When you go back and forth, editing your css and php, then uploading the files over and over again your spending time uploading your files that could be spend on design. To get around this takes only a few minutes, it’s a simple as downloading and installing.

First thing you’ll need is an http server, I recommend apache. It’s free and handles very well. You can find apache at http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

If you use php your going to need to download and install that as well. You can find php at php.net. (if your using apache as your web server, you must install it before you install php)

After the installation open the directory (folder) where apache was installed. You should see the folder ‘htdocs’. That’s where you’ll put your homepage and the rest of your website. When you want to see what it looks like open your browser and goto http://localhost (this will load the index.html or index.php file in the ‘htdocs’ directory.

Now you can edit your files on your computer before uploading them to your webhost.
This will save you a lot of time.

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I could give tribute to PHP all day long,  so I decided to address one function at a time. This function will take a string and and jumble all the letters in it. So the output of:
$newstring = str_shuffle( "Hello Whats Up?" );
echo $newstring;
Would be something like:
os?U tpalHe lhsW

This function can be used with the substr( ) function to do a variety of cool things (ie. generate random passwords, or account confirmation links).
See Other used for this function at php.net

Outside the topic of the everyday conventional uses of this function; I ran across an interesting post on php.net – Which I thought was very cool.

jojersztajner at OXYGEN dot POLAND
16-Jun-2007 10:27

Aoccdrnig to rseearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Read jojersztajner post at php.net