Blog vs. Website
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008A few years ago, when my younger daughter was very much into web design, she offered to set up a website for me. We discussed it sporadically, but my list of requirements (it had to be in English and in French, to start with) grew so long that it would have taken years to complete, so we ended up doing… nothing.
I started this blog in the meantime, and to tell the truth, I don’t think that I needed a website at all. I am not overly interested in the institutional side of translation websites, there is something too impersonal and static for me there.
Yet when I started this blog I was well aware of the shortcomings in terms of official information, which is why I was glad to discover this Problogger’s post a couple of weeks ago, because it seems to match exactly what I had in mind. Darren Rowse lists 20 different types of pages to use in a blog, and I’m thankful to him for publishing it, even though not all types will find their way here. The Web is like one big library and if you browse long enough, you end up finding exactly what you were looking for.
So I’ve started experimenting with a page about my areas of specialization, and I will probably continue to customize the blog along those lines.
If you’ve been through this kind of inner debate, what kind of pages would you consider essential to a translator’s blog? Any ideas?
