Ok folks, you guys (AB, K …) write some interesting stuff, but you need to learn a little bit of formatting to help people read it with out straining their eyes. No offense, just a few simple things to learn to beautify your posts.

First, you should start using the “Edit Html” tab in Blogger instead of the “Compose” tab. At worst, you don’t use any HTML and it will look exactly the same as you are used to seeing.

HTML is a markup language. Think of it as writing a blob of text and then marking it with different colors/styles. So you write some text and then use tags to mark it up. For example, to bold some text, you would use <b> your text </b> and it will look like your text. Note that every tag has an ending tag and it’s a good practice to end every tag even though some tags don’t have ending tags.

Some commonly used tags while blogging.

Paragraphs: <p> </p>
Line break: <br />
Style:
  bold: <b> </b>
  italic: <i> </i>
  underline: <u> </u>
  colors: <font color="red"> </font>
Preformatted text: Usually used for verbatim listing <pre> </pre>
Quoting: <blockquote> </blockquote> Try this one, it's nice.
Lists: these are slightly complicated, so use the menu available
in the compose button to create them.

If you are writing large amounts of text, you can create headings of different sizes with <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> For example, H3 size heading looks like

A heading

That’s all for now, Blog away !!!

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