Guys, I don't know how to make this any clearer. I don't understand anything about hosting, servers or anything even remotely related to any of that. I am also not being able to find any information in regard to any of this that doesn't assume I know what they're talking about.

The bottom line is that I want to be able to develop pages on my machine and view them before I upload them. If I could do it without turning my machine into a server, I would, but I don't know how. Isn't there some kind of mySQL emulator or something so I don't have to do all this?? It seems kind of ridiculous to have to go through all this hassle just to create a web page.

Anyway, here's a mySQL dialog and I have no idea what to fill in the blanks.