All B2B And B2C Blog Sites
B2b And B2c Weblogs Are B2b And B2c WebsitesArticle By: James A. Warholic, President Professional Web Services, Inc.
The premise that Weblogs will reach a peak and then die down I believe is a false premise.
Why B2b And B2c Blogs Will Be Around For a Long Time
First off, it is important to understand the convergence, differences and similarities between what static & dynamic websites are, plus, how content management websites and blogs are converging on one another.
Pre WYSIWYG And Css
Prior to wysiwyg, "what you see is what you get" editors, pages were hand coded by programmers. It required a very laborious and time consuming effort to design and build a site. Starting with a layout design, adding body text and graphics, adjusting the fonts to certain sizes, tweaking the colors, and playing with the spacing to line everything up. Then came css, cascading style sheets, into the mix, which made it easy to customize a style sheet for one page and then use that same style sheet throughout the whole site with just adding new content to the pages.
Understanding Dynamic Pages
Dynamic pages are generated on the fly from a database. For example when someone goes to Best Buy, Circuit City, or Outpost.Com and does a search for a memory board or television the query calls up all of the matching criteria and places it into a dynamically generated page with the matching information which is now viewed in one page or multiple pages.
B2b and B2c Blogging Software
Blogging software is a compilation of both css and dynamic websites with another interesting addition. When a page is generated, information is called from Headers, Side Bars, Footers, and various other items such as: previous posts, archives, & date and time stamps. Outside information can be inserted into the pages in the form of comments which is considered a form of content management. Blogs can be set up to be exclusively a form of content management by giving a group of individuals access to the site to freely add, subtract, or modify the content for the group or outside world to see.
Introducing wikis
A variation on this is the new term call the wiki websites. In these type of websites the information is open to change by all. An example of this can be found at Wikipedia.Org, an online encyclopedia in which anyone can write or edit an article. Typically these are policed by the group at large with a style of writing that is constantly improving articles by editing. In fact the group encourages people, anyone, to find something that needs improved and edit it.
Enter the All B2b and B2c Blog Website
B2b and B2c content management at your finger tips. New content can be added by a novice or experienced person. Full CSS support. Preconfigured templates. Fully customizable. Weblog site can be menu driven. Automatic picture and file uploading. Wysiwyg editors for composing articles, with font size & style, color, block quoting, bullet and paragraph controls. Spell checkers. Preview modes to verify drafts before they are published. Html mode for more experienced users. Controls for outputting rss xml feeds.
All of this encapsulated in an easy-to-use B2b and B2c software package, that is configured to provide html compliant pages, and can be easily ported over to enterprise systems.
BOTTOM LINE BRIEFING - B2B AND B2C BLOGS ARE HERE TO STAY.
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