Hello visitors,

My name is Vanessa, but you can call me Ness or whatever name tickles your fancy, you honeypie you. I am a student at the University of Florida, a singer of opera and instrumentalist of loud, and a lover of all things silly and sillier. I have taught music for nearly 8 years, but have decided to expand my repertoire of teaching abilities by studying Educational Technology. This page, in turn, is my newest step into the realm of EdTech. Please scroll along and join me in my first and most jovial dive into the world of HTML and code.

However, before we go, I must warn that our journey may be a periolous one.

But fear not! We are in this together. And I will teach you tricks of the trade along the way!

The following are examples of HTML text formatting, in the context of the sounds I would make if I fell off a steep mountainside:

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*thud*

On our HTML journey, expect to venture everywhere. Everwhere includes everything from mazes of _underground canyons...

to dragon nests ^{high above} the treetops.

But to prepare for all of this, we will need supplies. The HTML tag <mark> highlights text, which can help to emphasize the most important things on your list. In the words of Adam Sandler, phone, wallet, keys!

And similarly, the HTML <del> element defines text that has been deleted or removed. This can help you to de-emphasize supplies that are no longer important to our journey. Example: leave the gun take the cannoli.

But as important as gathering supplies is, it is also important to take breaks. A line break in text can be made with the tag <br>. When you encounter one of these rare breaks on our vigorous expedition, make sure to take a breath. Eat a KitKat. Hug your mom.

What are you doing?! THIS IS NO TIME FOR A BREAK! That KitKat was really tasty though. On your feet, soldier! There's no time to waste!

Speaking of supplies, this is probably a good time to teach you about lists. There will be many important lists on our journey for things like supplies, tasks, recipes, and which boys we have crushes on.

The first type of list we will encounter is an ordered list. This example will detail the step-by-step process of how to talk to the trolls that guard the ancient forest we must trek through (remember this for later):

1. Speak to the pink troll. Be polite.
2. Listen to the blue troll. Laugh at his jokes. He's taking improv classes and is really doing his best.
3. Kneel once you see the purple troll. Be ready to solve her riddle as soon as she's done asking it.

The next list is an unordered list. This list will cover which boys you have crushes on, in no particular order. Keep this on hand in case the trolls invite you to their sleepover, so that you can goss and gab with the best of 'em.

• Michael Jordan
• Michael B. Jordan
• Michael C. Jordan
• Pink troll's dad. Just for the drama.

Ready for your first test? The trolls are right in front of you.

Well I do declare, it is lovely meeting you on this fine and dandy day.

Haha, yeah it is. Any day without airline food is a good day to me! Am I right, ladies?

WHO GOES THERE? Anyone that wishes to cross this forest must first answer my riddle. "I am sweet on the inside, and crunchy on the outside. I am not unlike the Taco Bell Beefy Crunch Burrito back for a limited time until 9/6, although I kind of backwards from that perspective if you think about it? I am also a different ethnicity. What am I?"

Stop and think. Did you get the riddle? The answer is cannolis. The answer is always cannolis.

Hey, it's okay! You'll get it next time. See you on Monday for more training.

Mmmm, KitKats...