An effective website must convey content to its readers through attractive formatting. Poor formatting can make a website unappealing or even unreadable. With Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), you ...

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others. The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only ...

See, these days I post a very occasional comment to Ars in article comments, not forums. I don't get the blindingly obvious formatting tag buttons that head the textarea here in the forum posts ...