You must use a text editor, a plain text editor you cannot use a word processor for this purpose and here are a couple of good choices. It has many, many fantastic and useful features and the text editor that I'm using in this course, on this video,is Notepad++. I used to use another text editor that I had paid for, that was not free, that was a great text editor, and over the years Notepad++ has eclipsed this other pay-for text editor and Notepad++ is free. If you are on a PC, and I work on a PC often, and when I do I use Notepad++. It's actually a great text editor and if you don't want to spend the money on BBEdit, go ahead and get TextWrangler and you will find that it works great for you. The same people that make BBEdit make TextWrangler and TextWrangler is free and it has almost all the features of BBEdit. It is not free, but it has many, many cool and useful features, and I personally love it. If you are on a Mac, and I use a Mac at home, and so I happened to use BBEdit. If you use a word processor to do the exercises in this course, it will not work. So when you are editing code, like HTML, or XHTML, or CSS, or a language like Perl, or PHP, or C, or anything that's supposed to be just plain text, then you need a text editor that is not a word processor. It's also saving all of this formatting information, what we in the biz call meta information, along with the text. As you type in your text, it's not just saving the text. It has italics, and it has bold, it has columns, and it has graphics, and all kinds of stuff. As you are working with HTML, and XHTML, and CSS, and other computer code kinds of things, you are going to want to be using a text editor and not a word processor.
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