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06/16/2007 05:05:04 AM · #1 |
I've had a quick browse around Google but I can't find the answer that I'm looking for. So, is it possible to be able to design, edit, and preview a blog offline like it is when building a website?
Cheers
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Message edited by author 2007-06-16 05:11:06. |
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06/16/2007 07:40:51 AM · #2 |
Sorry, nope. :( I suppose you could download a page to your harddrive, tweak the source code in Notepad or some other text editor, and then open it with IE/Firefox whatever but that would be hard to do with an entire blog.
Most blogger software allows you a "preview" if you are tweaking code, so you can see what it looks like before you commit to the change.
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06/16/2007 07:49:54 AM · #3 |
You'd have to run a server on your own machine. Blogs rely largely on php files which need to be run in a server environment.
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06/16/2007 09:55:32 AM · #4 |
| Yes, install apache as a web server or use IIS in windows. |
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06/16/2007 10:13:56 AM · #5 |
I agree with routerguy. If it is on the web, then there is a way to run it offline. You just need to make sure that you have the right server software running to support running whatever code you push through. I often test sites offline and use a PHP server called Reactor. It is small and easy to setup and runs everything well. Would do the job for testing blogs
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06/16/2007 10:36:41 AM · #6 |
| I believe both wordpress and joomla can be setup to run on a windows machine in local mode so you can set it up the way you want before you upload it. And once you install the on your webhost, its a simple matter of just copy/pasting your blogs from word/notepad or whatever you want to write them in since they both offer WYSIWYG text editors. |
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06/16/2007 11:00:04 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by wsl:
I believe both wordpress and joomla can be setup to run on a windows machine in local mode so you can set it up the way you want before you upload it. And once you install the on your webhost, its a simple matter of just copy/pasting your blogs from word/notepad or whatever you want to write them in since they both offer WYSIWYG text editors. |
Generally these systems run on PHP/SQL, so if you setup your site locally you can then upload all the php to a webserver and just export your SQL database and import it into SQL on your webserver. Just have to change all the links through your PHP coding, usually using a 'connect' insert will make this fairly painless.
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06/16/2007 11:01:28 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by gloda:
You'd have to run a server on your own machine. Blogs rely largely on php files which need to be run in a server environment. |
PHP, which is my fav language, but plenty run of of perl also. |
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