Hi everyone!

I used to manage all my websites with Dreamweaver as it was an easy tool to open a site, find a file, edit the file save directly to the web server. Ever since windows 10 came around, Dreamweaver would crash and take forever to load files. I found Aptana was a useful tool until I recently upgraded hosting companies that connects via SSH and Aptana cyphers don't work with my hosting company.

I can't be the only person in this situation so my question is, how do web design companies who manage hundreds of websites (I do have some wordpress sites but many html/php sites as well) with a tool/software that allows you to edit and save to the remote server?

My final option would be to purchase a monthly subscription to Adobe Dreamweaver but even that's concerning as it's a dying software and also don't like the price tag!

Thank you!

 

I use FileZilla. Free and easy to use.

I also use subversion tools, not free but they do all your synchronisation for you.

The sooner you drop dreamweaver the better. There are plenty of great alternative coding tools.

 

You can't edit files in filezilla or manage various websites

You edit using an editor and upload using FileZilla. 
 

Two different functions that shouldn’t be combined into one application.

Agencies and developers all use one tool to build and another to upload. You can automate and synchronise but you don’t do it all in one package.

You very rarely get people, and even more so professional companies and agencies who use FTP these days, or editors that save directly to the server.

Instead you'd use version control software, like Git, then you'd pull down the source code to your machine from a resource like github/gitlab etc, do your changes, and then push to back to github, then all your changes are in version control, with history, diffs, and you can even revert if something goes wrong.

Then on the push, a CICD integration would take over and deploy the website to our the server.

Of course there's steps missed out there, such as automated testing, build steps, deployment to a staging server, QA.

I honestly don't know how I'd cope these days without all of the above if I had to go back to the dark days of uploading everything manually!

sFTP is still widely used, more than you probably think!

Granted when you work for a large company or agency you're more likely to use some sort of version control because you're professional coders who know how to use them.

For the average person who just wants to get a web site up things like Git are way over their heads so sFTP provides them with a relatively easy way to upload and download their sites files.

 

You guys are missing the point... 

Website management software... Say you had 100 websites you worked on for clients. What tool/software do you use to open the site, edit code, save and upload... Just like dreamweaver or Aptana does. Seems those are deprecated software now but can't find anything to replace them.

When I use Windows my go to editors was https://www.webuilderapp.com/ - that did pretty much all I needed.