was musing lately about the aggravation of maintaining web content in todays ISPscape.
One of mine (1&1) has these really long FTP usernames constructed by concatening the already obscure base username with the ftp site name...so you wind up with impossible to remember access info like username: u12787652333teamsys password:yourpassword.
Now if you maintain things from multiple computers, its gets tough to sync all your access info for the various client tools you use...e.g. ftp, ws-ftp, etc. etc. ......
Lots of my web content is in nature of tech tips, link lists, cheat sheets etc. I would really like something like a index list of files at the site, inside my browser window, and a [ right-mouse, open-with-program] type of functionality that would bring up the file, and write it back on exit.
The ISP had this FAQ note about FTP'ing with Internet Explorer that stated that you could upload this way with ftp://nodename.com/ types of URLS. I have seen this before as a way of reading web files , but writing??? no way , I assumed the author was confused, but decided to try it. They never actually stated HOW to do it, so I thought , well just put in the access info and see if some new IE wizzy pops up. None did, as expected so I was about to leave when I thought to give the old cut,copy, paste paradigm a try.....it worked!!
Well thats nifty, I thought , but I detest IE on general principle, so I bet Firefox would support this as well but it didn't. Then came across FireFTP extention.
Could not get it to work from the address line as advertized but did get it to work from the tools menu. I was impressed with its speed and usability, integration with Firefox, ability to manage accounts etc. Operated very similar to my old favorite WS_FTP.
None of this solved my problem with access information portability, or gave me exactly what I was looking for , but got me closer.....
bye for now.
