What do I use to follow along?

Hi Tracey

You can learn and follow along the course by your own preferable text editors. You can use every text editors you like, but the reason is that some editors are more helpful (syntax highlight, ...).

Treehouse recommend you to use the workspace or sublime text editor.

About the problem of workspace, which browser do you use? It works fine for me in Chrome.

Hope this helps.

Hey Sreng,

Thanks for getting back to me. I'm using chrome, but I'm not sure which editor Is best I have three up right now. Workspace, Sublime and Codepen. When i'm using sublime, I don't have the option to view the page we are creating/editing. In workspaces, the webpage I created before is saved, so I cannot view the page i'm currently working on along side the instructor. All the information in Codepen is the same as what the instructor is working on along with the page that we are editing, but i'm not sure how long I can use this without having to buy a membership. If i'm using sublime, how do I look over the page i'm applying the code to?

You can use workspace or sublime. Codepen is something when you want people to help and look at your code, so just stick with workspace or sublime.

If you choose sublime, you can write your codes and follow along as usual. To open the html file, you can double click the file, or right click to open it with your browser, or drag and drop the file into your browser. After you edit your codes, you have to reload the page and it'll be updated. I think you'll be fine with that.

If you choose workspace, i think you can take a little time to watch this course. It'll give you a good idea to use the workspace.

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/treehouse-club-html

Hope this helps.

I've found workspaces to work well for me as I follow along.

I create a new workspace for each lesson. I think you only get 100, so eventually I'll have to go back and delete the early ones out.

I download the .zip files, extract them, then drag and drop all the files in the "start" folder into the workspace where I can use them to follow along.

I'm not sure what you meant by "the webpage I created before is saved, so I cannot view the page..." - I think the solution is to start a new workspace, like I mentioned above.

Hope that helps.

Thank you for your help, both of you I'll try these things out to see which one works the best. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions.

Codepen is one of my favorite development platforms, I'm a bit addicted I've got over 200 pens.

Codepen is free unless you want the pro features. I also like http://codio.io which you can use for larger projects including backend languages.

If you don't like Workspaces or codepen you can check out http://brackets.io/ it's a free text editor designed for frontend development.

Hey James,

Thanks for the other suggestions. I'll try Workspace and if I get brave I'll try brackets.io. This helps a lot, I appreciate the input.

I used Workspaces for HTML and CSS when I first ran through them. It helped me understand the file structure of a website and how they all communicated with each other, and how it should be saved and linked when you finally host those files on a server and essentially host your website to show off your work.

I looked around and used Notepad++, Visual Studio(Free Version), but a web development friend of mine said I should use Brackets, as it is a complete development environment for web development and design.

Nic does a really awesome job to keep you on track with work spaces, and learning something new is never easy, nor should it be. Its fun learning something difficult and conquering it.

Good luck to you Tracey, don't give up, and be sure to have fun.

Hey Brody,

Thanks, I needed that, i'm having some difficulty with workspaces, and Nic was great, Guil is harder to follow along with. maybe i'll try brackets, it couldn't hurt. I appreciate your input and thanks for giving me a reminder to not give up.