I have a local web server running on my development PC, with an exact copy of all my sites stored locally, so I can develop and test as I go, only uploading when I know everything is 100%. For Windows machines, you can choose IIS or Apache, although I'd recommend you go with whatever your web server is running. Geoff. On 19 Jan 2006 at 16:02, Jedidiah wrote: > I mentioned earlier that I recently switched my site over to PHP. I had a > couple of reasons for this: > > 1: I was using Server Side Includes, and had been told that PHP includes > were better and definitely more popular. > > 2: I began sending out a newsletter which was written by someone else in > PHP. > > > > I am beginning to wonder if this was a good idea. I can no longer preview > my pages without uploading the files to the server. This can really become > a problem when I am making slight formatting changes to my CSS file where I > need to refresh the page every few seconds until I get the look just right. > > Is it really worth changing all the files to PHP files and using includes? > Is there any way around this, or am I stuck uploading?? > > > > Thanks, > > > Jedidiah > > > > !DSPAM:43d01a9147492034818120! > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php