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by egypturnash 4772 days ago
FTP: lots of graphical clients available for all OSs, your host can probably give you a bookmark to drop into one for a Windows client and a Mac client, and if they don't it's pretty easy to make a new bookmark pointing to your server with your login/password. You're done, start uploading stuff!

Git: Hi! Let me teach you about version control! We'll start with the command line version. Also you may have to ask your host to turn on Git access to your files. And the likelyhood of them making it easy for you to just drop one file into a simple graphical Git client is close to zero.

Who in your life is clueless about computers? Imagine you're them.

Which one looks more appealing? Which one looks scary and intimidating and demands that you learn a thousand new things on top of learning all the stuff you'll have to learn to get a website up?

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@pornelski:

> They say git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.