You dont have to host it on the internet, you can host a website from your computer for testing purposes. Just create a file with the .html extension and open it with windows explorer. Viola!

Entire website content here.

Copy and past the code above and save it as (website.html). Then modify it however you want, there are tons of tutorials and such on the internet.

don’t experiment with a production server!

you should install a server package like WAPP (postgresql) or WAMP (Mysql) or XAMPP (apache’s version , mysql).
these have apache web server, PHP web server scripting, and either mysql or postgresql database preconfigured (and they may have more as in the case of xampp, such as mercury mail server and filezilla ftp server).

I would suggest WAMP or XAMPP. xampp puts everything into c:xampp and has problems on newer versions of windows, so I suggest WAMP.

you should look for the htdocs (it might be called htdocs in WAMP, it is in XAMPP) directory. that is where your html files should go.
index.html or index.xhtml is your main/root/home page. it could also be index.php or index.shtml, but I don’t think it might be configured for shtml. I highly suggest using HTML 4.01. you can always upgrade to version 5.

use lowercase tags and attributes as a practice and you won’t have to convert hardly anything later.

since apache and the database are services, you can only install one of them. but there is a way to configure apache to do virtual hosting to simulate multiple sites in multiple separate directories of your choice from a single network card, and you can set up your hosts file so that it has entries like
192.168.1.100 mycomputername mywebsite1 mywebsite2

and you may need to change this often.
so then you can do things like
http://mywebsite1 http://mywebsite2/code.html
in your browser.
but don’t put in .com’s or such like in there, or you won’t be able to visit them except in your local machine.

What Michael said.

If you put it on the web, it’s ‘live’.

I personally recommend Hostgator. They offer unlimited disk space and bandwdith, great uptime, tons of features, and excellent support. To learn more, go to: http://webspacehq.net/

Don’t upload your website to the main folder. Create another folder (such as /dev) and make sure to implement a robots.txt file before you upload anything. This tells search engines not to crawl that folder. To learn more, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard

When you’re ready to make it go live, just move your files to the main folder.

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Putting it on the internet is not a bad thing at all, at least then you can easily share your work, and ask others for advice without opening up your network at home.
If you are simply just wanting to EXPERIMENT with web development, I would no way recommend setting up your own home web server, as that is simply just a complete waste of time. Do not worry at all about it being ‘live’ online, as you can get a web host that allows you to password protect your website anyway. So get yourself a cheap, web host, which offers instant activation and possibly cPanel – a leading web hosting control panel, to allow you get set up straight away.

Advantages of having it online also is that you have access to far more features, and also you can see what your site looks like on other computers then too.