This is where you put a little blurb about yourself, and what this blog is about.
But until you have content you want to include on this page, feel free to check out the HTML formatting tips below.
HTML styling tips for you
Below are a few common HTML styling tips that you'll want to use when writing blog posts. HTML is a very simple markup language that works pretty much everywhere on the Web. It's worth your time to become familiar with basic HTML formatting.
You can delete this text from the "about.html" file in your site when you're writing up your own About page.
Images
If you want to insert an image into a page or post, use the following HTML code:
It will then be displayed like so:
This code tells the browser to find the local file called "kitteh.jpg" in the "/img/" folder of your site, and display it as a image on the page. You can also display images that are hosted somewhere else on the Web by replacing the "/img/kitteh.jpg" with a link to an image somewhere else.
For example, an image you want to put on a page or post is viewable on another website like "http://i.imgur.com/SSTWO4Z.jpg". Go ahead and grab the link (make sure it is a link to an image, not a page!) and use it in the page HTML like this:
And voila:
Bolds, italics, underlines
You can easily add formatting to your text such as bold lettering, italics, and underlines to emphasize certain parts of your writing.
To make text bold, simply wrap words with code like this:
The text will then be rendered in your page like this:
bold text!
Similarly, wrap words with code like this for italics:
And it will be rendered like this:
italicized text!
Lastly, underlines can be used like this:
And it will be rendered like this:
Underlined text!
Seems simple enough, right? There's lots more you can do, but those are the more common HTML stying codes you'll want for writing blog posts in HTML.
More HTML help
Want some more guidance? Mozilla has a nice HTML cheat sheet that covers all of the more common HTML elements and formatting styles you may want to use. Check it out here: https://mozteach.makes.org/thimble/html-cheatsheet
Don't forget to delete all this HTML helper text when you make your About page. It will live on at the main Github repo here: https://github.com/billymeinke/ltec-647c-blog-jekyll/blob/gh-pages/about.html.