Can I upload new pages and CSS to my server without disrupting my old site?

I've been tasked with updating a website. I'm quite new to Dreamweaver, but am reading forums and viewing tutorials on lynda.com. What i'm wondering is, can I upload a CSS file and a few html pages to our godaddy.com account via ftp and not disrupt what is currently there? I believe the previous site does not use any CSS. I just wanted to be able to provide a link that isn't connected to the current site to let the client see what progress has been made. So the site would be for example.
Old site home page (www.cars.com)
Test page with no link from site, just a private link emailed (www.cars.com/test)
My questions are would loading a CSS to the site interfere with the current site? Can that /test page navigate to other pages that I have linked to them if I upload those as well (www.cars.com/test/maps)? Should I create a new directory in godaddy.com's file directory to keep these separate?
Thanks for all the help. Any links or suggestions would be great. If I can provide more info that would help, just let me know.

I like to make a sub-folder called TEST.  yourdomain.com/TEST/
You can upload your new site to the TEST folder and it will not interfere with what's already on the server.
When you're finished debugging the new site, you can move contents from the TEST folder over to the root:  yourdomain.com/  and then delete the TEST folder.
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