Markdown is a plain text file format for writing web-pages and other documents. Files written like this can be easily coverted into HTML which every web browser (firefox, Internet Exporer, etc) understands.
A **plain text format** is any format that can be human read without any modification to the file. Such as .txt .html .svg , and most programming files. Files like this are easy for anyone to without the need for specialist software.
Markdown is simpler to use than HTML, because it was designed for humans to be able to read, whether or not it has been processed. For this reason, I have chosen to build this “Web Host” to primarily work with markdown files.
To show the difference here is a peek at some basic markdown code.
Hello
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Today we will be learning about 3 things:
* Markdown
* File Structure
* Editing
Becomes:
Today we will be learning about 3 things:
The HTML equivilent is:
<h2>Hello</h2>
<p>Today we will be learning about 3 things:<p>
<ul>
<li>Markdown</li>
<li>File Structure</li>
<li>Editing</li>
<ul>
Hopefully you will agree the markdown is easier to read. Though there are a few things you will want to learn if you are going to be writing lots of markdown.