"website as a possible blog alternative" Topic

I am running a web page as a potential alternative to my blog, I will just run them side by side for now to see which one works out best.

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Horses for courses. A "standard" web site provides different features to a blog and vicky verky. You have to decide which works best for you. I would suggest that if you want a site that can be regularly updated then a blog is better. "Standard" web sites tend to be fairly static. A 7 page limit is a bit small IMHO. Some blogs provide static pages as well and you can have mre than 7 such pages and still free. I see no benefit paying for something I can get elsewhere for free.

For what it's worth, Normsmith, I prefer your website to your blog.

But in all fairness, I generally don't care much for blogs. I prefer the layout and taxonomy of a website, purely – I would guess – from familiarity.

I look at gamers blogs on a regular basis but have never 'followed' one.

I guess I'm fundamentally a more focussed, website kind of guy rather than a 'stream of consciousness' kind of fella.

I guess I also don't much like the contraction ‘blog' !

John T
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Major B (I think you have a background in computer systems if I recall correctly). The difference seem subtle at first but more significant as I look into it. I run my blog as a sort of archive of articles rather than as a socio-docu type thing and so it is set up in that way and not really intended for small grabs of info or snippets (although I know doung that is a strength of a blog) .

The web site (my paid for status gets me 30 pages) seems better at the less heavy stuff and keeping track of projects etc. I can use it in conjunction with my Dropbox etc to still make some of the larger contributions viable.

This particular site works perfectly with a tablet, so that is another bonus, though I do use a third party App to manage my Blogspot perfectly.

>>>I guess I'm fundamentally a more focussed, website kind of guy rather than a 'stream of consciousness' kind of fella.<<<

Thanks John, that rather hits the nail on the head. I have been able to run the blog OK as an easily searchable archive of articles (which is not really what it is designed to do), but from a project management perspective it feels like it is getting a bit messy. I quite like the potential for structure and weedout that a site brings, so that relevance is perhaps a little more key.

Also, I know this sounds a bit ridiculous, but the blog feels rather like a hungry beast to feed, while a web page feels a little more in tune with a more ordinary output that I would like to get to.

With a blog I tend to feel a responsibility to posting for followers, while with a website in one sense it almost doesn't matter whether you are visited or not as it is done for oneself as much as anyone else.

For what it's worth, I really like the website vice the blog.

Yeah the website is much better, I am not really much a blog guy.

Websites are usually easier to read, yours is fine.

Thanks for all the replies. I am surprised but happy at the pro view towards wesite v blog. it actually runs counter to the the views that I thought might be expressed, especially here (though i am cross posted to both BLOGS and the WEBSITE folders). Mine is obviously a work in progress, but I think it will evolve into a structure that works to the good.

It's also a lot of fun to be working with websites again, the management of this particular app is quite slick.

I have been looking atthe time relationship between my actual gaming and the time required by the blog (and the internet in general) and have been left with a sense that I need to re-balance the use of limited 'quality time in favour of more gaming related matters, even if that is only rule reading etc.

Sign up with Squarespace and you can have both.

I pay $20 USD a month or so, and get unlimited pages and a full blog function. I'm just in the process of transferring everything from my old Yahoo site to my new Squarespace one, but there's still plenty to see:
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I wish I had the necessary skills to set up and run my own website. I've got a blog but I find the blog a difficult vehicle to manipulate – can't say I understand how to make it work properly.

Doug

Doug, the simdif app has a 7 page version for free. It is a good way to start playing with the software just to see if it suits. It is probably the most intuitive web creator I have used.

normsmith – thanks; I'll check that out…

Doug