Developing A New Website

Today I was struggling trying to figure out if I was going to add some pages to a new site with Blogger, Microsoft FrontPage or just stick with Nvu.

Then it dawned on me that part of the problem I have been having has to do with the difference between a website and a blog.

I have been trying to create a blog as a website.

The model I have been looking at is James Martell's sites and he uses Microsoft FrontPage to create pages get them indexed with the search engines and then people look them up.

This is a slow process.

He has information on Nikola Tesla the great inventor who invented the cell phone, this piece of history has lots of time to get found in the search engines on what ever page you put it on.

I started a poker site www.The-Best-Poker.com and wanted to write about the Poker Tournament that starts next week on September 4th, 2005, I don't have 3 months for the search engines to find this page and index it.

I need people to see it today on my home page.

Then after the 4th it's not so important, so I need it moved some place else and I need something else on my home page.

I don't know why it was not more obvious that when I have current or time sensitive things to say that a blog is the way to go and if I just want to put up something about history that will be good forever then it's not so important.

This should help the design phase of my new sites, deciding if I am going to have current information and update it regularly, or if I am just putting up information that is not time sensitive that should remain the same now or 10 years from now.

The other consideration is how the information is developed.

I am good at coming up with small pieces of information about many different subjects, usually enough to fill about half a page, seldom more than one full page.

It is really difficult almost to the point of being impossible for me to develop a site like Martell's because it really takes some time.

If I write the whole site myself I have to come up with information on one subject to fill 100's of pages.

My brain just can't do this, I don't think that way. If I can come up with 1 full page at a time I consider it a huge success.

So what I end up with is 20 half pages each about a different subject. To wait for 100 pages on the same subject would take a while.... a really long while.

That's where the blog really comes in, I can combine all those half pages and try to come up with some that are a little related and start putting them together and see where they go.