Before you change or update the theme of your WordPress site, it’s a good practice to test that theme first. That way your site’s visitors aren’t greeted with a broken site.
Unfortunately, WordPress offers no built in testing solution, so you generally have two options:
Try out your theme on a test version of WordPress running either [...]
When working on the design of a CMS powered website—like this one—you generally have four options:
Modify the default installed theme/template/skin to your liking
Find a theme that’s close to the vision you have for your website, and modify that one to your liking
Create a theme from scratch
Find a “blank” theme with minimal styling to use as [...]