moving from local to live

How hard is it to move a local development site to a live site?

Do you only have to do a search and replace on the urls in the database?

I have been using this https://interconnectit.com/124/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
for search and replace on databases,
based on a recommendation in this forum.

This is my 1st time to develop locally on my computer, and I want to avoid any disasters when going to a live site.

EDIT… using MAMP by the way, and I have been doing fairly well so far.