Develop your Joomla site on your own network. You will be amazed how much faster you will get things done.

I am pretty stubborn sometimes. When I am creating a new Joomla site I will typically upload it to my webspace and edit things around to my liking. I have to wait on the occasional page refresh and FTP up and down constantly. Recently I tried out some of the more popular standalone server programs and was really impressed with how far they came along. I was able to install most of them in under 5 minutes with no complications. Editing sites was lightning fast and there is no FTP upload/download wait time.

Depending on what operating system you use, I have two options to recommend.