I, myself, am new to Steemit posting. I need some help, guidance, even pity on posting please.... At this point, I am a bit Frustrated and CONFUSED!! Let me tell you what I know and what I need so you can understand and hopefully help me, and I am guessing others just starting out as well.This post is in two parts:
I - The questions I am hoping someone will answer
II - How to Post on Steemit, a beginners outline.BOTTOM LINE QUESTIONS FOR ME?
- Is there a way to use the "editor" option so you can change fonts easily and ALSO have the Preview Box to see what you are posting before you post? OR must I choose one or the other?
- What formatting options are available and how do you use them?
- Can you make your text in different colors?
HOW TO POST BEGINNERS GUIDE (a beginners perspective)WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR FINAL POST VERSION TO LOOK LIKE??Me, myself? I love to make things pretty. SO I would like to make the content more interesting with different formatting choices such as different color fonts, bold, italic, underlining. I was very sad to find out that Microsoft Word shortcuts like Ctrl+B to bold text did not work here. I also have not found color font options?
(Thank goodness copy, cut, and paste work the same. Also, Home and End buttons on keyboard.)STEP ONE (1) - CLICK ON SUBMIT A STORY
I happily saw and clicked on the "submit a story" link at the top right of the screen to the left of the photo or image of you and ended up here in the big box in which I am now typing. So far, so good.STEP TWO (2) Fill in the 3 text boxes:TEXT BOXES
- Top for title
- Second large box for body of your post
- Bottom box to place your tags
STEP THREE (3) - THE BIGGIE...... ADD PICTURES, PROOF READ, EDIT, AND APPROVE YOUR POSTGOOD NEWS - there is a - PREVIEW and there is an EDITOR buttonBAD NEWS - I do not see that I can use them both at the same time????The PREVIEW allows you to see at the bottom of the page what your post will look like and I loved this!
I also saw an "editor" button at the right side of the page between the title and body boxes. When you click on this, you get a nice formatting bar that allows you to highlight text and bold, italic, strike through, number etc. Unfortunately, when I click on the editor, the preview goes away, and vice versa. I see no way to have both of these options...but hope springs eternal.MORE GOOD NEWS
Some Steemians are very helpful! I would like to publicly thank two such people:@crok who provided some guidance on how to make text italics, boldand/or Bold italic using 1, 2, or 3 the (*), respectively, before and after a word.
SO - USE YOUR ASTERISKs
One * before and after text = Italics
Two * before and after text = Bold
Three * before and after text = Italic BoldAND THANK YOU TO, on posting photos who explained that to post /upload a photo, you copy the embed code from the picture hosting site, he mentioned imgur, but I know there are others, like 500PX and Steemimg.[[[NOTE: I had to google search what a picture hosting website was, what an embed code was, and then I had to google how to find the embed code in the photo site I was going to use. So you new people out there like me, you may need to do that as well. ;) ]]]
STEP FOUR - POST!!!!I hope this helped others with the little beginners guider to posting. I also hope that others will reply with the answers to the questions on how to format your post better, prettier, and as easy as possible.Thanks in advance!
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