General Help with template download for a total dumbo

Hello!

Yesterday I downloaded this template Finding Peace but I have no idea what to open and edit it with. I don't have Dreamweaver or anything, I tried opening the php file in Word but naturally, it didn't work as I assume I need to load all the unzipped files somehow?

Many thanks!!

PS What is wordpress? Is this template something I can make into a website for myself? Ta.

 

If you're editing PHP/HTML/CSS etc. use Notepad, or better yet Notepad++.
If you only want to change the look rather than layout, you should just be able to change the images included in the download, without needing Dreamweaver or anything.

Wordpress is a blog publishing platform - WordPress › Blog Tool and Publishing Platform

Is that template made for wordpress? If it isn't, you can use it by itself for a website. It should tell you on the site you downloaded it from, website template or wordpress theme/style/template or something.

 

Thanks for replying. I just want to swap the text for my own and make sure I have the pages I need. I would keep the layout the same basically. The template is described as this:

"The Finding Peace design was built on a Windows machine with valid CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict. It was tested in Windows for FF 2.0, IE 6.0 and with Mac OS X for Safari 1.3."

If I edit in Notepad, can I see the changes as I don't know anything about html codes etc?

Thanks