Coding #2

So a page has different elements on it.

These elements can vary from a lot of things.

You can add elements and modify them, endlessly.

There are different ways to organize and adjust the elements using different types of coding languages.

remembering all of the different things that one can do or how to do it is going to take practice.

Every period matters.

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