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Before you begin your online publishing project, one decision you need to make is whether to publish a blog or a Web site.
Web sites have static pages; this means your home (front) page remains the same every time someone visits, as does the rest of the site.
Blogs are mini Web sites with one major difference; the home page will change every time you add content. Appearing in reverse chronological order, your most recent entry is seen at the top of the home page, older entries run below that.
Technorati is now tracking in excess of 91 million blogs, and increasingly blogs are becoming more accepted as a way to establish an online presence.
On WordPress.com, when it comes to blogs vs. Web sites, everything else is pretty much the same:
- It is free
- It is easy to set up and use
- You don’t need to learn HTML
- There are many design templates to choose from
- Your site can be public or private
- You choose whether visitors can comment or not
- Statistics are updated daily
- Akismet anti spam software is included
- Advertisements are not placed on your site
- Posts are backed up hourly
- Google likes WordPress.com sites
Recently, I read a nice post by you on making a Blog Plan. I was about to forward the link to a few people. When I refreshed the page, I noticed that the post has been deleted! Where is this post and why was it deleted? Thanks.
P.S. I’ll be at WordCamp.
Thanks Chuck
I’m trying to compile some stuff for the teachers at my little peoples school who want to start blogging, but are hesitant as they are not used to the technology, and worried it will be really hard. The plan is to give them easy to find, easy to read information. (doing a great job huh
I still have much to learn about WordPess myself (especially WordPress.com), and could not quite work out how to make it do what I needed to do; this is the reason the post has been moving around.
It hasn’t disappeared, it has just been moved to a new home; didn’t want to confuse the Googlebot
You can read Make a Blog Plan (and more) at How to build a Site
Sorry for the confusion