Comments on: The difference between a website and a blog

By: H. Shekhar

H. Shekhar — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:37:30 +0000

Website :
Clear category structure.
Posts are frequent and even.
People Find them from website easily due to clear site links hierarchy.

Blog..
Topics may not be same all day in a category a bit deviation may be allowed.
People find individual posts by search engines and not usualy from site.
Tone of persuation is friendly.

By: botez

botez — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:07:59 +0000

MMM… it’s quite a big difference betwen a blog and a website. First of all the blog is more active, more dinamic, and it can provide fresh information about something even if it’s a company or a privat person. It’s not an acurate way of speaching to say that blog is only a matter of person. Definatily, the website has a totaly different structure and development than a blog.

By: pnkguru

pnkguru — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:46:17 +0000

Dear sir,

I wanted to know “the difference between a website and a blog”, but you all have totally confused me”

Making of a superfine business blog and its presentation comes very closer to a website. To a visitor it is almost same. the blog contains all the introduction/home-products/ services, sales page and contact details of a website.

My interest is to know, whether the website has more power to pull more traffic in a normal course, than a blog. Anybody can tell me a xxx.com has more power to bring more people than a xxx.blogspot.com.

Please enlighten me whether the search engine do favor in bringing more people because of domain registration.
I have a beautiful blog equal to website:

http://breastsandblouses.blogspot.com/

Please comment.

pnkguru
business strategist

By: willyams

willyams — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:49:08 +0000

It is confusing me, I still don’t understand the difference between website and blog. It looks like the same. Since I try to build a website, I need more information about web world.

By: iili

iili — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:58:53 +0000

just cannot be technology, some bloggers do get really creative and techie with their blog while some corporate or institutional websites are pathetic.
I agree with SmartMoney.
If German shepherds are scarry what about a chihuahua !!

By: radiant

radiant — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:05:35 +0000

All blogs are websites too but with a different attitude.

http://thelivejournal.blogspot.com/2008/06/difference-between-website-and-blog.html

Hope this will help!

By: kugiant

kugiant — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:38:35 +0000

Ahhhhhh….I am quite confusing btw blog & website….there are many thing that I need to know..

By: Gbolade Egberongbe

Gbolade Egberongbe — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:21:14 +0000

I am not a computer guru like you all. But my opinion regarding the difference btw a blog and a website is that a web site is MOST OFTEN static while a blog is DYNAMIC ALL THE TIME.
A WEBSITE is ” This is what I have to say or offer, should you need to contact me regarding my offer/product/service, EMAIL ME at email@address.com”
A BLOG on the other hand is a webpage that says “This is MY OPINION about this issue, You may share your opinion as well regarding this Issue”.
And a web log of the various opinions [i.e communications between the blogger and the world at large on this particular issue] are then updated on THIS blogsite.

Please don’t blame me if I am wrong but isn’t a blog like a personal chatroom with a log of the various conversations?????

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:19:33 +0000

Crazy, but just thought I had to share – so if i create a set of web pages, with a navigation structure (page menu nav bar) and dependency – all of the pages, support feedback, inline comments, text inserts,date & time stamp, support rss – will it be a Personal website or a blog :) Cheers! :) Maybe I’m just being a jerk out to try and prove a point! Peace.

By: u

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:18:38 +0000

i didn’t understand what really is the difference between blog and website????????????????????????

By: Mongrielle

Mongrielle — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:07:31 +0000

i was looking up this question (difference blog and website) because I am an ignorant animal and wanted to know i guess which is the most accessible – it seemed like with blogs – anyways the ones ive done i.e. http://www.dailydogger.blogstream.com – just (putting it politely) a stream of (semi)consciousness and the other one wwwdoggerblog.blogspot.com a phalanx of photies
whereas with web because you can link to different pages it’s a bit more manageable/digestible. I guess you can do both in either format but blog is easier for me cos im not good at HTML.

