How to build your first website in six hours (with a hangover)

Having built a number of WordPress sites myself, I liked your write-up a lot. Very understandable for the beginner. My son (age 12) is about to build a website for his Boy Scout troop and your explanation of the steps will help a lot.

(Hangover optional for Boy Scouts, of course.)

Now. If only someone would write up a similarly-simple blog post about setting up a local development environment on a Mac, with brain-dead instructions on how to roll the finished website (and future updates) to the remote host (without brain damage) . . . .

(Let me just say I have wrestled with both MAMP and Bitnami and while they are pretty good, both inflict their own increment of brain damage.)