Update: this site is now statically served using Pelican. I had problems with my VPS provider and finally decided to simplify the management and opted for a statically generated website. Ghost was very light and did well its job, if I had a multi-user environment I would be sticking with it. I still keep all the content from the previous blog, including this post.

That’s just the welcome post of a succesful ghost installation. I like to keep it and have a look of what one can do with Markdown.

Down in the page, if for some reason you want to read it, you will find a broken image. Don’t worry, it’s meant to be so :)

What to say… Enjoy, and let’s hope that this blog and its theme will be of help to others!

You’re in! Nice. We’ve put together a little post to introduce you to the Ghost editor and get you started. Go ahead and edit this post to get going and learn how it all works!

# Getting Started

Writing in markdown is really easy. In the left hand panel of Ghost, you simply write as you normally would. Where appropriate, you can use formatting shortcuts to style your content. For example, a list:

  • Item number one
  • Item number two
    • A nested item
  • A final item

or with numbers!

  1. Remember to buy some milk
  2. Drink the milk
  3. Tweet that I remembered to buy the milk, and drank it

Want to link to a source? No problem. If you paste in url, like https://ghost.org - it’ll automatically be linked up. But if you want to customise your anchor text, you can do that too! Here’s a link to the Ghost website. Neat.

# What about Images?

Images work too! Already know the URL of the image you want to include in your article? Simply paste it in like this to make it show up:

The Ghost Logo

Not sure which image you want to use yet? That’s ok too. Leave yourself a descriptive placeholder and keep writing. Come back later and drag and drop the image in to upload:

![A bowl of bananas]

# Quoting

Sometimes a link isn’t enough, you want to quote someone on what they’ve said. It was probably very wisdomous. Is wisdomous a word? Find out in a future release when we introduce spellcheck! For now - it’s definitely a word.

Wisdomous - it’s definitely a word.

# Working with Code

Got a streak of geek? We’ve got you covered there, too. You can write inline <code> blocks really easily with back ticks. Want to show off something more comprehensive? 4 spaces of indentation gets you there.

.awesome-thing {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
}

# Ready for a Break?

Throw 3 or more dashes down on any new line and you’ve got yourself a fancy new divider. Aw yeah.

# Advanced Usage

There’s one fantastic secret about Markdown. If you want, you can write plain old HTML and it’ll still work! Very flexible.

That should be enough to get you started. Have fun - and let us know what you think :)