Localhost vs. real deal in Joomla web development

[abrodski]

Hello!
My question is this:
Is there any difference between the web site built with Joomla that I develop on localhost or if I develop it as a real web site (either on my home server or on hosting)...
To put it differently, when I build a Joomla site from scratch...what's the best policy...
1) to make the site on a localhost and then transfer it to a hosting;
2) to have a domain name ready and have a hosting platform and to develop a Joomla web site from the very start there and keep it there after its done ?

[ergophobe]

I always build locally and then transfer to a live server, unless it's a quick Wordpress blog or something that doesn't involve much custom stuff.

BUT, I don't build on localhost. I set my computer up with a domain of my choosing. So let's say the final domain will be example.com, I set up my testbed so that the site I'm building is on my computer, but resolves to either example.loc or example.com

If I choose example.loc, that let's me access both the local and live versions simultaneously, but there is the chance that having a different domain will screw things up. If I want to mirror the situation as exactly as possible, I make it run as example.com on my local machine.

I first started doing this after this thread
[webmasterworld.com...]

Hmmm surprises me it was that recent (2004)... I would have said I'd been doing it since about 2000, but that thread proves otherwise!

[ergophobe]

Another thread on same topic
[webmasterworld.com...]

[abrodski]

And if I choose to go with a development on a hosting...in this case...So I should download and unzip Joomla....then upload it to public_html by using FileZilla Client...and then create in PhpMyAdmin a db for Joomla and install Joomla WHILE its already on live server?
Because, there's another option...I can install Joomla on localhost and right after that upload htdocs to public_html...what's better? Probably the first option,huh ?