WinSCP Is An Invaluable Tool For Webmasters With Multiple Sites.
by Matt on , under Web Development
Happy New Year to everyone. Hope you enjoyed the last “festive” post there. I thought it had to be said as I’m sick and tired of 1and1 bullying people. And I noticed I’ve lost 14 subscribers in a day after the post. Huzzah!
Anyway onto something useful. I highly recommend you all check out WinSCP if you haven’t already. What it allows you to do is to access your webspace with an Windows Explorer like interface making editing webpages on your server easy. This is especially handy if you’re managing multiple sites like myself.
The best bit is that you can associate files to open with certain programs within WinSCP. In the screenshot below I’ve illustrated how I’ve set up WinSCP to open html, php and css files within Dreamweaver.
With this association created everytime I double click on a file within WinSCP it will automatically open up in Dreamweaver and the best bit is that any changes that I make to that file whilst Dreamweaver is open are saved. This is a much more flexible approach than simply defining a site for every website you create within Dreamweaver itself. You can associate any file type to open with any application on your computer too so you could have images open within Photoshop or text files within Notepad.
Many thanks to the Vitty for introducing me to this app. It’ll hopefully change the way you work for the better if it hasn’t already done so.
