Trials and Tribulations
Okay so this week I decided after working on my sister's website, that I really should setup a local testing server, so that I can test amendments more effectively before putting them on the main server. Because I hadn't been doing much, I just setup a folder temporarily and used that, but technically this has security flaws since it was in a public area. I still use Dreamweaver on my Windows 10 installations, which is a really difficult product to replace with open source, because it does literally everything in one place - or most things. I used it for both mark-up / scripting and for file management, but have in the past also used it to check db tables as well. I'm going to miss the bit where I press Ctrl+Shift+U, because it really sped up the workflow when developing on a remote web server. So I decided to do it anyway and give web development a go on Ubuntu and to be fair, once I got over the teething problems of getting setup, it is really great how you can just run a