What is the difference b/t a web site and a blog?

Answer 1

Simply put, a blog is an online journal, news ticker, or updates page.

A website, on the other hand, has all the functionality of a blog, plus more interactivity (such as Macromedia Flash, Shockwave, music, etc.)

Note that Blog is a form of website. However, to the general audience, they don't think that blogs and websites are the same.

Answer 2

A blog can be thought of as a notebook. A website is more like a library or a bookstore, it can have lots and lots of information.

Both are served from the web, and technically they can both be called "my website." I call my website a blog sometimes, but it is more like a website than a blog because it has lots of different stuff on it, not just a stream of diary-like entries. (like a notebook/blog)

Because the language overlaps the distinction is sometimes not obvious. Is the distinction real? A blog is usually just a program structure. While we call Word a word processor, and Excel a spreadsheet, they are both "computer applications." A Blog is a specific type of computer application. It is more limited in scope, like Paint compared to Adobe Creative Suite. One is a stick, the other is a hammer. In both cases, you "do" the same thing: communicate information.

Answer 3

Blog is short for weBlog. All Blogs are websites but not all websites are blogs.

A Blog is a website that is updated regularly with new information. Usually catagorized information that is displayed chronologically. Blog themes can vary from internet diary to news.

Answer 4

A blog is a usually personal log/ weblog, something like personal diary published as webpages, but available to public.

A website is a generic name for any set of web pages available.

Answer 5

Website- someone's place on the internet
Blog- part of a website. used for news, and peoples opinions/experiences.

Answer 6

all blogs are contained on a web site, but not all websites contain blogs.

Answer 7

log
An Internet term that evolved from weB LOG. A blog or 'blog or weblog is a kind of public diary -- one person's (the blogger's) individual commentary, typically political, published sequentially in growing web-pages. According to this Wikipedia entry (retrieved 2005.11.7), Jorn Barger is the editor of Robot Wisdom, an influential early weblog, and he was the one who ``coined the term weblog to describe the process of `logging the web' as he surfed.''

Blogs are entry-wise inverse-chronological, which is as irritating as the beginning of this sentence. Catching up on previous entries (or, for that matter, reading a blog for the first time) is often confusing unless you scroll up to the top of each successive entry and then scroll down to read it. Obviously, they should be inverse-chronological by individual line. Wait here, I've got to get an aspirin.

In many respects, including the general politically rightward and libertarian tilts, it is a written form of talk radio. For important examples, see

* InstaPundit.Com
* BLOGGER (start your own at the related site blog*spot)
* AndrewSullivan.Com

There were half a million blogs in July 2002. To get a grip, try blogdex.

You could think of blogs as one-person chat rooms. Really quite crass, and I am glad that I can guarantee to you our faithful readers that we of the SBF would never do anything remotely similar. (There are also consortium blogs like Daily Kos.)

Regarding that scrolling business -- I'm told some people ``scroll down'' to the top of an entry, and then ``scroll up'' as they read down through it -- the idea being that the text is moved upwards as they read down through the lines in a fixed window. A similar confusion makes a tedious hassle out of defining the signs on angles of a general rotation. The solution is simple: pick one standard convention and stick to it. My standard is this: the intransitive verb scrolling is referred to the eyes: if you ``scroll downward,'' your eyes are looking for something further down on the page. Transitive scrolling is referred to the image motion: ``scrolling the text downward'' means scrolling upward so that the text moves downward through the window. Everyone should use my (SBF-standard) convention.

http://www.plexoft.com/SBF/B04.html

Website
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NOUN:

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.


Usage Note:
The transition from World Wide Web site to Web site to website seems to have progressed as rapidly as the technology itself. The development of website as a single uncapitalized word mirrors the development of other technological expressions which have tended to evolve into unhyphenated forms as they become more familiar. Thus email has recently been gaining ground over the forms E-mail and e-mail, especially in texts that are more technologically oriented. Similarly, there has been an increasing preference for closed forms like homepage, online, and printout.

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/website

Answer 8

A blog has less features. It's basically just text in like a diary format.

Answer 9

blog is a section of writing and a website is what the blog goes on.

Answer 10

a blog is basically a personal website. A website is everything you see on the internet.