[chalst]

The general approach of putting together your website on one machine, the coding machine, and publishing it to your server is one I use, although I prefer a complex build on my design machine and then rsync it with the server.

Checkout Chronicle (http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/chronicle/). I've put up a HN thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2186798).