I am looking for a general "how to" for modifying my site locally and then uploading to my web server. When I say modify, I don't mean the layout, I mean adding products, categories, manufacturers, shipping, tax etc. etc.
1. Should I load my site in VWD or configure to run in iis?
2. My site is currently live and I didn't set it up locally first, I installed direct to my web server. Is this going to be a problem? Should I just download all my server files and db and connect to these locally?
3. What should the "ConnectionStrings.config" be to connect locally? I tried modifying this file to point to a local database but I keep getting login issues when launching my site. I copied a "ConnectionStrings.config" from a different local install that works fine, changed the database and set the same user as dbo on both databases. Still get authentication issues though.
4. Any other tips would be great...!
Thanks in advance.