WordPress

Here are some images as I customize the Thesis theme, so you can see what can happen easily with out a bunch of php, html, or css coding.

On install:

After about an hour of playing

I've just purchased a developer's copy of the Thesis theme for wordpress, as a client had a need for it, and was ready to customize her site. Thought I'd go ahead and offer it out to any of my clients on sale until March 15th.

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Convert standard site to WordPress including the Thesis Theme, one year of hosting, transfer of 3 pages of current content, and 2 hours of customization

After exporting the db from the live site, goto your local phpMyAdmin
Select your local wp database on the left, and then Import
Browse to your file, and then select Go
After the import you need to change two entries in the DB both are in wp_options
siteurl needs to be changed to your local site url &
home also needs to be changed to your local url

Also you will need to login with the live site user name and password, not the one you may have set up originally for the local site.

I did the zipped install to c:/xampp
Stared up Apache, MySql, and Mercury entered 127.0.0.1 in my browse got in everything running, Selected Security and did everything listed to secure XAMPP, MySQL, PhpMyAdmin, and Mecury Mail. I left PHP as is.

The following steps I've either picked up at the sites I'll list at the end, or figured out myself during my last install. After making a change to each file stop and start your services, so you can find any typo's or errors file by file. If you want until the end you'll have to recheck everything.