Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Blog vs Personal Webpage

Blog and Personal webpage are usually personal purpose. The owner of the blog and webpage post the writing, which are opinions, daily life, news article and humor. Also they post pictures of their own or embed the video and music from streaming sites.

Personal webpage and blog has many similarities. The comparison I already did before (Wiki vs Blog), it could be Blog, Personal Webpage vs Wiki. However, there are some differences between Blog and Personal Webpage.

Contrast
- Blog is usually free to use. On the other hand, the personal webpage, the owner has to pay for webhosting fee (which rent database, Web Server space)
- Personal webpage is free to express yourself. You can customize whatever you want to.
Blog usually provide several templates, therefore it is limited to customize the page.
- People or friends are easy to find the blog easier than personal webpage.
If the person wants to visit personal webpage, the person should know exact URL.
- Blog is easy to customize the page. The owner of the blog can modify or create the menu or page by couple of clicks. On the other hand, it is necessary to know any web programming languages, which are HTML, Java Script, ASP, PHP or JSP, to modify page and it will be more complicated and need more time to do it.
- Blog is much easy to manage the whole sites.
- The owner of the personal webpage should know how to do the Computer Design.
- The owner of blog easy to exchange the opinion with other people. When the owner post the article on the blog, sometime the person, the stranger, leave the comment on the article and have a discussion on the subject. On the other hand, In the case of Personal webpage only the owner of the personal webpage usually visits the site.

It is depend on how the person wants to express himself/herself on the cyber space. From my experience, I prefer to have the personal webpage because I can modify the page whatever I want. I can manage my database. I can change the design freely. However, sometime I miss my old blog since it was much easier to manage the sites.

3 comments:

newmediaadls said...

very useful information. i think i like blogs better since they are free and easier to use. having a personal homepage though would be fun to have since you get to customize it yourself.

msyed85 said...

All i can say the flash on your blog is an interesting idea.Now people would be also able to upload their own flash files which will allow users to design their blogs in graphical ways.

NEW MEDIA DL said...

yea, good stuff there. I think the main difference between the two is that webpages can include anything while blogs are just a person's writings.