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by pmachett

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Hi,

Is it necessary to have PWS/IIS installed on the local machine to build websites. Can't it be developed directly on the webserver?? I know this is a simple question, but I am not a techie, but being a management person, I am trying to see ifclasses can be taught without having to install IIS locally. I would really appreciate it if someone answered this question. Thanks.

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by joseph moore

Yes, you can work on the HTML documents directly on your web server. You don't need to have a web server running on the machine you are developing on.
It is just usually done that way, though. You give your HTML developers their own web server (usually their own workstations) to develop the code and to test it out. This way, if they do something wrong, they are not harming the "live" pages on the live web server. The development environment is the smart way to go.
But, you don't have to do itthis way. You can work on the HTML pages on the web server.

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by r. a. caluste

if you use wysiwyg html editors such as front page, you can work either directly from the site and update your changes or you can create your site locally and publish it from the editor or publish it manually using different file transfer methods (browser upload or ftp).

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