Working out the difference between a website and a blog can get very confusing. Adding to the confusion is that a ‘blog‘ is actually a type of ‘website‘ and can also form part of a website. Basically it’s down to how the content is presented. But before you go arghhhhhh, let me explain …
Have a look at the two images below. Notice how each website has a very different look …
Brass Band Website Design 
Website Style Design
Example 1, is a website style design. This is my magazine publishing website www.janekellydesigns.com, which has pages for Home, About, Work with Me and Magazine Academy. My website pages would only be updated every now and then, so would be considered as static or fixed pages.
The example below shows my ‘Work with Me‘ page. The information would stay the same unless I added a new service or wanted to change an image.
Blog Style Design
Example 2, shows a blog-style design. The content on this blog style website will change regularly with fresh content (known as dynamic content, with the most recent post showing first.
A blog layout has blocks with images and a title, which if clicked on will take the visitor to a post (see below example).
The power of blogs is to use categories, which enable posts to be structured like our example blog site is using Fiction, Tips, Promotion, etc which you can see across the menu bar.
Blogs are normally updated regularly and used by businesses to promote new services and products, provides techniques and tips and allows reader engagement. It also creates fresh content for your site, which the search engines love.
Many blogs are used by individuals as a journal and diary and to write about themselves, their hobbies and their passions … and I am sure you have heard of monetising a blog.
Website and Blog
Did you notice the menu item on my website called Blog and Articles? Well, you know the saying ‘best of both worlds’ … well, this is that moment, as not only can you have a static website for your main business pages, butalso a blog for your latest news and updates.
If I was to produce a hierachy of my website this is what it would look like (Be good to have an org chart for my website)
A few examples below show how you can incorporate a blog that shows your latest posts on your home page or for your readers to click on.
(www.janekellydesigns.com) is an example of a static and blog style website. I have my static (fixed pages) home, about, contact, work with me but under articles, I have a layout using my categories (list here) with articles that I wanted to highlight along with my latest posts in categories.
do a screen print and mark it or do a chart – organisational chart showing.
One of my other websites is a
Magazine style blog layout which again is a mixture of static pages and blog posts.Image as example – explain the layout. I control what goes where with cateogories.PSM mag
Use hierarchy chart
You can of course get many other types of websites such as: Shop etc – see other posts
