Since my venture into blogging, I found that I want to work on redesigning my site without affecting my production environment. When you are working with Thesis Theme, if you mis-code the custom php files, you will mess up your site and need to ftp a new file to the web server. It’s been difficult to get my wordpress site loaded on my Mac because working within the unix environment to load the site locally can be complicated and time consuming for a newbie.
In the time it took to write this post, I was able to deploy four development sites I had on my todo list. I did this with MAMP and a tutorial provided by Jay Robinson. I did not deploy the Coda portion of the tutorial since I didn’t have $99 burning a hole in my pocket. I reviewed the sites tutorial and see the benefit, but haven’t developed long enough to see it worth the money. I suspect that I will use Coda in the future. Any recommendations for Coda or other similar multi-interface development environment?
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