A way to stand out in the hive blogging platforms is to make your content readable. In fact, the entire blogging world focuses equally on the readability as quality— from Google to your next-door neighbour, everyone loves to read and appreciate that’s easily readable to the readers.
However, readability in Hive largely depends on how you present your content— not necessarily it has to be in the plainest language that Google prefers when considering it as quality content, but, the way you break the paragraphs down makes a huge difference.
From my early ages in Hive Blockchain and BDCommunity, I was always fascinated by the presentation style of our beloved @Rehan12 bro. In fact, he is the only person to use a plethora of styling within his writing in this community, and to be honest, my inspiration has come directly from him.
Even though I am not a master presenter and most of my content looks cluttered, I try to allow the readers to rest while scrolling through my writings.
And in this case, I follow Hive markdown styling guide to use outstanding features that make the writing more enticing and visually pleasant.
You’ll find numerous sources where good writers have shown numerous ways you can design your content, however, I will be discussing only the most popular ones that serve the purposes of average designing.
To bold a line/word, do this—
**This will be bold**
Result:
This will be bold
Remember to omit any space before or after the text.
To Italicise a line/word, do this—
*This will be Italic*
Result:
This will be Italic
Again, no space before or after the text.
To strikethrough a line/word, do this—
~~This will be strikedthrough~~
Result:
This will be strikedthrough
To add a heading (H1, H2…….), use # sign with a space right after the symbol.
For example,
# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4
##### Heading 5
###### Heading 6
Result:
The number of hashes will determine the Heading tag and you can add up to the H6 tag; not more than that.
To insert a link or hyperlink a text, do this—
[My Hive Account](https://ecency.com/@r-nyn/posts)
Result:
My Hive Account
To quote a line/word, do this—
> Allah, the most merciful!
Result:
Allah, the most merciful!
To make a list, do this—
* Hello
* Hola
* As-salamu alaykum
Result:
To make a numbered list, do this—
1. One
2. Two
3. Three
Result:
To separate a section from others, use this—
— (press hyphen or underscore 3 times before and after the sentence to add 2 horizontal lines above and below the sentence)
Result:
This section will be separated
To add inline code, do this—
`Is this helpful to you?`
Result:
Is this helpful to you?
To create a code block, use( ` )sign three times(```) before and after a sentence and you'll get a result like below—
I’ve been using this the whole time.
To create a table, do this—
|column1|column2|column3|
|-|-|-|
|It’s Cold|It’s Hot|It’s Moderate|
Result:
| column1 | column2 | column3 |
|---|---|---|
| It’s Cold | It’s Hot | It’s Moderate |
To centre your text, do this—
<center>This will be centered</center>
Result:
To underline your text, do this—
<ins>This is the End</ins>
Result:
This is the End
Well, I have mentioned some of the most common styling guides we may need daily when righting a post. There are many advanced styling guides that you will find in the Markdown Styling Guide mentioned at the beginning of the post. Besides, if you are using Ecency, you will find some designing features preloaded with the interface. But for advanced features, learning the styling guide is necessary.
Hope you find this useful.
Good luck and show me what you’ve learned in the comment section. [styling also works in the comments]
[psst...I am still learning, see those red letters, I don't know why they are here 😅]