Hi, My name is Andy Leverenz. I design, code, and am an author of things. Check out my agency called Couple of Creatives (https://coupleofcreatives.com) and my blog Web-Crunch (https://web-crunch.com)🤘🏻

Markdown is one of my favorite languages that really isn't even a language at all.

I not longer utilize WYSIWYG editors after learning markdown and I'm perfectly okay with that :)

📡 View The Lowdown on Markdown resource: https://web-crunch.com/resources/lowdown-markdown/

Check out my favorite editor Typora: https://typora.io

Why learn markdown?

Markdown is a lightweight solution to formatting content that gets generated to HTML. Any web page in existence is created with HTML in the end. If you need to author a blog post, a page full of content, a book, or even documentation you can do it all with markdown.

What's even better is that there are no autoformatting issues that some applications try to "make your life easier" with. In this video, I mentioned how Microsoft Word does a terrible job at copying and pasting text. If the text has any formatting whatsoever, Word tries its hardest to maintain that formatting. This feature alone makes me cringe.

Is Word all that bad? Not at all, but it is bloated with features, many of which I'll never utilize. Rather than work around those problems I sought to learn markdown to author content in the simplest way I could.

Markdown can be written using any type of application. Ideally, a markdown editor is a good choice to author inside simply because many editors offer syntax highlighting as well as a preview of the content in real time.

Key Benefits:

• Lean language - There's little to learn and it's quick to pick up
• Many FREE markdown editors to choose from
• If you build, design, and or utilize websites markdown has a place in your arsenal.
• Version control depends on Markdown for documentation. If you've ever visited a Github repo of some sort and read about it, you can thank markdown for that extra information as well as the author.

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