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**LordKaT** · 07-31-2006, 11:07 PM

I'm curious to find out how everyone here classifies a "blog" and a "website"

I've received several different replies for Geekstreak so far, ranging from "it's a blog" to "nice website" to "what a pile of ****"

What do you guys think seperates a blog from a website?

**Hoang** · 07-31-2006, 11:08 PM

That looks like a website to me.

A blog has more of a journal look to it and usually you'll be able to tell right away if it's a blog.

**Plugin-Developer** · 07-31-2006, 11:21 PM

There are a lot of ways to define a blog. In Rachel Blood's book, she defines a blog as a website with entires (posts) arranged in reverse chronological order.

Recently, a lot of blogging afficionados have said that a website isn't a blog unless it has comments and trackbacks turned on. I disagree. A lot of blogs who don't want to deal with comment spam just turn comments off, which I think is very valid.

Some people say that just because you're using blogging software, that you have a blog. For example, Expression Engine or WordPress. Again, I have to disagree. Both of those examples can be turned into full-fledged CMSes with a careful choice of plugins and theme.

If you want to call it a blog, you can call it a blog. If you want to call it a website with a CMS, so do it. It's really kind of a fuzzy line.

As far as your website goes, I'd say it's a website. I don't see dates or more than one post on the first page. On first impression, I see nothing that makes it look like a blog.

-Nick

**Lpspider** · 07-31-2006, 11:40 PM

They've seemed to have integrated and mixed a lot recently. There's little difference nowadays.

**Tran** · 07-31-2006, 11:41 PM

Blog:
Anything that seems just like information after information.

Website:
Has content other than just the basics.. Provides users a better reason to come back.

**Hoang** · 07-31-2006, 11:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tran

Blog:
Anything that seems just like information after information.

Website:
Has content other than just the basics.. Provides users a better reason to come back.

That's pretty vague. Blogs (the good ones) provides users a reason to come back also.

But uhhh, isn't a blog a website anyway?

Quote:

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.

It pretty much boils down to what you wanna call it.

**Lpspider** · 07-31-2006, 11:56 PM

^ indeed.

Thing is, people's definitions vary, so there isn't a solid definition to go by. Blogs were originally weblogs, (some say diaries) - now they've seemed to expanded, and as you said, become more vague.