Magento

Hi

I`m working on a relatively simple Magento site that right now won`t require development but I want to be able to demo the site in a staging area and promote aspects of that site to a live site.
A number of articles on the web discuss techniques for managing code changes and dumping out the database and restoring, however, I was wondering if someone had a technique for the following:

Promoting from staging to live:
- Categories
- Attributes
- CMS changes and design changes
- Configuration settings eg. Header, footer, logo images etc

Whilst not promoting the products, customers, orders etc.

Thanks!