Blog or Website

[Harmster]

Hi,

Just wanting to know what you think is best for a portfolio a blog or a website.

[madpilot]

Both. Do a portfolio page, that allows potential customers/employers to see all your stuff quickly, but have a blog and talk about industry stuff - this shows you are serious about what you do.

[Harmster]

Thank you very much that's great advice much appreciated.

Regards Harmster

[eduardomachina]

i have both, in the same enviroment. www.lemoscouto.com
i think a website portfolio is good, for it shows your capacity of setting an entire enviroment to display your work. a blog (for a portfolio) is good too, more dynamic, and can be a quicker way to show your stuff. it doesn't means that a blog shouldn't look good also... but it is, indeed, quicker than setting an entire new site for your work.

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[ashul]

Blogs are a great SEO tool, even if everyone is passing on reading the article written, Google never does.
BLOG is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs .To promote blog u can use web rings, orkut, hi 5, face book.
Are you for real? if you are going to quote wikipedia, it is easier to just have a link like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

BTW - In computing (http://forums.port80.asn.au/wiki/Computing), a hyperlink (or link) is a reference (http://forums.port80.asn.au/wiki/Reference) to a document (http://forums.port80.asn.au/wiki/Document) that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically. The reference points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext (http://forums.port80.asn.au/wiki/Hypertext) is text with hyperlinks. Such text is usually viewed with a computer. A software system for viewing and creating hypertext is a hypertext system. To hyperlink (or simply to link) is to create a hyperlink. A user following hyperlinks is said to navigate or browse the hypertext.

Hope that helps :)

[Kad]

You can make a blog style page within a website but you can't do vice versa..

[kay]

You can make a blog style page within a website but you can't do vice versa..

Um... yes you can... WordPress is a pretty powerful CMS.

[tuna]

Um... yes you can... WordPress is a pretty powerful CMS.

What she said 110%, WP is no longer just a blogging platform, the CMS is getting very powerful.

[Franki]

I've yet to use Wordpress as a blogging platform ;) also phpbb/vb et al also make a great "CMS" ;)

[Alvin]

Wordpress is so much more than a Blogging platform, it can do pretty much anything you can think of. I was originally very negative about WP - until i was forced into a development project that utilised it. Since then, it is my preferred CMS, and i am a vocal advocate for it (not the only one.)

Mainly the backlash against it is designers that have not yet used it - it is a bit of a learning curve to start with - but once that 12 hours is done it is super duper cool and has almost limitless possibilities. And once you hand it off, any idiot can use it - not that clients are idiots, but they do usually employ at least one that will be updating the site.

2 Words make WP awesome: Custom Fields. If you are developing site and have no idea what Custom Fields are, your clients are missing out big time. BTW, WP is not the only CMS with custom fields.

One thing i dislike about WP - is themes, when developing a client specific site and then the client switches the theme because Neighbour Joe's Step Son recommends it, and this kid is a prodigy , he is always messing with stuff on the 'puter - then you get the call that nothing works and it is broken. Unfortunately most sites i have done with WP are micro businesses, this happens in those environments, and they usually blame the original designer.

[Petar]

i recommend both, we recently did our own site using wordpress www.intertec.com.au