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Each application has a page where the developer can present their project, host documentation and link to relevant resources. The page consist of the following elements:
Markdown: The README file is rendered as Markdown so you can add headings, lists, code snippets etc. If you need a brush-up of how Markup works, this cheat sheet is pretty handy.
Be nice to your end-users: we all recognize the joy of working with well-documented tools (and the pains and frustrations of the poorly documented ones). Our experience making sure that a few basic things are covered helps your users a lot and will help your tool get found by search engines:
A few examples of the type of outputs the application produces and what these mean
Feel free to use the template below as a starting point:
# Title of the application
Summary: An overview of what the tool is all about, what it is used for, and where and by whom it was developed.
## Inputs and Settings
Here, provide simple documentation, including examples, of the inputs and options that the user should provide
including potential formatting requirements.
Consider including examples of valid inputs to show the correct usage of the input arguments.
## Output
Here, provide a short description of the outputs that the users of your application can expect.
## FAQ
If you are aware of common questions or issues, include these as well as answers or solutions to these here.
You can include images directly in the README markdown file. To do this images need to be encoded as ascii.
To convert a JPEG or PNG image to ascii you can use this BiLib utility: Convert-image-to-markdown Once the application has been run, download the result by clicking the "Save Result" button, unzip the output file, open the .txt file, and copy past the content into the README markdown file.