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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Display Modes Which CSS Reset Method Should I Use?

Santos Litkie
Santos Litkie
6,172 Points
Posted by Santos Litkie
Santos Litkie
6,172 Points

What text editor were you using in the video?

I'm just curious, trying to figure out which I should use outside of treehouse's workspaces.

4 Answers

Chris Wiley
Chris Wiley
11,327 Points

I use Sublime2 and preview for troubleshooting with MDN in Firefox. Both are free. Nick Pettit got me started on the Sublime2 in the HTML courses.

Chyno Deluxe
Chyno Deluxe
16,936 Points
Chyno Deluxe
Chyno Deluxe
16,936 Points

I use Brackets.io It's free and its the best one i've used. i used to use Dreamweaver.

Kevin Baum
Kevin Baum
515 Points

Do you find that Brackets.io is easier to use than Dreamweaver, and have you ever used Xcode?

Chyno Deluxe
Chyno Deluxe
16,936 Points

I've never used Xcode but yes i do find it alot easier to use than dreamweaver. The only thing dreamweaver provides that, to my knowledge anyway, brackets doesn't have FTP to connect to hosted servers. so if i want to make changes to my websites i'd still have to use dreamweaver to do that rather than download something else and learn how to use a new program.

But i haven't looked back after switching to brackets.

Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith
14,330 Points
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith
14,330 Points

Sublime Text 3 has treated me very well and is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Even though it's technically still in beta after more than a year, it's been stable and fast for me on Yosemite (which is running on a six year old 13" MacBook Pro). Sublime Text is easy enough to get started on right out of the box, but its massive ecosystem of open-source and mostly free plugins can turn it into a real beast of a text-editor. I'd recommend Sublime Text 3 over 2 because the plugin developers have mostly migrated to ST3 by this point in time. By most accounts the ST3 "beta" is basically now a stable, production ready version.

As a side note, I'd also recommend Dash to anyone on a Mac. Being able to download and search the documentations of all of the major programming and markup languages and frameworks in a single place offline is a massive boast to learning and productivity. It's very much worth the $20 to anyone serious about learning and working in web development. It's also available for the iPad, in case anyone wants to be reading documentation on the go.

Brigitt Arndt
Brigitt Arndt
9,498 Points
Brigitt Arndt
Brigitt Arndt
9,498 Points

I had adobe edge code preview that is being discontinued and pointed me towards Brackets.io