caling all web designers joomla help needed!

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Originally Posted by eastybeasty

basically any help would be appreciated. i dont even know how to update joomla etc in a different place to where I currently have it online so any changes I make wont mess up my existing site!

http://www.wampserver.com/en/
or
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html

will let you emulate a web server on a local machine.

https://www.akeebabackup.com/softwar...ba-backup.html

the free version of this will let you make an installable version of your website, basically back it up and restore it anywhere, locally then you can tweak and play without damaging your live site.