developing cmsms site offline

[junglesilence]

this must be really simple but I have no idea.

1) How do I develop a cmsms site offline? I want to make a complete website before I officially launch it.

2) When I do build my site offline, how do I upload it? Will simply uploading all the folders in their respective places work for me?

I am confused. Probably this is a very general question; you'll do me a favor by helping out

[cyberman]

1) How do I develop a cmsms site offline?

Please look at site admin > global settings. There you can enable a site down message  .

2) When I do build my site offline, how do I upload it? Will simply uploading all the folders in their respective places work for me?

Think so. Only CMSms frontend is offline. You can work in backend without problems.

[junglesilence]

Thanks cyberman  but I dont think I put myself across clearly. I want to develop the site offline on my own machine.

That is because
1) My hosting provider currently is not very reliable. The site frequently goes down and I can't work on it.
2) I am currently paying for a virtually non-existant website. It is still in the development stage.

So I was thinking that probably I can just build an entire site offline and once I am done, sign up with a more reliable host and then get my site running.

[cyberman]

I want to develop the site offline on my own machine.

It's possible too. You can use same procedure like here

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... New_Server

[Dee]

Install Apache, MySQL and PHP on your machine so you can run CMS Made Simple locally.
If you're on Windows (switch to linux or) install a WAMP package like XAMPP or WAMP5.

Regards,
D

[junglesilence]

Install Apache, MySQL and PHP on your machine so you can run CMS Made Simple locally.
If you're on Windows (switch to linux or) install a WAMP package like XAMPP or WAMP5.

Regards,
D

Aah, that's a lot of work to do  but thanks for pitching in. But isn't there an easier method?

I use Windows XP on my own machine and well pretty comfortable with working in MS office. If I do install Linux and Apache and whatever, I might still have some compatibilty issues with other applications. eg. I don't think Adobe Photoshop would run on Linux. May be I'll need to open it in windows, do my work, save it and then reboot in Linux to check if the graphic works. Ooops  My grey cells are not super smart already; I don't want to lose the ones that still manage to flash light bulbs once in a while.

[Dee]

If you're on Windows ... install a WAMP package like XAMPP or WAMP5.

Regards,
D

[Nullig]

I use wxmp, which is a windows based server (Xitami), along with MySql and PHP. It's small and very easy to install.

You can get it here:

http://www.christianroessler.net/cms/pu ... 032004.zip

I do all of my development on this server, then upload the files to my hosting service when it's ready for prime time.

Nullig

[heatherfeuer]

And whatever you do, for really GOOD, valid, clean code, do NOT use MS 'Orifice'  to develop your web pages!  MS adds all kinds of nasty kludge.  (There is a reason why the wysiwyg editors have a button to clean office code!)

Seriously, an all-in-one install package like WAMP will be easy to set up.  Almost as easy as CMSMS.  Then use the wysiwyg editor included or find one to download (I highly recommend TopStyle Pro.  It's not that expensive and allows you to work with html and linked external stylesheets together so you can easily see the results of any changes you make.

[cyberman]

I don't think Adobe Photoshop would run on Linux.

You were wrong - please google a little bit for Win4Lin or commercial CrossOver Office. This makes to run windows software on Linux  .