The FTPS method is specified by the port number that you choose when you are connecting. Using EW4 with FTP over SSL (FTPS)ĮW4 supports both Implicit and Explicit FTPS, so the choice is up to you to decide which method to use. That's it for the simple stuff - now we'll take a look at the specific FTP topics that I've discussed in my other FTP client blog posts. Opening a site is straight-forward, and for the most part the user interface is the same whether you are opening a site over FTP/FTPS or over HTTP using WebDAV or FPSE.įig.

(Note: By 'predecessors' I mean earlier versions of Expression Web and FrontPage.) I'll explain more in the follow sections of this post. That being said, EW4 is a great web site editor and is a good FTP client, and EW4 is much better than its predecessors. Of course, it will take you several hours longer and it's a really big hassle, but sooner or later you'll get there.' (No comments about carbon footprint - please. If you take 17 different buses and then walk three or four blocks, you will eventually wind up where you want to go. From my perspective, that's pretty much like saying to someone, ' I know that you'd like to get across town and you already have a really nice car, but we're going to take that away.

It's possible to create 'add-ins' for Expression Web, but there's a lot of overhead associated with that. One minor personal issue that I have with Expression Web is that VBA was deprecated a while ago, so EW4 doesn't have a macro language that I can use to automate tasks like I would do with previous versions.

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