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Sardor Latipov
Sardor Latipov
5,609 Points
Posted by Sardor Latipov
Sardor Latipov
5,609 Points

I still don't get how to fix bugs

I'm confused. Let's say I find out after launching my website, it has has bugs or I want to make changes.. How do I fix it? edit my code and re upload it to server? or I can fix it only using google chrome editing tools? confused

4 Answers

Christopher Ford
Christopher Ford
3,407 Points
Christopher Ford
Christopher Ford
3,407 Points

I see your concern, but don't worry! Any changes you make in the developer tools are not permanent. In fact, they aren't doing anything to the live site at all. Think of it like having an overlay on your website; you can make any changes you want, but when you take the overlay away, the original site is unchanged.

Try it yourself - go to a site like Amazon and open the dev tools. You can make as many changes as you want, but they aren't affecting the live code in any way.

This is why you will need to make a note of any changes you make during testing of your own site and replicate them in your code editor before re-uploading the site to your server.

Christopher Ford
Christopher Ford
3,407 Points
Christopher Ford
Christopher Ford
3,407 Points

Hi Sardor,

The browser developer tools are a great way to tweak things on a 'live' site (whether that be out on the internet or just locally). If you know or can see that something isn't quite right on your site, it's a great idea to use the dev tools to make some adjustments and get instant feedback as to whether these adjustments actually fix the problem.

Once you are confident that you have made the correct changes, you can then go ahead and replicate these changes in your code and re-upload your site to the server.

I hope this helps, Chris

Sardor Latipov
Sardor Latipov
5,609 Points
Sardor Latipov
Sardor Latipov
5,609 Points

Thanks Christopher. Another thing I don't understand is, does anyone visiting my site can make changes to it using this tools? How does it know it's me? Do I need to login somewhere? I haven't launched my website yet. Thank you again!

Sardor Latipov
Sardor Latipov
5,609 Points
Sardor Latipov
Sardor Latipov
5,609 Points

Now it's clear to me. Thanks a lot Christopher.