Not sure how to access a "server"

Hi Bridget,

It's unlikely that your computer is set up as a server - by default it won't be. Although it's possible to create a server environment on your computer, all of the lessons and code challenges within Treehouse can be run from the Workspaces feature here. You won't need to install any special software to get started with HTML.

When you create a website, it must be hosted on a server - a dedicated computer that "serves" the content to client computers (anyone that visits your site). I think the lesson you've been doing explores the way you can navigate around a server from the code you're writing on an HTML page. You can use Workspaces for that.

Terminal on your Windows PC is just a command-line style interface that gives you access to the same functionality that you get when you use Windows through its normal graphical interface - it's just a text-only route. You probably aren't going to need anything in Terminal for a while yet.

That's not the most technical definition - but I hope you get the idea.

Understanding some of these concepts might be a little confusing at first, but I really hope you persist, because when you get a basic understanding then things will fall into place quite quickly.

Stick with it - it'll pay off!

Good luck =) Rich