[Gaystoryman]

The one thing a static or even a dynamic site has over a blog, is the update cycle. I mean with HTML, once the page is up, IT IS UP. (unlike some furry folks I know, who get droopy right away but no names... ) Until you opt to make changes to the content, it is there, for all to see, and admire, and use.

With blogging, there is a constant cycle of 'updates' to either the core files, which with Wordpress is about one major update every four months, a bug update that follows that, then usually a security update right after that. So 2 added core updates, for each main core update.

Confused yet?
Then there is the theme updates, which until the release of 2.6.2 was pretty well non existent. Now it is also becoming rather frequent, but not as much as the Plug In debate cycle. Why some plugins will update every day of the week for a week, and that is truly a nightmare.

The reason is, that plugins use the core files, use your database a lot, and so any security holes can impact the whole blog. Then too, there is the compatibility issue with the core files, or with other plugins, and that is a hit and miss situation too.

It isn't like they tell you it won't work with this plugin or that one, you just have to keep close tabs on how your blog performs, in order to tell. Unless you get the one that suddenly when activated shows up a whole mess of error notices and no blog.

So if you are looking for an easy ride, by blogging... GUESS AGAIN JACK. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.

For the record, most plugin updates are indeed security related, though most claim it is bug fixes. Funny, the plugin works great, but suddenly needs three or four upgrades in a row, but yeah, it is only a bug fix... NOT!

Moral of the story, Choose Your Plug Ins with great care.

[Tigger]

The one thing a static or even a dynamic site has over a blog, is the update cycle. I mean with HTML, once the page is up, IT IS UP

I don't think thats the same for every webmaster/site, true you will have some pages that don't get touched for a while but I have all my sites within an XL sheet and every site gets updated at least once a month and sites that get a lot of traffic once a week, but thats only adding content into the site not changing every page which I suppose with a blog thats the case

So if you are looking for an easy ride, by blogging... GUESS AGAIN JACK. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.

tell me about it - beeding update, this,that and just about every other frigging thing to do with these blogs - and YES I hate updating stuff, it works so why bother.

Its like my PC its running fine on windows 3.1 so why "£%^"£$^"£$^!"$£ &%^$*^>>>>>>> upgrade

[Gaystoryman]

HTML pages, when I say it is UP, never needs updating, I am referring to the code Tigs. How often does anyone alter the code of the page, because of a new vulnerability? Blogs are constantly updating the 'backend' that the surfer never sees... the damn code. You may change the words, even the pics on an HTML page, but that is because you are tweaking it, not because how the html is written..

[Tigger]

true but when you talk about update cycle my only interest in that is to get SE interest and hopefully increased crawling, and whilst the backend of a blog may be updating often so long as a webmaster keeps tweaking is html site surly the bottom line is the same

[Gaystoryman]

Originally Posted by Tigger

true but when you talk about update cycle my only interest in that is to get SE interest and hopefully increased crawling, and whilst the backend of a blog may be updating often so long as a webmaster keeps tweaking is html site surly the bottom line is the same

You would think so, however if you have to spend a ton of time, updating plugins, core files, it leaves less time to tweak for SEO and the Customer. It is a vicious cycle, because if you don't update, you could wind up with a blank site, or worse... one covered in Thongs pics

[Tigger]

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