For many posts, straight forward text is sufficient. However, sometimes, you'll want to emphasis a word, create section headings or write a list. To do this, you will need to put some basic markup in your entry. I hope this brief and direct post tells you all that you need to know.

Bold - If you wish to write in bold letters, simply surround the word with <b>and </b>. When you preview or post your text the special tags, <b> and </b> will be hidden, and the word will be in bold. Go ahead and expirement, you can even use the comment form at the bottom of this entry.

Italicize - For a more subtle emphasis, you might try italics. Simply wrap the text you would like to italicize with <i and </i>. Again, you will be able to see the markup when editing the post, but when viewing the post, the text will be italicized and the markup will be hidden.

Lists Things get a little more complex when you want to make a bullet list. You'll need to mark the beginning and end of the list with <ul> and </ul>, UL stands for Unordered List, and you'll need to mark the beginning of every bullet with a <li>. Here is a sample list markup:

<ul>

• <li> first bullet
• <li> second bullet

</ul>

Line Breaks - Sometimes, you'll want to create more white space between lines and paragraphs. To tell the system to display this white space, simply include a <br> for every line you would like to add.