Being a web designer and completely immersed in the technical world designing and coding, I sometimes forget that the average person isn't up to speed on all the jargon in the web world that seems common place to me. Blogs or Blog Posts? When I hear people on Facebook referring to the "blogs" they have written, I cringe and want to tell them that a blog is actually the entire site - a collection of articles - and that the "blogs" they are referring to are actually blog posts. You have one blog with multiple blog posts/posts/articles (whatever you like to call them). This is very separate to those people who actually do have multiple blogs (separate sites on separate domain names). While you can call me pedantic, I think it helps your credibility when you can actually use the correct terminology - you can then be taken more seriously about your area of expertise. Is a Blog a Website, is a Website a Blog? The next misunderstanding is between the terms Blog and Website. Recently my … [Read more...]