As mentioned earlier, one of the things I did recently was move to a hosted solution. My poor cable modem was threatening a strike.

One of the side affects of this move was the tedium of having to move things over FTP everytime I wanted to add or change something on the site. Everyone kept telling me that I should get an FTP client, but I am averse to adding an application that does something Windows has built in (Explorer) unless there is truly a benefit.

Along comes Net Drive. Before we go any further, there is some gray area about whether or not you should be able to download Net Drive. I found the article about it on Engadget, though the circumstance where they are allowing you to download it may be suspect, so please make sure to real the EULA when installing.

Back to the fun part. Basically what Net Drive does is allow you to 'mount' your FTP site as a drive in My Computer. Honestly, this is something Windows should support out of the box. This isnt 1990 any more.

Having said that, no more Explorer for FTP, no more classic FTP clients. Open My Computer, open the X: drive and bam. I am moving things to my site.

*That* is how the internet was made to be used.