Using a blog CMS for a non-blog website is a brilliant move if we can get past the confusion clients feel from the technical aspects. It’s our job to explain this so they understand it, but it often requires better communications skills than most of us possess.

Well, no. A site is a site is a site. The definition of website, to us, is “content that is static” and a blog is, to us, “content that changes.”

Everything else is the same. The look may be a little different, the layout might be different, but essentially, a blog and a website are the same thing, from a coder’s perspective.

I LOVE how many WordPress themes now have the static potential on the home pages and the blog potential on other pages combined into one. Best of both worlds.

@TriExpert – Thanks for the links to the geekery. I would like to gently remind you that you need to use a real name in the comment name field. That is my comment policy, which is stated above the comment box in each post.

@Easton – Thank you. A blog is just a certain kind of publishing platform and content management system. You can do whatever you want with it to meet the needs of your customers. They don’t need to know it’s blog software under the hood — it doesn’t matter to them. But it matters to business owners who have to consider the costs and time spent updating and creating content. A content management system like WordPress makes that very easy and efficient.