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ThemeDreamer isn't a blog. It is just a design utility inside Dreamweaver used
to edit the "Theme" files that make up a blogs design or ?look and feel?. You
use your WordPress blog like any other WordPress blog. You can?t tell if a
WordPress site was built using ThemeDreamer because its just a utility to help
edit theme files more easily. Here's the break down:
WordPress is a content management system (program) you run on a webserver, it
makes a 'website' with which you can interact with to create posts or diary
entries and web pages through a special/hidden administration page. All the
public viewable pages inherit a 'theme', a common look and feel consisting of a
header, footer, menu, sidebar, etc.
Dreamweaver is a design tool to create 'web pages' (not necessarily websites).
A typical web page designer usually designs a good looking HTML page using
Dreamweaver (what its good at) and then passes it off to a software engineer
that hacks it to pieces to make it interactive. If you want to change the
design, its usually too late or you have to revert back the original HTML and
start over.
ThemeDreamer is a utility you use inside of Dreamweaver to visually edit the
header, footer, sidebar, etc. directly. These files dictate a WordPress site?s
look and feel without having to resort back to the original HTML files. Just do
a google search on WordPress theme files and you can find thousands of
beautiful templates that you can download and use for free. ThemeDreamer just
enables you to open up the thousands of free theme files so that you can more
easily customize them in Dreamweaver by seeing them visually in Design View.
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