The biggest difference between having a website or having a blog is how you interact with your visitors. With a website, it's a one way street. You are the speaker and your visitors are the audience. This is the exact opposite of a blog, in which you might start a discussion, but your visitors are going to finish it.
Another thing that you might want to look at is how much work you want to put in. With a website, you will have to find a company to host your website, design your pages, and even buy a domain name (if you want to be taken seriously.) This can increase your costs greatly. While, with a blog, you can just go over to Blogger or Wordpress and have a blog in minutes. Maybe this is why more than 28 million blogs have been started in just the past five years. Now, there are some free websites creators, like GooglePages, but it can be a lot harder to get started. (Also, since Googlepages was just recently created, it still has a lot of bugs that need to be fixed.)
How often will you update your site? If you are planning to only update every month or so, then definitely go with a website! Once you are done with all the work of creating a website, you can just sit back and relax! It is not the same for bloggers. Most blogs are updated at the very least once a week, or else their visitors will go somewhere else. While a website usually gets new visitors often, blogs rely on recurring visitors who subscribe to their feeds.
These seem to be the main pros and cons of websites and blogs, but hey, if you think we are absolutely wrong, then click the Comment link and tell us off! We'll be happy to hear from you. Merry Christmas!!
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