A Light intro to Markdown

Date: Fri 15 January 2016 By: Adi Ultra  # Category: programming

Tags : programming blog web

 

Markdown = Simpler HTML

Markdown created by the John Gruber, is simple text which is friendly to the eye and with an added benefit, it converts to HTML. Although not by itself, you need a program to convert it. But it is very easy to implement, read on. Many modern blogging services, forums related to programming, and Wikipedia itself, use markdown. Because its easy and plain.

Here's an example:

# This is first heading

Some paragraph text

## This is H2 tag
### H3, the first was H1
#### h4 and so on

    some code (indent the code);

Which gives:

This is first heading

Some paragraph text

This is H2 tag

H3, the first was H1

h4 and so on

some code (indent the code);


Setup

or it should have been no setup :p

You necessarily do not need anything to write in markdown other than a text editor, but since you might be intrested in publishing(blogging) in markdown, you can use any of the below

Markdown Blogging platforms/Websites

These are the sites with which you get a simple web interface, type in markdown, hit enter and your article goes live. If you need to really create your website then reach the next section.

Custom Blogs