diff --git a/markdown.html.markdown b/markdown.html.markdown
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--- a/markdown.html.markdown
+++ b/markdown.html.markdown
@@ -2,45 +2,53 @@
language: markdown
contributors:
- ["Dan Turkel", "http://danturkel.com/"]
+ - ["Jacob Ward", "http://github.com/JacobCWard/"]
filename: markdown.md
---
+
Markdown was created by John Gruber in 2004. It's meant to be an easy to read and write syntax which converts easily to HTML (and now many other formats as well).
-Give me as much feedback as you want! / Feel free to fork and pull request!
-
-
-```markdown
-
+element's contents.
-
+specific to a certain parser.
-
-
+- [Headings](#headings)
+- [Simple Text Styles](#simple-text-styles)
+
+## Headings
+
+You can create HTML elements `
` through `` easily by prepending the
+text you want to be in that element by a number of hashes (#).
+
+```markdown
# This is an
## This is an
### This is an
#### This is an
##### This is an
###### This is an
+```
+Markdown also provides us with two alternative ways of indicating h1 and h2.
-
+```markdown
This is an h1
=============
This is an h2
-------------
+```
+## Simple text styles
-
-
+Text can be easily styled as italic or bold using markdown.
+```markdown
*This text is in italics.*
_And so is this text._
@@ -50,10 +58,11 @@ __And so is this text.__
***This text is in both.***
**_As is this!_**
*__And this!__*
+```
-
-
+In Github Flavored Markdown, which is used to render markdown files on
+Github, we also have strikethrough:
+```markdown
~~This text is rendered with strikethrough.~~