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Students are instructed to adjust the text in the "Contact me" section, mark up the appropriate HTML, create an email link, and add styling using CSS to make it look similar to the screenshot provided.

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>> All right so now it's time for you to give this a try all right. So now that you've gone through this process and you've seen how this works, here's what I'd like for you to do next. I want you to try styling the contact section of the webpage and so I'll show you on the real webpage.

[00:00:17]
The contact section of the webpage is this part right here, contact me. We're gonna make an exception to that at this point in time, let's say, where don't worry about the button just yet. Just make it a plain old link. We'll go back and get the button a little bit later.

[00:00:32]
And so here's what you need to do. I'll give you the beginning code pan. I'd like you to style up that text. I'd like you to markup the HTML appropriately. This is the way it's supposed to look. You have the oxygen and oxygen motto. Fonts, which we have continued to use.

[00:00:54]
The CSS that we wrote earlier should carry into this code pen. In other words, you don't have to rewrite everything from the beginning. Copy over the CSS that exists so far. And then you'll continue to add to that CSS as you work on this contact portion of the webpage

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