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-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html>
-  <head>
-    <title>WEBSITE</title>
-  </head>
-  <body>
-    hey hey.
-    <br><br>
-    <h2>document as you go!</h2>
-    <br><br>
-    spent hours typing up this page
-    <br><br>
-    scrutinizing formatting
-    <br><br>
-    overlaying blocks with barebones css at the top of the html file
-    <br><br>
-    i would be sad if I lost this 
-  </body>
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+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title>WEBSITE</title>
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    hey hey.
+    <h2>document as you go!</h2>
+    so you write a simple function website with raw html and a few style tags
+    added to the head section
+    <h1>HTML Basics</h1>
+
+    <h2>line breaks</h2>
+    add a line break like
+    <br>
+    this
+    <br>
+    with <code>&ltbr&gt</code>
+    
+    <h2>Headers</h2>
+    You can organize all of the information in your page with nested header
+    fields of varying sizes with:
+    <xmp>
+      <h1>header 1</h1>
+      <h2>header 2</h2>
+      <h3>header 3</h3>
+      <h4>header 4 </h4>
+      <h5>header 5</h5>
+    </xmp>
+    that should look like:
+    <br>
+    <h1>header 1</h1>
+    <h2>header 2</h2>
+    <h3>header 3</h3>
+    <h4>header 4 </h4>
+    <h5>header 5</h5>
+
+
+    <h2>Lists</h2>
+    you can create a numbered list (ordered list) with <code>&ltol&gt
+    &lt/ol&gt</code> or bullet points (unordered list) with <code>&ltul&gt
+    &lt/ul&gt</code> and then embed list items with <code>&ltli&gt
+      &lt/li&gt</code>
+    
+    <xmp>
+      number list
+      <ol>
+        <li>first point</li>
+        <li>second point</li>
+        <li>third point</li>
+      </ol>
+      or bullet points
+      <ul>
+        <li>bullet one</li>
+        <li>bullet two</li>
+        <li>bullet three</li>
+      </ul>
+    </xmp>
+    should end up looking like this:
+    <br><br>
+    number list
+    <ol>
+      <li>first point</li>
+      <li>second point</li>
+      <li>third point</li>
+    </ol>
+    or bullet points
+    <ul>
+      <li>bullet one</li>
+      <li>bullet two</li>
+      <li>bullet three</li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <h2>media</h2>
+    embed images with the <code>&ltimg&gt</code> tag
+    <br></br>
+    <code>&lt img src="path/to/img_file.jpg" alt="alternative text description"
+      width="500" height="600"&gt</code>
+    <br><br>
+    <img src="sample.jpg" alt="example image" height="400">
+    <br><br>
+    or videos with <code>&ltvideo&gt</code> tag
+    <br><br>
+    <code>&ltvideo width="320" height="240" controls&gt <br>
+        &ltsource src="path/to/movie.mp4" type="video/mp4"&gt<br>
+            Your browser does not support the video tag.<br>
+      &lt/video&gt</code>
+    <br><br>
+    <video width="320" height="240" controls>
+      <source src="sample.mp4" type="video/mp4">
+      Your browser does not support the video tag.
+    </video>
+    <br><br>
+
+    <h2>more resources and tutorials</h2>
+    <ul>
+      <li><a href="https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_header.asp">headers</a></li>
+      <li><a href="https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_li.asp">lists</a></li>
+      <li><a href="https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp">images</a></li>
+      <li><a href="https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_video.asp">videos</a></li>
+    </ul>
+    
+    
+  </body>
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