"Having a blog, thinking of a website" Topic

It seems that in recent years blogs have become the standard for wargamers. They are fun – I have one, too, albeit somewhat dormant. Even if I do not write much these days, I check the blog roll on mine almost every day, and I enjoy very much what other people contribute.
So far, so good.
But here's my question: are website a thing of the past? Personally, I have dear memories of the Major-General Tremorden Redding, Bob Cordery's Colonial Wargaming, AK-47 Ztum-Setum, The Great Adventure about Great War Spearhead, just to name a few of my favorite.
The limit (and the strength, in other regards) I see in blogs is their "daily diary" nature. Yes, as a reader (and a writer), it is great to receive a daily pill of wisdom, a splendid picture, a AAR for the ages. But in a blog, all these contributions will end up buried over time; also, a blog makes very hard to arrange the narrative of a campaign, unless labeling is carefully done and the sequence of battles is not too stretched over time. This is particularly true for blogs like mine, which cover many different interests and periods within the hobby, and are not updated with frequency.
All of this to come to another question: am I a fool in contemplating the creation of a website? A site where notes, thoughts, OOB, AAR, reviews may be collected and organized in a more logical order than a blog allows? When I first started DestoFante, I intended to use the blog as a way to generate materials, and have them later organized in a proper site. The blog has become little more of a collection of WIP entries, but I still wouldn't mind to have things organized properly.
Finally: if I create my website, what platform/host should I consider? I know google offers free space on Google Site, but I do not know the quality of the service (although I would be tempted to go that route only because of the hope the technology would resemble Blogger, with which I am rather comfortable now.)
Just sharing some food of thought.
DestoFante

If you're using WordPress to blog, take a look at "New Page" rather than "New Post". If you look at mine, you'll see that the "Home" tab contains the usual blog stream, while the "Rat Marines" tab is a usual kind of page.

My blog is here: noserf.com

If I remember correctly, you can actually add a hierarchy in the tabs, so that "Rat Marines" in the future might lead to "Chapter Transport" for a Space Marine Fleet, and "Combat Troops" for the current page.

As someone who's had a website for a long time and recently started a blog, I can tell you Websites are a lot more work than blogs. A lot more. And, yes, I think because of their complexity and the time they take they are becoming more and more a thing of the past.

Iannick
clashofempires.ca
Par la bouche de mes canons: link

If you're looking to upgrade your own site from a blog-with-extras into a "real" website, start with this Wiki Page: link

Interestingly, the Wiki claims that WordPress (the tool I use) is now a real CMS. Good to know.

DestoPante,

I understand where you are coming from. My blog is really a collection of battle reports using different rules, some reviews etc. Not really a timeline of my gaming life.In my first post I think I actually said it would have been better as a wiki than a blog. I use blogger, and have created pages that link to the various blog posts. That may be a better way to go. I have not done it, but I believe there are easy ways to have the pages more prominent on the home page, rather than just links on the banner.