What is the need for a website or blog?
A website increases your online presence. If you are an individual, you might want to share your information with others. If you are a company you will surely need to have an online presence, because of the following reasons:
- a website gets you to many individuals
- a website make your business run 24/7 without needing your intervention.
- a website makes your business run even while you are sleeping
What is the difference between a blog and a website?
Website
A website is a place where you can keep your data organised. You need have some coding skills like HTML, CSS etc., to get your website done or you need to hire some professionals in order to design a website for you. But if you spend some time you can learn these HTML, CSS very easily within a very few days and can design yourself a site.
Example: www.gonovice.com
Blog
A blog is a place where you can publish your content easily but your data will not be organised. You don't need to have any prior knowledge or technical skills to start blogging as they are ready made for you already!
Example: blog.gonovice.com
Which one to choose, a blog or a website?
If you want to publish your data with ease or want to post updates regularly a Blog is the right place. Blogs are generally prefered for individuals. Also if you have a diversified content you may start blogging.
If you want to have a organised content you need to start with a website. Websites are generally best for business companies. You may also have a website if your content is focussed on particular areas where it is easy to organise your content. Users can easily browse through your content if you have a well organised website.
We have choosen the website option as we want our data to be organised and easily accessible by all.
We also blog to post our updates regularly.
So, if you want to create a better online presence start with a website to organise your content and start blogging to post your updates regularly.
Getting started
As already said you need to have some coding skills to design your own website. There are many online tools available to create a website within minutes but you can't get all that you need. If you hire professionals and if you want to update your content regularly, you might need to pay them on a regular basis. But if you spend some time with us, you can easily learn all that you need to create a website.
Start your journey from here