The Text Documents

The text documents are all in a plaintext format called “markdown.” They will end in “.md” — but they are just text files. These documents are best edited using Textedit to make sure that they stay as plaintext. Markdown allows for creating fields and styling in a plaintext format that can be easily converted to HTML without having to learn anything very complicated.

The basics are as such:

Bold.

Two asterisks on each side of a word or sentence will make it bold.
**bold** or **this whole sentence will be bold**
bold or this whole sentence will be bold

Italic.

One asterisk or one underscore on each side of a word will make it render in italics on the website.
*italic* or _italic_ or *this whole string of words will be italic*
italic or italic or this whole string of words will be italic

Links.

Links are made by first putting square brackets around the word — or string of words — you want to become the link. You then immediately put the actual URL that the link should go to in parentheses afterward.
[this is a link](http://www.rwdfoundation.org) or [Google](http://www.google.com/) or [this will take you to amazon](http://amazon.com/)
this is a link or Google or this will take you to amazon

Images.

The way the site is currently setup, you aren’t able to directly place images into any page. The images on the project pages are added dynamically — all you have to do is put images in the project’s folder and they will show up as designed. The other sections of the site are not setup to easily control the images as it was not deemed necessary during the build.

More information on Markdown can be found here