The Difference Between Blogs and Websites

Blogs are completely different from the traditional web site. Unlike normal static web sites, blogs let you create new pages or posts, extremely easily by simply adding your text and title into a WYSIWYG editor and posting it.

The Wordpress platform through the use of templates automatically adds your post to your blog, creates the new page for you and inserts your new post into the correct category archive. By also using plug ins you are able to do a variety of tasks which are not possible with your traditional web site, for example you can automatically add tags to your posts, social networking buttons which enable readers to bookmark and share your post, add a forum to your blog, all from a  interface which is extremely user friendly.

Users can even maintain their blog without being online, you can write numerous articles and set them to be published on certain days at specific times automatically and with the built in technology of the blog platform, feed aggregators are notified immediately when a new post has been added to your blog, without user intervention.

Search engines love blogs because they are a source of fresh content and blogs are regularly updated.

The webmaster can get feedback both positive or negative on posts written on a blog by allowing the use of comments. Comments are a great way of collecting feedback, and allow you to gauge your readers and also get great ideas for new posts or articles. Through the blogging platform you can invite users and authors to submit their articles as well, and the admin panel allows you to easily control their access and privileges.

Blogs and blogging have exploded across the face of the Internet in the past few years, as more and more people discover the ease in which they can present their story, their ideas and thoughts to the world wide web, and with the development of technology such as social networking tools, it has become even more popular.

The blog is a development of technology which people can no longer ignore.