Chapter 83. Testing Your Site

You don't have to be connected to the Web to test a Web site. In fact, you don't have to have Web service at all. Web browsers work perfectly well reading HTML files stored on your personal computer.

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In a Web site, local files are the files that you keep on your personal computer for development and testing purposes. Remote files are the files that you publish to the Web server. The remote files are the ones that your visitors see when they visit your site.

Testing your site from your personal or local files makes good sense. You don't have to be online to test your site, for one thing, and you can make whatever changes you like to your pages without affecting the published version of your site. Your changes ...

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