As a developer there are many ways which you can develop. The most convenient is to download (or create) the files on your local machine. You'll then need to install a web-server on your machine to run them as web pages. There are many different web servers available to you, but the two most common are:
- Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services). Currently at version 7. IIS comes built into the windows operating system and is available for anybody with a 'professional' or higher version of the Windows OS. It naturally runs asp.net and has support for PHP too. Install guide here.
- Apache. There are various different versions of Apache. The OSX operating system for macs comes with a basic version of this already installed, you just turn on the internet sharing option. For windows, XAMPP is great (as it has the mercury mail server and various other things built in). Installation is simple and Google is your friend if not so. Be aware that Skype may very well interfere with apache and also, make sure your firewall isn't crocking you too. If you press start and it stops immediately, it's probably windows firewall - you just need to go into the firewall and edit the permissions. Other reasons may include your log files getting too big (in xampp/apache/logs/) and the permissions on them being wrong. Also, a crash of an apache run may leave httpd.pid which will need removing.
Get one of these two up and running (preferably Apache) and Bob is your uncle... :)
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