A friend of mine asked me to help him build the new website of its company.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of time to devote to this. After thinking a few days about what would be the easiest and quickest way to help him, I decided to use a blog template with some extra features.
Indeed, it offers the comfort of an existing plateform with a built-in administration tool and it could be structured and designed as needed.
I still don’t know if I am going to use Blogger ,WordPress or any other.
I really wish I could try Movable Type out but it is not free and I guess my friend is not willing to pay…
Anyway, I read that many people now have the same reaction than I had: here, here or here (FR) are examples of website built on a blog structure.
Is it the death of the usual website that we have been knowing ?
Written in listenning: goldfrapp
February 7, 2006 at 9:44 am
It’s a good Idea ! Knowing that the “blog style” web page is very trendy today…
February 7, 2006 at 1:13 pm
I agree
With a blog, you can have a working site (not necesarily a goodlooking yet) up in minutes and then it comes standard with a CMS backend for the end user to be able to update his/her own site. It also ocomes standard with rss syndication… and of course dont forget the comments thats standard too
I think trading websites in for blogs just makes everybody a winnner
February 8, 2006 at 1:12 pm
I have used WordPress for several client’s sites. It is easy to set up and users – on the whole – find it easy to use.
An added bonus is that search engines seem to love blogs. All those article and links in and out really get them going.
February 9, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Need now to find a web host… Any advices?
February 9, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Dreamhost. The managed web hosting is very cheap and they are very reliable. You can host as many sites as you like. It has PHP, MySQL, Ruby (with many gems inc. Rails) and many other things.
February 13, 2006 at 9:07 pm
I just put up a blog for a young, emerging actor (who can currently be seen on ABC’s “Invasion” sci-fi drama) and after discussing it a bit with him, we found that using the bloging power is better than a “traditional” web site.
Check it out if you are interested:
http://nbaesel.blogsome.com/