A few of you have already been brave enough to start experimenting with your home pages, but what you may not know is that there's a very powerful system built throughout mindat.org now that I call Mindat Markup Language.

It's very simple to use, you enter special codes as you're typing. They work like HTML codes, if you've ever used that, but they're special for mindat.org (some HTML codes work too).

So, if you wanted to mention in your home page that you are especially interested in Hexatestibopanickelite, wouldn't it be nicer to link to the page on mindat so people can find out what it is exactly? It's actually so easy to do. You just add <M> before the mineral name, and </M> afterwards. So you enter:

<M>hexatestibiopanickelite</M>

And it will appear like this - hexatestibiopanickelite, so people can read up about your favourite and difficult to remember minerals.

We have lots of other codes for doing everything from embedding photos and videos to displaying chemical formulae in a nice way. You can read up more about this by viewing this article:


Full List of Mindat Markup codes

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