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New Website Design

Working on a new website design completely based around WordPress is a daunting task.  WordPress themes are not like normal web pages, so you have to upload them into a wordpress environment to preview them.  Uploading each file efter making a small change is a little annoying so I have decided to install WordPress locally.  The only problem is that OS X does not come with MySQL and you have to edit some configuration files to get PHP working.  Luckily, I found a very cool solution called MAMP. MAMP is a web development environment that sets up PHP 5, MySQL, and Apache in a quarantined area.  It takes about, oh, 3 seconds to set up something that would take me a good half hour before.  Very cool.

Tags: apache, mamp, mysql, php, wordpress