Why blog and not website

I’ve started writing an e-book about blogging and I stopped at this chapter - “Why blog and not website?”. There are pros and cons regarding this subject. Blogs are the last trend, that’s for sure, but are they betterman-thinking.jpg than websites, pointing their usability, interface, user-friendly?

The first thing that comes in my mind is that blogs are pretty cheap, the script is free and a .com domain is not more than 10$. About websites, it may be a little hard to make a great one. Some months ago I started a project called PcPedia.net. It’s a news website that runs on the cms called Joomla and it was very difficult to modify it the way I wanted.

Many people would tend to say that a website is more professional than a blog, but I think that they are wrong. Take a look at TechCrunch - a very successful blog and professional too.

Another great plus for the blogs is that they look more user-friendly and are not so hard to be a little personalized. You know what a typical blog is, one or two sidebars and the content in the middle. By clicking on a post’s title you are able to write a comment. Nothing hard here, but an website can sometimes be tricky.

But what do you think? It’s better to have a blog or a website?

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Alex
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Blogging
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