If you are a developer, no doubt you have a local development environment in which you build your website projects, testing every function, every change to make sure that once it’s ready to go live, you can upload the files and in preparation for launch.
Once you get a few projects under your belt, and especially where using fully featured Content Management Systems (CMS) like Joomla! or WordPress, where you can make 60-70% of the changes you need directly through the back-end administration, you’ll find your local/development version of your website quickly becomes out of date in comparison to the live site. (More …)