FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol – a pretty popular method for exchanging website files between a home PC and a web server. With an FTP software program like CuteFTP or FileZilla, you can establish a connection to the server and see its content in one pane, while the files on your computer will be displayed in another pane within the program window. All you need to do to send files or whole folders in either direction is to mark them and then to drag them from one pane to the other. File Transfer Protocol is preferred by a lot of users because you can set up different FTP accounts and each of them can be limited to connect to just one folder on the server, so a designer, for instance, can do their task without being able to view any other folder in the website hosting account. What’s more, the presence of different FTP accounts will also allow you to build numerous sites with web design applications like Dreamweaver or FrontPage and to upload them to their specific directories on the server.