When developing a website it is usually recommended that the structure and content of a site remain separated. Having it organized in this fashion makes it easy for us to edit the ever changing content of a site, without having to get involved with it's relatively static structure every time we do so.
The Assemble framework comes bundled with a library that implements the Markdown text formatting syntax; this allows us to easily create content documents with a minimal structure that is rendered to well-formed HTML.
You can read more about the Markdown syntax at following the URL:
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
In this recipe we'll continue working on the project from the Adding a page to the site recipe in this chapter. Be sure to refer to it if you are not yet familiar with its contents. Before we start we should also make sure that the site builder and server are running. If they aren't yet running they can be started using the grunt...