Why have a web site or a blog? Everything you read on the web can be linked there. Short notes of ideas, pictures, documents can be scanned and uploaded. You can make a backup copy of everything and put it on your hard disk or on a thumb drive.
I view a blog as a running series of comments or reports, like a syndicated column in a newspaper. A web site is a scrapbook, a collection of interesting things. It is a good place to put things that you want to be able to refer to. The link can be sent to anyone who can then page through the material or be directed to a specific page.
Well before the term "the cloud" became popular to mean storage somewhere on the web, Google and many other types of programs used the web to connect one computer to another for some purpose. The nice thing about a web site is that it is accessible from any computer connected to the internet. So, at a friend's house, you can use his computer to tap into your site, your writings, your references, your reading lists.
It is easier to use Google's free Sites if you have a Gmail account. That is simply an email account with its own email address. The log-on and password for that account are the entry to all of Google's very considerable services and products. To find any of the things I have been mentioning, go to the Google search page, the familiar one with the multi-colored "Google" in the middle of it. Across the top, in white letters on a black background, find "Gmail" near the middle of the black bar. Click on Gmail and go through the steps to get a Gmail account if you don't already have one. Return to the Google search page and choose "More" from the right end of the black bar of links at the top. Click on More and at the bottom of the drop-down menu, click on "Even More". That takes you to a page that lists most of the Google services. The 5th batch is called "Home and Office" and includes the link to Google Sites. Click on it and get started.
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Bill
Main blog: Fear, Fun and Filoz
Main web site: Kirbyvariety
