Blah. I don't think I can be very eloquent with this, for lack on knowledge on the technical terms but..

I own a domain (which I have yet to do anything with :P) but I have two friends who have designed beautiful sites- and have awful hosts. I'd like to give both of them a subdomain.. but my problem is.. I'd like to make uploading and editing easy for them. I'm trying to figure out if I can get some sort of file manager up; a FTP feature thats intergrated into the browser? I've looked but can't easily find any program that will do that for me..

:\ So yeah.. Basically just wondering if anyone can help me out with this. Thanks in advance if you can :D

Did you look at any books for doing that sort of thing?

Some hosts will allow you to access FTP through your browser, you don't need a program for it. This is the usual path to put in your address bar:
ftp://username:password@ftp.yourhost.com
Although I find actual programs easier anyway. ;)

As for setting something up for hostees, first see if your host allows you to have multiple FTP accounts. Then you'd be able to set up an account for each of them.

and if that doesnt work you can alwayse use something like PHP or Perl for uploading, and even make a file manager out of it using loops and what not. It actually isnt that hard to do once you get the hang of it. THoguh i am not a PHP expert i can still do a few odd little things here and there.