Blogs versus Websites
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Surprisingly, this is not an easy question to answer.
Websites give you a lot of freedom. You can upload templates, design perfectly fitting graphics and logos, and have the ability to use any and all software to create them. They are easy to design as well because of HTML editors like Dreamweaver and Frontpage.
Blogs, which are like a Movable Type website, also a lot of the same freedoms. You can use all kinds of templates, use most software available, and also design well fitting graphics. Blogs have different types of platforms as well, with the most nobable being perhaps Blogger and Wordpress.
Currently, I’d prefer to use a blog. Which is against the way I was taught to create websites. I was taught to hardcode HTML, learn tables, frames, the whole nine yards. Blogs and websites can both do normal HTML coding, and even the newer coding of CSS and PHP. So neither one really has an advantage there.
The main reason I like blogs is theri ability to organize a large amount of webpages while being easy to update at the same time. Blogger is a simpler version of the blog platform but they still let you somewhat organize your pages into categories and/or keywords. Wordpress really opens the doors to you with getting as narrow as Meta and Keywords for each page or post. Some of this would need to be done by hand even in an HTML editor.
I think the biggest advantage blogs have over websites is the “blog and ping” method. Where you make a post, ping that post through a web server like Ping-o-matic, and wait for the search engine spiders to come and index your new updated material. Blog feeds(RSS or Atom) are often used on normal websites in a pseudo-way to keep the search engine spiders coming back to accomplish the same purpose. Some blog programs can be set to do this pinging automatically.
Also, something I’ve noticed with the rise of Web 2.0, is that a blog can take more advantage of the tools of this new generation of websites. A blog feed gets your site out to places it may never have gotten before, whereas a website has no access to such a “feed”.
I own both blog sites and normal websites, but the rate the internet is evolving in Web 2.0 technology, the sites that can keep up best will likely survive and continue to get that all-important traffic. Right now, I think blog’s beat websites by a nose, but it’s extending its lead everyday.
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