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The Treehouse Community is a forum
where students can post questions about

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either specific challenges they feel
stuck on, or more general conceptual

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questions about something covered
within the Treehouse curriculum.

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Answers to your questions
come from fellow students,

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from Treehouse student success
specialists, and even from instructors.

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Participating in the Treehouse Community
is not only a great way to get help on

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an assignment or clarify a concept,
it can be a lot of fun.

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Working on design and development
projects isn't meant to be lonely.

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Professional designers and
developers spend a good portion of

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their day communicating with clients,
project managers, and team members.

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So the community is a good 
opportunity to practice talking 

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about the new skills
you've been learning.

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Before you write your 
first post, however,

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it's important to check out
how the community works.

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I've clicked on the Code of Conduct,
which I recommend reading in detail.

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The Code of Conduct encourages forum
participants to be friendly and patient,

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to be respectful, and to choose
the wording of each post carefully.

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Disagreements happen, 
and that's natural.

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After all, very few design or

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coding challenges have only
one acceptable solution.

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And it can be really exciting to check
out unique approaches to a problem.

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But healthy communities only happen
when its members feel safe and

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comfortable and differences in
opinion are handled respectfully.

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There are two different ways to
explore the Treehouse Community.

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From the Community page itself, you can
search for a term that interests you.

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Typing HTML in the search bar 
produces, wow, 5,600 pages of results.

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Let's narrow that down a bit.

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Since we're encountering an error,

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let's change the search term 
to HTML error, and also use

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the topics dropdown to change
the topic of the search to just HTML.

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All right, 149 pages of results
still sounds like a lot,

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but that's considerably
more manageable than 5,600.

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I'll try clicking on
HTML Basics challenge 2,

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since that sounds similar to
the course where I'm struggling.

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It looks like Jason had
a question on November 30th,

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2020 and it was answered
successfully that same day.

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Jason pasted a snippet of his code and
also the error message he's receiving.

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And it looks like Cameron was able 
to guide Jason to the closing tag 

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that was written incorrectly.

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If you can't find what you're looking 
for in the community, you can ask

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a general question by pressing the Ask
button on the right side of the page.

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However, if the question
pertains to a particular video,

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such as the question about
the Welcome to HTML and

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CSS video, you'll want to post
it directly under that video.

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It looks like 16 questions
have been posted previously.

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So before I post, I should check
out the questions and answers here.

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Somebody might have been
stuck on the same problem and

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an existing answer might
get you back on track.

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If not, pressing the Get Help button
here works the same as the Ask

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button on the Community page.

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A modal window pops up with some tips
on writing a clear post like Jason's,

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including a link to a video on the topic
of how to ask a good question.

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I'll try naming my question after
the first error the validator gave me,

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end tag ul seen, but
there were open elements.

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Treehouse will first
suggest a related question.

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In this case, HTML code giving 
five errors while

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validation might be similar to my 
problem, so I'll read that now.

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If that doesn't help, I'll press Next Step
and get ready to write my question.