I have my spiffy new Mac Book 13 inch which is running XP in parallels and can run Linux if I need/want to (I probably will). One of the things I want to do with this is develop and improve a number of my labs web pages. Im asking those of you who might have a lot of experience with web page development about strategies and software to do this.

For instance, do you recommend setting up an Apache server on the notebook and doing a mock up of the sites and editing from that? Or is just getting the pages and viewing them with a browser or editor?

Is there a HTML editing package that people recommend?

Also, I will want to work on this offline. Is there a way (preferably a program that does this) to automatically or with minimal effort download a web site or pages and then work with them locally and upload them back to the site?

Generally, Im looking for strategies and tips for doing development offline. Thanks for any suggestions.