Title: Developing Themes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Developing Themes

 *  [cosmic4z](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cosmic4z/)
 * (@cosmic4z)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-themes/)
 * Hello,
 * My first post here..
 * I want to develop some wordpress themes, using Dreamweaver; however, as the theme
   files are all split in to separate php files (header, index, sidebar, footer,
   etc), it’s a bit tricky to get a full and clear picture of what the complete 
   theme will look like, from within Dreamweaver.
 * I noticed something called Theme Dreamer, which I may end up buying; but just
   wanted to ask your advice; what’s the best (most workable and convenient) way
   of creating templates using something like Dreamweaver?
 * Thanks once again.

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 *  [miocene22](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miocene22/)
 * (@miocene22)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-themes/#post-1221729)
 * It is generally better just to upload the files after editing to your wordpress
   site and preview live in a browser.
 * WYSIWYG editors are generally poor ways of developing sites as they often add
   a load of bulk code, some of which is not standards complient.
 * I use MS expression web (similar to DW) but only the code function of it as it
   has great code autocompletion. I then upload any modified theme files using filezilla(
   free) to my site to see the changes.
 * It is actually a very quick and good way of doing it as I just go ctrl-s and 
   then drag the file over in Filezilla.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-themes/#post-1221732)
 * Also review some of the information available in [Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates).
 *  [andiszek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andiszek/)
 * (@andiszek)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-themes/#post-1221829)
 * my workflow is this:
    i create a bunch of relevant HTML templates in dreamweaver.
   mainpage, category, post, archive, etc.
 * then i create a new site on my localhost (WAMP server), copy all the WP files
   into it, create a new theme folder and start copy-pasting the relevant blocks
   of code into the PHP files. i can see them live in the browser on my localhost.
 * after that i start inserting the relevant WP code snippets.
 * if for some reason you can`t install WAMP, then use the online server to test
   the files the same way. just create a FTP connection in DW and check “upload 
   files after saving”.
 *  [Peter Boosten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pboosten/)
 * (@pboosten)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developing-themes/#post-1221831)
 * I work the other way around:
 * I draw a sketch on a piece of paper, install [Starkers Theme for WordPress](http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/archive/2008/starkers-for-wordpress-262/),
   which is completely naked (although it needs some minor tweaking for 2.8.x), 
   and start building the css.
 * Peter

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