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Tools of the trade

Tools of the trade - HTML Tutorial

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Tools of the trade

- [Instructor] Let's talk about the tools that you need to write html. While you can get by with any plain text editor to write your code with and a web browser to test your code, there are some advantages to using tools that are specifically designed for writing, testing, and uploading html. For writing html, you want an editor that's been built specifically for writing and editing html. Throughout this course, I'll be using brackets.io as my text editor. I chose this app because it works very well for writing html on both Windows and Mac. It checks all the boxes of my must have list. It's got code coloring, code hinting, line numbering, multi-file search and replace, a built in file browser, and a flexible code preview and publishing system. Not to mention it's free. Next on your list needs to be a collection of web browsers for testing your page on. If you're building sites for a class, then make sure you have the same browsers and devices that your students will most likely be…

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