Help on Blog post formatting
The easiest way to format blog posts is to write them as though they were email messages. That is, write paragraphs, and leave a blank line to separate paragraphs.
If you're familiar with HTML, you can use it freely inside your posts. Otherwise, you can use Markdown, a shorthand we use to make HTML formatting easy. For blog posts, the most important things are links and lists.
Format lists of ingredients by putting asterisks in front of each element of the list, like this:
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 3
That will show up like this:
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Links have two elements, the text (the words you want to make clickable) and the destination (an URL, usually starting with "http://".) You can make HTML links like this: <a href="http://www.example.com">link text</a>
Or, to do Markdown links (much simpler), you just put the link text in square brackets, followed by the destination in parentheses, with no space in between them. So text like [Common Kitchen](http://www.commonkitchen.com) will look like Common Kitchen.
For more information on formatting text using Markdown, see the Markdown syntax reference.
