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Posted by Marisol Guillen
Marisol Guillen
166 Points

Beginners' Confusion

Hey TeamTreehouse, I am new to this digital world. With that said, I am trying to practice my new found coding skills on notepad++ for windows. I am trying to create a website from scratch through this editor; however, there are these licensing agreements or whatever. Can someone explain to me what this means? Also, if I make a website using these free editors as a beginner and use it to go live on the web, is that an issue? Lastly, I ask because I tried to copy and past normalize into the editor, but it would not let me save it in there. Is this an issue? What am I restricted to doing with open source software?

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points

First of all with normalise once you copy and paste the code in to a tab and save that is normalize.css, then the text editor should recognise that as a CSS file.

Notepad++ is open course software so any work that you create using it, (providing that it's not copied directly from another website) is your own copyright. :-)

Good luck.

Marisol Guillen
Marisol Guillen
166 Points

Thank you Jonathan for the quick response and advice =)... I appreciate it.