Thank you for the reply I appreciate it and it has cleared up a lot of things.
Is it possible then edit the site regularly locally with MAMP then ‘upload’ them to the real server on hostgator or would that be quite complex involving me moving the whole site over every time to do an edit.
I just think that it would be quite handy to have the option to make edits locally even with out an internet connection then once i’m happy I can transfer them to the real server and have them ‘live’. As long as there is a simple-ish way of doing that, is that possible?
Thanks once again.