This website is your one stop to make a successful blog. Basically blog is also a website with some advance features. In this page, we will try to understand what the actual diference between blog and website.
Website
Main and most important characteristic of the website is, website have static pages. Website pages are not updated very often. Example of website pages are; about us page, or contact page, etc. These page you will not change that often. Pages in a website can be organized hierarchically; pages might act as parent or child page to one another. Website pages are not included in RSS Feeds. The kinds of company make website are which don’t update information very often. Website Pages are not date driven. But if company need to provide regularly updated pages like news section, then blog like features need to be implemented in the website (by adding scripts or codes to the website) . Of course, website and blog can co-exist.
Blog
Blog are also type of the website. Blog are dynamic in nature. The dynamic Pages of blog are known as posts. Posts are basically articles posted in website which are organized by date, category or tags. Posts of the blog are date driven in ascending order, newest at top and older at bottom. Blogs are great if you want to provide your user get up-to-date information about news, or tutorials etc. Blog articles are included in RSS Feeds.
Which is best for you? – Blog or Website?
Blog and website both are same in layout structure. Technically Website can be created with HTML only (a language to make basic website). To create a Blog you need CMS (Content Management System), which consist of HTML, PHP and CSS i.e. three different languages. Now days you have several open (free to use) CMS software options like WordPress, Joomla or Drupal you can use to create blog and static website. In CMS Dynamic articles are known as posts and static articles are known as Pages.
Case Study: Let’s have a case study to clear the concept of blog or website, and which suits your needs. Assume you have a website which tells people ‘how to use an internet explorer to surf internet’. Now your website should have static step by step procedures about surfing internet e.g.
- Turn on the computer
- Open internet explorer by clicking desktop icon
- Type URL you wish to surf
- And so on….
Now assume you are a beginner and you don’t know anything about surfing internet. Then this website will be great helpful to you because it’s static (Will not change and whenever you need to see it again, it will be there for you), it’s organized with step by step procedures and it’s properly linked to next step of the tutorials.
Let’s say you have a blog only with the static website, which have articles organized by date. You might have the same tutorial about internet surfing in your blog which was written last year some time. As your articles are organized by date, users have to dig down in your archive to find out the article. And if you user won’t able to find the desired information he required he will not come to your site again and you will lose your valuable user.
Now let’s say you have a static website and a blog built in. So if users have already studied your static website then at this point he might be ready to learn advance features in internet surfing e.g. installing other software to surf, using built in functions, or adding plugins etc. In blog you can publish advance trips and tricks articles to make your user professional in internet surfing. Hence blog is more useful if you want to have your user current up-to-date information about your website topic.
What we recommend?
For Website: Use Joomla or Drupal to create static website or website with user interactivity. Both are free CMS. You just need to buy hosting plan or server space on internet to host your installed files. Hosting is really cheaper in now days from $10/month to $15/month. But you have to learn how to install and customize CMS for your requirements. There are tones of you tube videos and articles related to that.
For Blog: We strongly recommend using WordPress for your blog. WordPress is mainly structured for blog. It is great CMS. As in Joomla and Drupal, WordPress also needs to have server space to host installed files. There are also free versions of WordPress and blogger, for creating free blog. If you are beginner you can start your free blogging with wordpress.com and blogger.com. You can also go through our WordPress and blogger tutorial section for more information. If you are beginner you can start with free blogging to find out concept and working of the blogs.
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