What makes a Blog different from a ‘regular website’?

By The Passion Diva on October 3rd, 2008

Let’s assume that a ‘regular website’ is a static HTML site, it is the database driven content that really sets it apart.

The lines between blogs and other types of websites are blurring as more business owners choose to build their site with a CMS. While many blogs are designed to look like a web journal, more and more are being designed to look like a regular website.

Because the content you enter into the blog is stored in a database, it can be distributed as a data feed. RSS is the feed that most blogs employ. With RSS, your content can be viewed through any RSS reader or aggregator on another website or on a computer or portable device.

You might be wondering what RRS stands for:

Another benefit to being database driven is that the script can accept and display comments on specific posts and can detect when other sites link to one of your blog posts.

For a business blog, a common choice is Wordpress.

Wordpress is feature rich. It is an Open Source script. This means that anyone can take the source code and edit it. A community of creative and talented people are constantly improving the code and releasing updates for free use.

Wordpress is flexible. It works with a variety of ‘plug ins’ which are like hacks for the base code of the scrip. When uploaded and activated, they make the blog script work differently.

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