Creating and testing template files in Dreamweaver

[wjkaluza]

After spending a fair amount of time comparing ExpressionEngine with ProcessWire, I have decided that I want to use ProcessWire for my future projects.  The enthusiasm for the product among the members of this forum was one of the factors I considered in making the decision.  So, I thank you all for taking the time to express your opinions and for making comparisons between the products.  Informed opinions are incredibly valuable to those who want to avoid starting down the wrong path. 

I successfully installed and started using ProcessWire on my site within a couple of hours which is further evidence of its ease of use.

Since most of my experience has been with building sites using Dreamweaver, I think the fastest way for me to be productive will be to build my templates in Dreamweaver using my prior work and then upload them to ProcessWire on my target site.  I have already been successful with that approach.

The question I have for this group is whether there is a step by step guide to installing ProcessWire on your local machine, including installing and setting up MySQL.  I think that I need to do this so that I can test my templates locally before uploading to ProcessWire on my site.

Since I have only worked with static web pages in the past, please let me know if any of you have used a different or better approach in leveraging your Dreamweaver knowledge.  I am eager to learn as much as I can as quickly as I can, and I don't want to waste any of your valuable time because you are just good people who like to help others.  Therefore, please steer me to any existing documentation, tutorials or online information that I will happily study.

Thank you.

Bill

[diogo]

Hello wjkaluza, welcome to the forum!

Glad you decided to go with PW

Creating a hosting environment on your computer is very easy because there are programs that have all that you need bundled (Apache, PHP, MySQL):

For MAC:

http://www.mamp.info/

For windows (there are many, here are three examples): 

http://www.apachefriends.org/

http://www.wampserver.com/

http://www.uniformserver.com/ <- I like this one

For Linux:

Depends of the Distro, but if you are using Dreamweaver I can imagine you don't need this.