![]() Front matter provides information about the web page’s presentation and structure (title, layout, page order in a list, etc.). In preparation for this, you will want to add some front matter to your markdown file. In Lesson 3, you will use GitHub Pages and a program called jekyll to turn your markdown files into web pages. Add content to index.md Add a title and front matter GitHub uses Markdown for its documents (this document was created in markdown), as does a variety of other web platforms (Reddit and Trello, as examples). For much of the writing that you do for the web, Markdown is good enough. It’s also very readable in its plain text format, which is nice. Since it’s pretty much just plain text, it’s transferrable and much simpler than marked-up text like HTML or even Word or Google documents. Markdown uses simple notation to apply simple formatting rules. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *. You control the display of the document formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown. Markdown is a way to style text on the web.
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