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Posted by Edgar Garfias
Edgar Garfias
Courses Plus Student 5,485 Points

Career falling short..

Has anyone had trouble building a website using workspaces? Honestly, I've tried building one so I could add it to my portfolio, but it's been giving me some trouble. I'm about to finish up the Web Design course, and it would suck if I can even prove what I've learned. Any suggestions to another form of building a website will be helpful.

2 Answers

Nicholas Grenwalt
Nicholas Grenwalt
46,626 Points
Nicholas Grenwalt
Nicholas Grenwalt
46,626 Points

There are other frameworks that make things a little simpler if you understand the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript such as Wordpress, Bootstrap, and Zurb Foundation. They all have awesome utilities to make building websites a lot easier on the coder, although they aren't as flexible as original coding. Treehouse has courses on these as well. Hope that helps. :)

Ted Moxon
Ted Moxon
18,203 Points
Ted Moxon
Ted Moxon
18,203 Points

You really should familiarize yourself with other text editors. The one that Treehouse recommends and is also a widely used one is Sublime Text. That is what I use instead of workspaces for all of the courses.

It is easier on the eyes because you can set the background color to black. It is also laid out very similar to workspace es. Lastly and something that I conside the best part about using any text editor other then workspaces is the auto-completion features.

Workspaces is a convenient because Treehouse has already set up the project for you when you open it. But you are going to have to learn to use something other then that once you get out into the job market.

There are a ton of text editors out there but the most popular ones seem to be...

Sublime Text, Notepad++, Vim, Atom