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Schicky
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PostPosted: Fri May 07, 2004 11:10 am    Post subject: blog v. website Reply with quote

What is the difference between a blog and a website? What are the advantages/disadvantages of one over the other? Does it make sense to have both? I'm so new to all this. Please excuse my ignorance!
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john
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PostPosted: Fri May 07, 2004 10:53 pm    Post subject: Re: blog v. website Reply with quote

A blog is simply a type of website. The term weblog combines the terms web and log, so the term log implies some kind of record or chronology of events, whereas traditional websites do not necessarily log or chronicle events. There is no standard answer to this question, I would be very suprised if no one replies here why I am way off base on this answer. Wink

Does it make sense to have both? Yes, in certain circumstances. Maybe you need to run certain programs like this forum software, which would not run on the content management system of your weblog. Or perhaps you want to keep the corporate message separate from a blog you use to speak more candidly with your customers...
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have two sites that are ready to expire, one is a typepad blog and the other is a static, frontpage built site at Catalog.com. Could I consolidate both of these under one account with Blogharbor? What I had in mind is registering a new custom name with you for the blog (www.example.org) but the address I already own is a (dot)us name which you do not handle. If I reregister this name (www.example.us) with some one like GoDaddy could they point it to my blogharbor HTML static pages?
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john
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can have your blog respond to up to 3 addresses, so you can point up to 3 domains to your blog. One of addresses will be the primary address and will always appear in the web browser, the other 2 hostnames are alternate addresses to which your blog will answer, but the primary address will still be the one shown in the web browser. If you are able to add a CNAME record at GoDaddy then you should be able to point the domain registered there to your BlogHarbor weblog.

One thing we do not support is pointing one domain at one section of your blog and another domain at a different section of your blog: domains point to the whole blog.
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