One idea would be to use Subversion. You could set up a subversion repository on your own web site’s host, then check out the repository on your PC. After you’ve made the changes you want, you could commit them to the repository, then check them out on the host machine of your client. The client’s host machine would update whatever files you had changed.

This depends, of course, on your client’s web host letting you check out subversion repositories on their machines.

What I really want is a standalone version of what most IDEs have. I want to develop on my local computer, get all the files working the way I want, and then have it show me which ones are changed relative to the remote site. I want to hit one button and either move all those changed files up to the server (or do the reverse and overwrite my local ones if I’ve messed up and I want to go back).

The secure transfer would be awesome (but not required).

Anyone know of a product that does this? (I’m happy with using Xemacs for my editor and I don’t want to use Eclipse or any other IDE.)

Maria