The Difference Between Blogs and Websites

By Bruce · Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

During my last seminar, I was asked, “what is the difference between blogs and regular websites.” Answer, blogs are interactive and easy to manage, and regular websites are “clunky” and are complicated to manage. I answer this from the standpoint of the website/blog owner. A website owner can hire a “webmaster” but it can cost a lot in the long run and there is no “control” directly from the website owner of the site. They are at a disadvantage because they know nothing of HTML code to control content on their sites.

On the other hand, a blog has a very user friendly administration area where they can add their own content. Yes, the learning curve is still there to add content, but it only takes maybe days, at most to learn.

You can find so many resources on the internet, whether through video or articles that you can find out for yourself that can teach you how to manage a blog.

For the long run, blogs are your best bet because, not only can the owner of the site manage it, but they can also grow the blog, with gaining more knowledge of how to creatively add features to it. Some of my clients who knew nothing of how to manage a blog, learned how to insert a post, moderate a comment, and add a picture in less than a week. From there, they will learn how to insert videos, add their own widgets and change the layout of the blog.