Question about creating a new site using Wordpress on a domain currently in use

spudbynight · 27 Jan 2015 at 11:27

I am putting together a new website for someone. They currently have an existing website in place but it is well past a need for change.

I am happy enough desiging a website using Wordpress. I am not a professional web designer (I am doing this for free) and I have a small question.

How do I go about designing the wordpress site without it replacing the current live website. Once it is complete, how do I then move the site to replace the old site?

spudbynight · 27 Jan 2015 at 17:38

OK - I will look into subdomains.

Thanks

spudbynight · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:09

I'm working in OSX for development. Can anyone give me an idiots run through for what I need to do with my hosts file to point it at a local folder for development?

spudbynight · 31 Jan 2015 at 23:00

I can handle the hosts side of things.

I just need to now figure out the following

1. How to setup a local web server. I think OS X includes one.
2. How to setup a local SQL server.

With that in mind, will setting up on a subdomain and then migrating the wordpress installation later be less troublesome?