# Place for total coding beginners to learn how to customise?

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [October 9, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/place-for-total-coding-beginners-to-learn-how-to-customise/130555 "2019-10-09T09:17:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![charlie\_spring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@charlie\_spring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charlie_spring)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/place-for-total-coding-beginners-to-learn-how-to-customise/130555/1 "2019-10-09T09:17:11Z")

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I can see the richness of the resources on Meta but usually advice is aimed at people with some basic coding knowledge. Our community (a network of people keen to build a more sustainable food system in our city) is made up of entirely non-coders and, so far, forum hasn’t been used- but members have suggested some potential uses eg as a place to build a food strategy, and I want to show them all the features, but even changing basic configurations is a challenge for a beginner like me- I wanted to follow the instructions on how to make wikis look more obvious but when I C+P’d the CSS text in this thread and tried to save, it gave me error message: I don’t know where new lines, brackets, semi-colons etc should go and what they mean- is there a place on here where total beginners can learn things from first principles?! Maybe there are places outside of Discourse I need to be looking? I feel we’re hardly touching the potential of the forum…Humble thanks! [Change the style of a wiki post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-style-of-a-wiki-post/78881)

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