Dear Forum members, I'm completely new to SS and only have basic HTML and CSS skills but bery good general computing skills. However, I'm thinking about migrating my website to SS using one of the downloadable templates as a starting point. I'v gone through the tutorials and played a lot with the online demo but still have question. I would greatly appreciate the help of experienced users on:
1. is there any way to install SS for testing purposes on a local machine which is NOT configured as a web server ? Or has it always to be a web server, either locally or hosted?
2. How to amend HTML templates? All tutorials (http://doc.silverstripe.org/doku.php?id=tutorial:1-building-a-basic-site and following) start with an existing *.ss file, not with HTML. How do I start with a freely available HTML-template?
3. Editor: I understood that SS uses a distributed layout templates system, in which for example the footer is in a different template than the main page. How can I get a preview of what I've edited in an editor such as Dreamweaver or Kompozer which only allow preview whole HTML-pages (I've read the posts on Dreamweaver here but found no explanation)? Sure I can edit the code in Textedit or else, but whill not see the effects before I've uploaded and flushed the cache.
Thanks pretty much in advance for your help.