I almost never FTP stuff except when I have to get a single, unimportant file somewhere or if we're sharing stuff between friends' houses. Springloops has a us

I almost never FTP stuff except when I have to get a single, unimportant file somewhere or if we're sharing stuff between friends' houses. Springloops has a useful deploy-by-ftp feature. When you commit a change using their Subversion host it automatically pushes it out to the development or production server. It's easy for designers to use since they can update a jpg or two for a client, commit a change, then hit refresh on the live site and it shows up. I know it's not perfect, but for small web shops and non-technical people, it works great.