MinnowBooster Markdown Guide: Basic Markdown Language (Part 1)

[minnowbooster]

---

Hey guys @steembusiness here presenting the first part of our "MinnowBooster Markdown Guide". It includes basic knowledge on how to style your Steem blog and it will hopefully be of great use to you on your way to becoming a popular and more successful blogger!

Basic Markdown for Steemit

Headings

Headings are quite easily created, even in different sizes, which allow you to create several sub-sections in your posts. While the #-tag can only be used at the beginning of a line you may set the heading at any place using these guys <>.

• Input (#): # Heading H1 (Biggest)

• Input (<h1>): <h1>Heading H1 (Biggest)</h1>

• Output:

  Heading H1 (Biggest)

• Input (#): # Heading H6 (Smallest)

• Input (<h6>): <h6>Heading H1 (Smallest)</h6>

• Output:

  Heading H6 (Smallest)

---

Bold Text

In order to make some parts of your text more visible you can simply wrap it into two asterix. That'll look like followed:

• Input: **Your Text Goes Here**
• Output: Your Text Goes Here

---

Italic Text

While two asterix will lead to a bold formatting you can as well just use one asterix to achieve an italic text style:

• Input: *Your Text Goes Here*
• Output: Your Text Goes Here

---

Fineprint

In case you like to cite your sources but would like to set it apart from your blog post itself, then some fineprint might just be the right thing for you:

• Input (<sub>): <sub>Some Fineprint</sub>
• Output: _{Some Fineprint}

---

Unordered Lists

An unorderd list can be achieved just the same way as in most text editors. You may just use a - followed by a space to create a list element:

• Input (-):
  - Item 1
- Item 2
-- Item 2a

That;ll look like followed:

• Item 1
• Item 2
  -- Item 2a

---

Ordered Lists

In case you prefer ordered lists you can easily use numbers to include them into your post:

• Input (1.):
  1. Item 1
2. Item 2
2a. Item 2a

That'll look like followed:

1. Item 1
2. Item 2
   2a. Item 2a

---

Embedded link

I would guess that you've already shared some links in one of your posts and might agree that an embedded one just like "click here" looks better than a full link, especially if it's a long one. So here's how you do it:

• Input: [Your Text](http://buildteam.io)
• Output: Your Text

---

Divider / Horizontal line

You might have noticed the horizontal lines that are used to separate different sections of this post. To achieve the same you simply have to put 3 asterix into a line: ***

---

Stuck? Let us know in the comments!

You've exactly followed the examples above but still can't quite figure something out or simply get stuck formatting this one single line? No worries, @BuildTeam is here to support you! Just leave us a comment on this post and we'll try to help you out!

(Please note that you can let us know your exact text entries by wrapping it into those guys here: `` [To be found in the upper left corner of your keyboard]. It'll show us your original entries and look like this: Markdown Text)

Once you have formatted your post to your satisfaction, you may want to head on over to Minnowbooster and get youself a vote to push your awesome creation onto the hot and trending pages of Steemit!

---

Visit our website for more info!	Subsribe to our YouTube Channel

Join our Discord Chat
Get support and connect with us and other Minnowbooster fans! We are always looking to improve @minnowbooster and try to keep you up-to-date whenever something changes. If you have any suggestions about what we should change or add to @minnowbooster, then please drop by and let us know!

Minnowbooster is a @buildteam project by
@thecryptodrive (witness), @cryptomancer and @reggaemuffin (witness)

---

_{This is a @steemvoter subscription payment post. Thank you to Steemvoter customers for allowing us to use your Steem accounts to upvote this post by virtue of your free subscription to the Steemvoter.com bot service. @steemvoter is proudly a @buildteam subsidiary and sister project to @steemsports and @minnowbooster.}

Comments

[steemreviews]

Would you like to leave a review about @minnowbooster?

	Be the first to write a review.

