that if you type text, this text is shown in your blog post later.
I know, that this is very obvious.

In Markdown, you can also style your text bold, italic and bold and italic. There are to ways to do this:

you can frame your words with these two symbols: * or _

if you use one, you will get your text italic
- *italic*or _italic_= italic

if you use two, your text will get bold
- **bold** or __bold__ = bold

and when you use three, your text gets bold and italic
- ***bold and italic or ___bold and italic___ = bold and italic

You've also seen, that it is also possible, to mark your text as "inline-sourcecode"
You can do this, when you frame your text with this symbol: `

If you want to create a whole code-block you can indent your text with four blanks

Then it looks like this

It is also possible to create ordered and unordered lists

You will get an unordered list, if you indent your text with two blanks, then type * and another blank. To get under points you need to add four more blanks before the *
* This is a point in an unordered list
* This is another point in an unordered list
* Oh here's an under point<-- there are 4 more blanks but it is not shown... believe me ;) (or try it!)
* By the way instead of * also + and - will work

This is a point in an unordered list
This is another point in an unordered list
- Oh here's an under point
By the way instead of * also + and - will work

Ordered lists are as easy as unordered lists

Just use instead of *, + or - numbers
It is not necessary to order these numbers, just use the one you like ;)

1. The first one
1.1 Nearly two <-- and again ;) (in this case: the number is important)
2. Number two

The first one
1.1 Nearly two
Number two

It is also possible to create headlines. You just need to add # before your headline.
# Headline 1
##### Headline 5

Headline 1

Headline 5

You want to quote? No problem that's not hard!

Just put > before your quote..

> e = mc²

e = mc²

I hope, that this post will help you when you style your blog posts. When I saw, that you can style your steemit-posts with Markdown I started to renew my know about Markdown. And I thought, that it could be useful to share this with you.

It would be quite nice if you also watch my other posts, even if there are not very much..

I don't know what my next posts are about. Maybe another video on d.tube. About photography, or maybe another song-cover. Let me know what you think about this and my other posts.

Best wishes,
MarcT

How to use Markdown | Ecency