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I was wondering if there was a way that I could preview what my blog would look like after editing the style.css or any of the .tpl files without uploading them to my site. The problem I have is that I edit my style.css page in dreamweaver then I have to upload style.css to my website before I can see the changes I made to the main blog. I have tried to put the entire blog into one folder on my computer and then open index.php to see what the blog would look like and that does not and that does not work. I have also tried to import every page into dreamweaver as a web site and then preview the site and that does not work either. Any advice would help. Thanks.

celect wrote:I was wondering if there was a way that I could preview what my blog would look like after editing the style.css or any of the .tpl files without uploading them to my site. (...) I have tried to put the entire blog into one folder on my computer and then open index.php to see what the blog would look like and that does not work.

Of course it doesn't You need a PHP interpreter, which requires a web server to run on your local machine. Try xampp.

YL

Hi!

The easiest method is to use a browser like Firefox, install the Firebug extension, switch to its "Edit CSS" mode and then just modify the CSS there. Then you see a LIVE preview of it. Once you like the output, you just copy+paste the resulting CSS back into your style.css file

Regards,
Garvin

thanks a lot guys.