For anyone that cares, I thought that I would share a way to make accessing your networked pi a little bit easier.

First set your raspberry pi to boot with a static ip address with this:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

paste this into the file, change the address and netmask to whatever you want (ideally it should be set to a number outside of your router's dhcp address pool)

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.2.203
netmask 255.255.255.0

quit and save.
Manually restart your network interfaces with:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

check that the changes worked by typing 'ifconfig'

Now your pi will always have the same ip address on your network. If you want to take it a step further, you can add an entry in your hosts file to turn your ip into a human readable address.

on windows navigate to: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
open the hosts file with any text editor.
At the end of the file add a line with your ip address, a space (or tab), then the human readable address you want to use.
for example, mine reads like this:

192.168.2.203 thegrid.com

just make sure that it's a .com that you would never really want to visit anyway.

Now, when you are using ssh, a web browser, or an ftp client; you can simply type in the human readable address. so in a web browser, thegrid.com takes me to my rom uploader on my raspberry pi. yay!

I hope that this helps!