Theme development

Hi, I am a Drupal newbie. I've just started to explore the Drupal Engine, and now I'm creating my own theme.
But I cannot do this, because every single change requires clearing the cache.
I have to go to the admin panel and click "Clear cache", and btw it takes quite a lot of time to complete.
So basically it is impossible to develop.

I have read a lot of tutorials and articles about disabling, but this still doesn't help.

Here is my file sites/default/settings.local.php

Hi guys,

as mentioned above, i can't login into the drupal backend. When I type www.mydomain.net/user i can see at the page title "user account", but I can not see the frontend for the login page instead I can still see me Homepage screen.

for the theme.info I have added:

I think I am using Drupal 7. Using News Center theme at la1news.com. Anyway, I have unique IP addresses viewing articles I publish numerous times per minute. I think it is the writer and his or her friends refreshing the article over and over again to increase the number of views and make their way to the Most Viewed Stories Top Seven. How can I limit the number of views to once per IP address? I think there is a way but I forgot. I already know how to block IP addresses but that is time consuming.

Hi,

Can you give me an idea which file controls the size of the footer please? Is it a file within the theme? Or a file that controls the placing of all of the contents on the page? Or is it within the block module files?

Thank you

My hook is not firing. It use to and now it doesnt at all. What could be the issue? I've tested nearly everything.

Hi!
I have in my template.php (custom theme) the following code to present a comments along with EDIT and DELETE Links: