But first...

We don't want to have to write our whole blog in tedious HTML!

Let's have a quick look at markdown

  # Markdown
  This is markdown. 
  It's a special way to write text that is easy to read in plain text format and easily converted to HTML by computers.

  # This turns into a <h1>top level Header Tag<h1/>

  ## This turns into a <h2>top level Header Tag<h2/>


  Let's look at the Github Markdown Guide