Basic beginner question - How to test a new theme if my site is live?

[dparsleyuva]

I setup my site and went live last week www.CavalierGifts.com using a PrestaShop free theme template that is hosted on iPage www.iPage.com. As I look around at other themes, I am not sure how I could test drive another template to add more features and better appearance than the one I started with. I don't want to switch and go "live" to see if/how the new theme would work. Can someone give me advice on what is possible and preferable so I don't screw this up?

 

Thanks, David

[shacker]

maybe need to make a local backup and test in local. Its not a good idea test in a live site.

[dparsleyuva]

Thanks, but how do I go about making a local backup and test in local? My Prestashop site is hosted in iPage.com. iPage has a Control Panel type of interface that I have to use to view any of the overall plumbing issues, other than the back-end tools I can use within Prestashop Admin. Thanks for any additional help.

[shacker]

you need to download all site to local, backup your database, and use wamp to install all in your PC. In the documentation of presta you have a guide to do this when you have all installed, the file that must be changed is config/settings.inc.php with the data of your local installation (dbname, user, pass, url, etc)

[Tropical Dream]

Install Prestashop on a local host WAMP server

 

http://www.techietips.net/Install-Prestashop-local-host-WAMP-server.html