Well thank God for friends. Even if they do live in Ireland for most of the year. My website was build by my friend Barry who, when he migrated to Ireland, had to leave me to run it. I managed to update it once, about a year ago, but it's lain in horrible, pixellated disuse ever since. UNTIL - he came back to the Isle of Wight for a visit. Naturally, I imprisoned him here, bribed him with Lincolnshire sausages, bacon, eggs, and copious quantities of Italian coffee, and tea, and let him loose on uploading my revisions to the host, and teaching me where I was going wrong. Had I thought this would be a simple operation, and I had made an elementary error, I would have done myself a bad turn: he had appalling problems - the synchronicity between the website-building software and my hosting company was not, shall we say, great. Language ensued (I hadn't realized either of us knew such words). We had to have recourse to online chat with the host company, in Canada I think. I rather lost track of where it was...... Three hours of "there was an error" messages later - we sort of knew there was an error: how about a hint as to where it might lie, hmmm? - and after young Aaron, our first responder, had been replaced by the older Samuels (hallo lads: recovered yet?) the fatal flaw was revealed. At last we were able to upload the revised site. Samuels instructed us to "Have a nice day" - just the teensiest bit late, to be entirely candid - and at last we sank back in relief: as presumably did he. Or in short, www.isleofwightlandscapes.net is not only back in all its glory, and considerably updated, all pixellation removed, new pictures on the Buy page (I'd go there now if I were you: don't hold back) and on the Gallery, but it will be updated on a regular basis now that I know what I'm doing (and more to the point, now that the settings have been saved). Could I have done this myself? I think not - I think I would have had to abandon the whole project and let the site die, because I do have a bit of a blood pressure problem, and I could feel it rising to dangerous levels; as it was, I'm only just recovering my equanimity a day later; and because of varifocal lenses my focus kept shifting when I tried it myself - the flaming password, the file transfer details, swam before my peering, squinting eyes. And I should have been very, very fed up. But it's done now: and this degree of industry deserves reward, so go and have a look, at least! Oh, and sign up to my blog as well, as below. Or I'm just wasting my sweetness on the desert air, as the poet has it (frequently, they tell me) and what's the good of that, eh? None at all. Off you go then. You know it makes sense. www.isleofwightlandscapes.net www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk