Newbee: whats the difference between a website and a blog?
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I am subscribing to WordPress and have just created a blog. However I do not fully understand and would also like to create a website to go alongside my blog so how do I start this? Please excuse my lack of knowledge in this as this is my first attempt. Thanks.
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A blog is a website. The difference between blog and website is simply structure and semantics.
A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.
What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one-way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, and as others do not backlink to pages, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.
Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
See also:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
Build Your Website in Five Steps
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Every theme has a detailed theme description page and this one is at https://wordpress.com/theme/publish and that’s where set up instructions for it and the live demo site link is found.
Please see these resources:
Get started https://en.support.wordpress.com/start/
Quick Start https://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/
Tutorials https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/
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