It's been a while since I made an entry to this blog. Work and other commitments have taken over my life for the last few weeks, but that's good news of course. Time for a catch-up soon hopefully and I will fill in the blanks.
There are log updates for band 2 and medium wave, though conditions haven't been too inspiring. A half decent spell of tropo occurred earlier in March. Tropo seems to be a rare breed these days but that's probably understandable due to the time of the year and this awful extended winter we are having.
Most of my computer time has been devoted to updating my Google Sites website, but I am discovering an ever increasing amount of drawbacks with this, not least the lack of a site backing-up facility. While Google Sites is a free service I don't expect to have everything handed to me on a plate for nothing, but you'd think there would at least be a basic backing-up facility like you have with Blogger. I have therefore been looking at other free sites like Wix, but it seems they don't offer this either. I took a brief look at Webstarts, who offer HTML editing and site backups, but the control panel is so flaky it hurts. The free Webs service is also too basic for my needs. I really like the Wix system though. It's very easy to use and doesn't seem to fall over.
So it looks like I will still be using a combination of different facilities to achieve my aim. Blogger is a personal favourite - it's simple, but so easy to use and does the job well. I have tried platforms like Wordpress and Joomla in the past but they have always been hacked into, despite keeping the software and security side up-to-date. I will probably go with Wix for static web pages while using Photobucket, Picasa, Youtube, Box and Mediafire for various files, plus the excellent Google Drive for documents.
