!blue 2.0 h2.kicker Programmer Productivity h1 Variations on the HTML Two-Step figure { img `https://javascriptfanboi.com/img/046/modern-dancers.jpg` *alt='Fancy footwork of modern dancers' figcaption Photo by Haste LeArt V. from Pexels } The World Wide Web's hypertext markup language (HTML) has an inherent beauty all its own: ul { Both the author's words and the typographer's instructions are contained in a single plain text file. Instructions are encoded using short, easily remembered mnemonics. Mnemonics are wrapped into pairs of less-than/greater-than tags which are easily parsed by software. Tagged words are nested inside tagged paragraphs. Paragraphs are assembled into sections, and sections into the whole. The whole document is structured in a hierarchical way that just makes sense. } It's easy to get started with HTML. There's a handful of tags, with single-letter mnemonics, used to surround significant words (, , , ...). There's another batch of tags to mark the beginning and ending of paragraphs, pull quotes, sections and divisions (
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