STRUCTURING YOUR POSTS

I'm by no means a Steemit guru.

However, I would like to think I can help many users. I have seen so many Steemit posts with little to no structure or formatting. So many posts with great content are getting overlooked due to bad formatting.

Steemit uses Markdown Styling to enable you to format and structure your posts. Markdown Styling is not overly used on many other Blog platforms, so I'm sure many Steemians don't understand it.

Allow me to show you some basics that will monumentally improve the readability of your Steemit posts.

Let's start with the very basics. Even as basic as making text Bold or Italic will help.

Bold
Inserting 2 asterisks either side of text will make it bold
Italic
Inserting 1 asterisk either side of text will make it italic
Lists
Use an asterisk as a bullet point followed by a space then text to create a list
for example:
*item 1
*item 2
*Item 3
This is what is created:

• item 1
• Item 2
• item 3

Dividers
Using a 'Divider' (like the one above) can help separate sections within your writing.

type < hr> to insert a divider
Headings and Subheadings

< h1>This is a Heading
< h2>This is a Sub-Heading

This is a Heading

This is a Sub-Heading

There are some more features within the Markdwon Stlyes that can help format your posts.

Quotes

By inserting a '>' before a line of text this formats it as a quote

• David
  This is the outcome:

By inserting a '>' before a line of text this formats it as a quote
David

Tables
You can create tables by assembling a list of words and dividing them with hyphens - (for the first row), and then separating each column with a pipe |:

First Header	Second Header
Content from cell 1	Content from cell 2
Content in the first column	Content in the second column

This is the outcome:

First Header Second Header
Content from cell 1 Content from cell 2
Content in the first column Content in the second column

---

Hopefully I have managed to help some Steemians to structure your posts :)

If you have any other tips please leave them below.

Please upvote if you found this helpful