Did you find us helpful? Upvote this comment and 100% of proceeds go towards @hyperfundit.com and @hypefoundation to help steem projects and charities :)

[sarcanius]

Thanks for the info, this really helps a new content creator like myself, especially the embed link tutorial

[danur]

good information and very useful for me. I always support all existing projects. which can help small fish in steemit

[gvincentjosephm]

Thanks for the guide! It's very helpful specially for minnows here.

[murtaza78]

Good information you shared here that's really good way to writing contents

[newageinv]

Thia is great as I am still learning how to improve the look of my content. Is there one place that has the reference to all the markdowns? Or maybe a reference book? Thanks!

[reggaemuffin]

Markdown has multiple specifications and the one steem uses is different from the specifications others are using. The best style guide I know is from github: https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/

[mycoolway]

thanks for that :) its very useful for me. Now all my posts will be more pretty :D

[reggaemuffin]

Awesome, glad we can help :)

[mycoolway]

thanks :)

[uniquetips]

Thank you for this post. I am so happy for it now, may god help you to write more article

[mimi87]

This is an eye opener. I honestly ignored most of the points you outline here when making my blog post. I will use your strategies and I will be hopeful to get a positive result. Thanks for sharing this great article @minnowbooster

[zhitkov]

or you can use eSteem Surfer app for the same tasks :)
https://github.com/eSteemApp/esteem-surfer/releases

[fashionsteemit]

Thanks, this is really helpful

This comment was made from https://ulogs.org

[arcange]

Congratulations @minnowbooster!
Your post was mentioned in the Steemit Hit Parade in the following category:

• Upvotes - Ranked 4 with 1145 upvotes

[karimuddinn]

Thanks for minowbooster

[sc-steemit]

Side note on lists

- My First Item
- My Second Item
  - My First Subitem

Noteice the two spaces on the submitem. This will make it align as a subitem should.

This will render as follows

• My First Item
• My Second Item
  • My First Subitem

[yunik3]

There's a lot to learn here specially for a newbie like me. I'm glad that I found you @minnowbooster. You make things so easy. God bless! ♥ 👏

[steemitboard]

Congratulations @minnowbooster! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

Award for the number of upvotes

_{Click on the badge to view your Board of Honor.
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP}

Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard!

---

Participate in the SteemitBoard World Cup Contest!
Collect World Cup badges and win free SBD
Support the Gold Sponsors of the contest: @good-karma and @lukestokes

---

Do you like SteemitBoard's project? Then Vote for its witness and get one more award!

[drmoises]

GRACIAS POR LA INFORMACION

[cheryldlovejoy]

Thank you for this post. I am so happy for it now, may god help you to write more article

[praise-eu]

I am wondering how profitable it is to get $0.57 from 0.500 sbd bid I sent to you.

[fraenk]

Check this out:

Here's my latest discovery... you can do

red text

here, too...

<div>do <div class="phishy">red text</div> here</div>

you'll just have to pretend it's something "phishy" :P

[leeart]

How about inserting photos and resizing and also resizing fonts. I would like to insert a a photo aligned to the left/right with description below that photo. I can do that but I wanted to resize the font size of the description.

Btw, I have delegated 10 sp to @minnowbooster :)

This comment was made from https://ulogs.org

[josegaldame]

you say: Sorry, we could not upvote you with 10,000 SBD ⇒ $ 15.29. Our website https://www.minnowbooster.net has a graph with what it sends are currently working, refunding request with id: xxxxxx
How do I recover the 10SBD?

[josegaldame]

you say: Sorry, we could not upvote you with 10,000 SBD ⇒ $ 15.29. Our website https://www.minnowbooster.net has a graph with what it sends are currently working, refunding request with id: 132.
How do I recover the 10SBD?

[misterbauchi]

Thanks for the heads up @minnowbooster.

_{thank you}

[roger5120]

Cool markdown tutorial. Thank you

[valeria22]

buena informacion gracias..

[drmoises]

valeria22 vote por ti vota por mi y asi nos ayudamos estas de acuerdo tambien voy a tu block a votar te parece cuenta conmigo