Hi, I'm Nick. In this Treehouse quick tip we're going to learn how to edit HTML.
Before i tell you what we should do,
let's go ahead and go over what we shouldn't do.
Make sure that you don't edit your HTML
in a word processing application like Microsoft Word, Apple Pages
or Google Docs.
These programs add special formatting that's invisible to you and me, but will
not play nice with a web browser.
These days, most web designers and developers use what's called a
"text editor"
This is a type of program that allows you to edit documents in plain text, just
as they are.
Let's look at a few popular ones.
if you're using a PC
and you're on Windows, you can actually get started with notepad - which is
included with your operating system.
If you're on a Mac,
you can use TextEdit.
If you do use TextEdit, be sure that you go up to the format menu,
and then you click on a
"Make Plain Text" before you actually go to save your document.
This will ensure that there is no rich formatting included with your plain text.
However,
a really great text editor for beginners
and advanced users alike
is Sublime Text 2.
It's available for Windows, Mac,
and Linux.
you can go to sublimetext.com/2
and then download the installer
that's appropriate for your operating system.
Once you've installed Sublime Text 2
it will look something like this.
If you try sublime and you like it, then you can go ahead and pay for a license.
By default, most text editors will want to save the file as a text file, or a
.txt file
However, when you save your files with the intention of creating an HTML
webpage, you want to save them with the .html file extension.
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