The web is filled with many great resources such as websites, blogs, wikis, profile pages, and many other forms of user published content. Essentially, these are all categorized as websites, but what separates them are their purpose, and their function. A traditional website acts as a landing point from which visitors can access other information relating to the site via the site's map, or link framework. Usually, on a site you have a set of links that help visitors navigate. A home, contact, about, multimedia, news, and events or product pages are fairly standard on websites.
A blog, or web-log, is a page usually consisting of three elements: a landing page which lists the latest updates or blog entries, an archive page in which visitors can access older postings, and an about or profile page listing information about the blogger and the purpose of his blog. A blog gives anyone with an interest and the will to write, the means to publish their thoughts for the world to see. Blogs services like Blogger have given people the ability to not only share their idea, but also bring people with the same interests and passions together and help create online communities. Online tools like blogs allow people to collaborate by sharing editing permissions, or by commenting on a published entry, creating a bi-directional flow of information between editors and readers.
