Editing with DW

  • Hello everyone. These last few weeks have been very exciting for me. I took a dive into the designer’s, programmers and the like acronym world. PHP, CSS, HTML, mySQL, XML and so on. Very exciting in deed. After many many hours of searching the net, reading a couple of books and endless trial and error cycles I finally published my first blog. It is kind of funny how something I can do now in 10 minues took me hours or even days. Anyway, I am sure you have experienced the same at some point. Now, enough ranting and on to the question: Why is it not possible to edit the wp-layout file ind dreamweaver? My knowledge of HTML and CSS is very basic and using this tool could be very helpful for me. I can edit the code od the css file, however, when loading the index.php I cannot see any of the elemnts. Any ideas??

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  • Index.php is a PHP file, and PHP is a server side application.
    If you want to edit that, and see changes live, then I’d suggest installing a setup that enables apache, mysql and php. That way, you can run a blog actually on your machine.
    I found XAMPP the easiest to get up and running, though there are others around: https://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

    Topstyle is a CSS/XHTML/HTML editor that might get you closer to where you want to be.

    Thread Starter alce

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    Thank you for your reply podz I have everything enabled in my computer to run the blog locally. I am working on a powerbook running Mac OSX and before uploading everything on a server I installed the blog locally. I run all my tests locally since it takes me ages to get just 1 little thing right. First I thought that I needed to open index.php with dreamweaver from its original location within all wp files because as far I understand what that document does is call many other scripts located in many other locations. Any other idea?

    I would guess that your best bet would be to use just a plaintext editor to make the changes you want to see.
    Change-Save-Refresh .. that sort of pattern ?

    AFAIK, you can edit the CSS file in DWMX++. If you have DWMX2004 it’s very easy. But it is still necessary to open the CSS file independently since the “@import” command is used to load the file with the index rather than a straight link.

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