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+<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- indicates the language of the document -->
+<html lang="en"> <!-- indicates language of the page -->
+  <head> <!-- head section contains metadata of the page -->
+    <meta charset="utf-8"> <!-- indicates which character set the browser should render -->
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <!-- scales the page to the size of the screen, important to make page look good on mobile -->
+    <title>Webpage Title Here</title> <!-- indicates the title of the page to the browser -->
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <h1>Webpage Title Here</h1> <!-- this will be the first line printed on the page, and will be larger than anything else -->
+    <h2>Subtitle Here</h2> <!-- use this as a heading to designate a new section of content -->
+    <p>Paragraph Here</p> <!-- can have multiple paragraphs in a section, each use of these tags will give you a new paragraph, with a break in between them -->
+  </body>
+</html>
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