title: How to move a WordPress website to my computer for development?
body: <p>I was just hired to work in web design with WordPress and I'm struggling because I'm not experienced with the platform. My job is, basically, take the design made in <strong>Adobe Illustrator</strong> and build the layout in HTML and CSS.</p>
  
  <p>Today I was assigned a site that's already online and had to build the new layout. My instructions were to activate the new template in the WordPress <code>wp-admin</code>, to create the new files (<code>index.php</code>, <code>header.php</code>, <code>footer.php</code> and <code>style.css</code>) in the FTP server and build from there.</p>
  
  <p>Everything OK with that except that when I'm working on the site (maybe 3 or 4 hours), the site is kinda down because I'm uploading the new (incomplete) layout, am I explaining correctly?. E.g., if the web address is <code>theclientsite.com</code> I go to <code>theclientsite.com/wp-admin/themes</code>, define and activate new theme, write the code and test it directly in the browser going to <code>theclientsite.com</code>.</p>
  
  <p>The question is: is there a way to work locally with the WordPress installation? I mean a way to test the site in something like <code>localhost/theclientsite</code> in the browser. My intuition says that the answer is YES, because we're talking about php code. But, as I said, I'm not experienced in the WordPress platform. I don't know if I need to be connected to a WordPress's server or something like that, or if I need to install something in my machine.</p>
  
  <p>Any help, guide or tutorial is welcomed and will be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your answers.</p>