By: dannyFoo

dannyFoo — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:19:04 +0000

I think I understood where was Peter coming with that. The confusion might really start when company websites have a blog.

To me a blog is the honest opinion of the person who posts and speaks from their point of view without care that it might tarnish the identity people assumed them at first.

A website or to be more precise, a company’s website should be a place where information about the company is produced for the customers. Newsletters are content made for customers. A blog mailing list is something like a newsletter but it’s just the technology and not the content.

I think overall, I have to agree with Peter that a blog is most definetely aimed at the people. Anyway, just my 2 cents. Cheers.

By: Smart Money

Smart Money — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:40:48 +0000

In my opinion your comparison it like comparing dogs to german sheppards. A blog is a type of website. A website is type of computer application, etc.

Of course not every dog is pure-bred, same goes for websites.

By: flashlight

flashlight — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:13:39 +0000

Nicholas, I was totally ready to leave the whole blog definition thing alone from now on, but I think you’ve offered the best description I’ve yet to see. Well done. May I quote you?

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:07:54 +0000

I agree with Andy with some small differences on his definition of a blog (did you grab this from a source or some up with on your own). I think he uses an older definition that is no longer true. Here’s how I would define it.

Blog: an online publication, usually published as a web site; contains short posts or articles displayed in reverse chronological order.

Although most blogs are a type of website (or at least part of one), they don’t have to be. In the future, blogs may not publish to a website, they could just as easy publish only to a RSS file. Certainly blogs don’t have to be personal thoughts. They don’t even have to be original thoughts. If that were the case, spam blogs could not exist, and to all of our displeasure they do exist.

Any interconnected set of web pages that you visit is a website. That’s a pretty general definition and contains just about anything including almost all blogs.

By: flashlight

flashlight — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:24:30 +0000

Apparently I should be wrong more often: it makes for good conversation!

I give! I give!

Andy hit the nail on the head with his last line: “…everyone must find their own solutions for acheiving this.”

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:24:01 +0000

Website: A set of interconnected webpages, usually including a homepage, generally located on the same server, and prepared and maintained as a collection of information by a person, group, or organization.

Blog: an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog, Web log

Therefore, a blog is a subset of webpage. Yes, it is also published via RSS feeds, but its home is on a website.

A website may incorporate many elements, including but not limited to a blog, a forum, static pages, e-commerce solution. Hopefully these are interconnected in a seamless way so as to further the aims and mission of the individual or organisation running it.

I guess I keep forgetting that many people here are business-focussed, therefore a website only talks to customers. This is wrong. Even “potential customers” is still wrong. A website communicates to people just as a blog does – those people may happen to become customers if the site is commerce-based in any way.

I’m not sure why we get so bogged down in buzz words all the time. A blog is just one tool in an arsenal of on and offline methods.

This article doesn’t get to the heartt of the matter at all – it confuses when the heart of the matter is “communication” and “community” – everyone must find their own solutions for acheiving this.

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:27:10 +0000

Not sure how that got so messed up. “I think the real distinction is that a blog talks with them, while a website talks at them.”

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:26:11 +0000

I have to add to the chorus of disagreement. I have personal and business blogs. I think the real distinction might be that a blog talks withat them. Of course, the germ of truth in what you are saying is that even for a business oriented blog, it has great potential for being an interactive, personal medium compared to the flat postcard on the internet of a typical webpage or even the faceless ecommerce store on the internet. A blog has the potential to help the business owners/managers see the customers as people and hopefully let the customers know they are more than just dollar signs.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:58:07 +0000

I’d argue that a company can have a blog just as a company can have a newsletter, magazine, newspaper, website etc.

The distinction between blog and website is something I have been thinking about, but on a different note.

Is an online newspaper a blog? Our local paper has just put up a “blog” for the Lions’ tour of New Zealand here:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1500899&ObjectID=10328455

I’m not sure I’d class it a blog… or is it?