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You need a Webhoster, which meets these requirements:
https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/

Using the control-panel of the Webhoster you create a new MySQL-Database. Keep the information about it ready (database-host, database-name, database-password).

Then you download wordpress from wordpress.org, unzip it and upload it via ftp to the webspace of your Webhoster. I would recommend changing the standard “wordpress” folder name to something more meaningful (just in case you want to create more wordpress-installations in the future).

Then you enter the URL, where you uploaded the files to, in a browser.

An automatic setup process appears, which will guide you through the installation.

After that, you can log-in by adding “wp-login.php” to the WordPress-URL.

Some tips:
You should create two wordpress-installations. One is your actual website, the other one is for testing (disallow search-engines to index this one).

Don’t forget to add some security (this is a different topic however).

Create regular backups by downloading the whole folder from the ftp-server and the database from the control-panel of your Webhoster.

Regarding suiteable themes you should have a general idea how and what you want to publish, how you interact with visitors etc. Don’t let yourself fool by the grandios presentations and promises of some themes and always ask yourself what you really need.

With that in mind you can start browsing the wordpress theme stockpile and start testing. Please share your conclusions here.

Other than themes, there are also plugins, which add a lot of functions.

If you don’t need other users to login, you can lockdown the wp-admin folder.

Create a .htpasswd:
http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/

Create a .htacccess
Put the following in that file, replace the stuff in the [] brackets with your own (delete the bracket).

#Allow access to ajax
<Files admin-ajax.php>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any
</Files>

#Password protect login
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted area"
AuthUserFile [full server-path to htpasswd in wp-admin]
require user [username]

#Allow access to ajax
<Files admin-ajax.php>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any
</Files>

Put both files (.htpasswd and .htaccess) in your wp-admin directory.

Change login-credentials to your webspace (ftp users and passwords).

Change login-credentials to the admin-panel of your webhoster.

Change wordpress passwords in the database:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_phpMyAdmin

Yes, Xampp will set up a local server on your PC.

You CAN build your website offline, then upload it as a whole. However, you do NOT need to build your website offline! Xampp is NOT required to build a WordPress-site, you can edit the whole thing directly online.

I guess you are used to editing individual html-files (which contain the content, i. e. text and links) on your pc, then upload it via ftp. Forget that, that’s not how WordPress works.

The content is not stored in files but in the database and organized and edited using the Dashboard (= Administration-Area). Of course you could edit the database directly to change the content, but that would be pretty stupid and defeat the purpose.
How the content is displayed on your website is determined via css and php files.

Which Theme are you using?

You can use negative values:

@media screen and (min-width: 1008px) {
#page {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: -37px !important;
}
}

You can still do that if you like. 😉

Not with WordPress or most Content Management Systems though.

What was your question again?

As “catacaustic” already pointed out: unless you are using text only, the content on a website is not optimized for printing.

Of course you can create a catalogue using a software and then display that on a webpage:

– Use an external service like “calameo”, “yumpuu” or “issuu”
– Or use a plugin, search for flipping book, flipbook, photo book

Downside: it is not search-engine friendly.