I remember about a year ago when I first started to build websites with PHP and MYSQL, every time I needed to edit something I had to re-upload it to the server and click refresh, which wasted TONS of time of mindless dragging/dropping in FTP.
Until the day I discovered WAMP Server, which installs PHP 5, Apache and MySQL on your computer so you can test your pages on a local server.
Just save your website files in its root folder and point your browser of choice (I hope it's not IE for your sake) to localhost/. From there you can open your projects, manage your databases and find the documentation for the full extent of WAMP's Server powers. WAMP is my best friend and it will be yours too.
