can I use wordpress offline?

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Hey guys, please excuse me as i'm a web design newbie, but i want to create my own photography site using wordpress.
I was wondering if there is any way that i can start to design it and sort all the content/layout offline before I sign up to a domain and web hosting.
I currently have Wamp installed, but now i'm a bit stuck.

help!

cheers
 
Yes there is Lazgoat just pointed the method out above ^^

To be honest though I wouldn't bother if you are not familiar with web servers / programming. Unless you have lots of spare time and the willingness to learn :)

Is there any reason why you want to sort it offline? I understand you might not want to people to see your website unfinished but you can easily solve this by putting a redirect to a "under construction" page on your domain.
 
Cheers for that guys! seems to be working alright.

the main reason is that I havn't yet decided who to go with for the domain or the hosting, i'm still building my picture portfolio up, and i've not yet decided on what domain I want yet.
I also havn't used wordpress before, so i thought it would be good practice. how much programming knowledge do i need for this? I have none, but a small amount on web servers
 
Using an out if the box web/blog script is very straight forward. Normally they have easy to use administration areas that allows you to do nearly everything you need.

Using WAMP or MAMP will definitely help you if you want to start learning how to code. Also, the highlighting feature in Dreamweaver is very useful if you are learning how to code.

Do yourself a favour and try to find time to learn how to code a basic website. You, like I was, will be hooked in no time. I started with a genealogy site. It now has thousands of registered users. I am also building sites for clients. It's great once you get into it :)
 
jamiek said:
Yes there is Lazgoat just pointed the method out above ^^

To be honest though I wouldn't bother if you are not familiar with web servers / programming. Unless you have lots of spare time and the willingness to learn :)

Is there any reason why you want to sort it offline? I understand you might not want to people to see your website unfinished but you can easily solve this by putting a redirect to a "under construction" page on your domain.
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Building a website locally is good practice. IMO you shouldn't develop on a live server. The only time you should be doing that is for testing purposes. It's also a lot quicker to build locally and then upload once finished. Can you imagine how annoying it would get to constantly upload modified files every time you wanted to see the changes?
 
KayJay said:
Building a website locally is good practice. IMO you shouldn't develop on a live server. The only time you should be doing that is for testing purposes. It's also a lot quicker to build locally and then upload once finished. Can you imagine how annoying it would get to constantly upload modified files every time you wanted to see the changes?
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Absolutely - I did this for a while, and got thoroughly pee'd off with uploading/downloading files (even using dreamweaver or e-texteditors FTP interface it's a PITA having to wait.

I use XAMPP to build everything locally now, then just transfer to online when it's finished... much easier!
 
I can also recommend XXAMP - it makes development and testing a doddle then all you have to do is upload the completed site :)

Notepad++ is rather good too as an editor.
 
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Just been trying to make this work for the last 2hrs, where do you go once it's installed?
 
2 things

watch out for the version of SQL and PHP, ideally match the target hosting environment in WAMP

Remember when you move a local install of something, you have config files / databases to edit... i.e. the paths, database connections etc..
 
Yea, I think it's the configuring part I'm getting stuck on.

Is there a muppets guide someone can point me to?
 
Richard King said:
2 things

watch out for the version of SQL and PHP, ideally match the target hosting environment in WAMP

Remember when you move a local install of something, you have config files / databases to edit... i.e. the paths, database connections etc..
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TBH, this has never worried me - If Wordpress will run on the "live" server, it doesn't change anything running a different version locally, as you'll only generally need to move the theme files, plus the content (posts/pages and the like) - The content can be moved from the Export tool via the Wordpress admin panel.

The only thing you might have problems with is the image image uploads, as Wordpress uses full paths to images rather than dynamic ones - But it's easily solved via a quick Google search :)

As for a tutorial - What local platform are you using (WAMP, XAMPP etc)?
 
Hi Matt,
I've got both but, can't get either to work, have WAMP installed at the moment.
So many people say it's easy to do but, I can't figure it out.
I don't usually have problems with this sort of thing but, this is making my head hurt!
 
Got a bit further now, it finds localhost but now only shows blank page.
 
Thanks for the help guys, have it all sorted now.
I got another utility called Easyphp, first install and it sailed through so, must have been a compatibility issue or something.
 
mattyh said:
TBH, this has never worried me - If Wordpress will run on the "live" server, it doesn't change anything running a different version locally, as you'll only generally need to move the theme files, plus the content (posts/pages and the like) - The content can be moved from the Export tool via the Wordpress admin panel.

The only thing you might have problems with is the image image uploads, as Wordpress uses full paths to images rather than dynamic ones - But it's easily solved via a quick Google search :)

As for a tutorial - What local platform are you using (WAMP, XAMPP etc)?
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Doesn't bother me either, but its just the sort of thing that trips up a new user
 
I've tried xamp, wamp and lamp, but for me, the easiest to use has to be USBWebserver.

Doesn't even need installing :)
 
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