Comments on: So What’s It Gonna Be: A Blog or Traditional HTML Website? http://www.intac.net/2010-02-03so-whats-it-gonna-be-a-blog-or-traditional-html-website/ Wed, 12 May 2010 05:36:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt http://www.intac.net/2010-02-03so-whats-it-gonna-be-a-blog-or-traditional-html-website/comment-page-1/#comment-1742 Matt Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:04:08 +0000 http://www.intac.net/?p=697#comment-1742 Blog platforms that allows customization are key. The problem from static HTML has always been that in order to update something, you had to update it file by file (depending on what you wanted to update). PHP came along but without some sort of blogging backend to do the work, you're stuck learning how to do it yourself.<br><br>Blogging platforms like Wordpress make it completely easy (well, mostly) for newcomers to set up a website. Further diving into the template codes and you've got a site that can be just about anything you want it to be - from a forum to a full business site. (Plenty of companies use Wordpress to power their corporate sites, by the way.)<br><br>And as for the people who think of blogging as a "fad", the number of blogs have risen substantially over the past few years, and the numbers only grow with each passing day. Blog platforms that allows customization are key. The problem from static HTML has always been that in order to update something, you had to update it file by file (depending on what you wanted to update). PHP came along but without some sort of blogging backend to do the work, you're stuck learning how to do it yourself.

Blogging platforms like Wordpress make it completely easy (well, mostly) for newcomers to set up a website. Further diving into the template codes and you've got a site that can be just about anything you want it to be – from a forum to a full business site. (Plenty of companies use Wordpress to power their corporate sites, by the way.)

And as for the people who think of blogging as a “fad”, the number of blogs have risen substantially over the past few years, and the numbers only grow with each passing day.

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