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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets What is CSS?

Kayla Stogner
Kayla Stogner
3,270 Points
Posted by Kayla Stogner
Kayla Stogner
3,270 Points

Learning in Workspace

Will I eventually learn to code outside of workspace? Is there a suggested software? I've used Dreamweaver before, but what is the common software used for a working web designer?

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

It's certainly a personal preference here. At the end of the day, any text editor can work for you. I worked in Dreamweaver a lot starting out, but only every hardcoded in it. Dreamweaver has a bit of a bad wrap from people in the web industry because DW (dreamweaver) is not only a text editor, but a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) program. If you use deamweaver's built in element creators you end up with a lot of messy code, and if you're on Treehouse, you probably won't be using those DW features.

The other problem, is DW is expensive as a text editor. It's not worth buying for the text editor portion, and the WYSIWYG features are not worth using.

Lately, I switched to Sublime Text. It's a lot more lightweight. Also there are a ton of plugins and extensions for Sublime to really set up the environment that works for you. It seems to be one of the more popular text editors.

I have nothing against any of the other options out there, but DW and Sublime are the two I have experience with.

Kathryn Ann
Kathryn Ann
10,071 Points
Kathryn Ann
Kathryn Ann
10,071 Points

If you're doing the Front-End Web Development track, the HTML and CSS courses that come after "How to Make a Website" don't have the built-in workspace, so you'll get some practice coding in a text editor and viewing it in your browser. I've been using Sublime Text as well, and I don't have much to compare it to, but I love it so far!