[m i a o w] the cat

Sometimes you just happen upon a site that some thoughtful person has put together because they’ve had trouble figuring something out. I tried to do this with my revelatory (and lengthy) experience of getting my macbook to speak nicely to my ageing HP Laserjet. Anyway, I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress tonight - 2.2.1 and in all the faffing about that went with that I started to wish for the days when I had my site setup (somehow) in DreamWeaver so it wasn’t such a headf*#k to edit the layout.

That led me to wondering whether there was yet a simple way to make changes to the site offline so I could tweak away at my leisure and not do millions of uploads, breaking the site in the process. I have tried to do this before, BUT! not on a Mac. So after a few googles, and instructions that included using Terminal (something I am not cluey enough to use…yet) I found Michael Doig’s instructions for installing WordPress locally. He reckoned if you follow his instructions, you could have it up and running in 15 minutes. He wasn’t wrong.

I installed the very exciting almost newbie-proof MAMP and it was all reasonable straightforward (though it did tend to assume that you were familiar with doing a WordPress install - which might bite a few people who use Fantastico auto-install magic). Anyway, with a bit more poking around I am going to be able to work on [miaow] offline and no one will be the wiser. This will obviously be of no relevance to anyone who has not suffered the hell that is the broken website resulting from endless design tweaks by someone who is generally fumbling in the dark - but hey, I can’t be the only one who has suffered.

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Background tinkering « [m i a o w] the cat typed this on Oct 08 07 at 10:56 pm

Why didn’t you mention it? We have a 15 year old HP 5MP, (the oldest working bit of kit we own!) working fine from OS X.

Trick was to use an HP directjet print server unit, then it just becomes an HP network printer. Easier to install on mac than windoze LOL!

Dylan typed this on Jul 24 07 at 5:44 pm