Need guidance regards to adding blog to site

also how it effects seo

[crimsonblack]

Hi...

lets say I have a site www.whatever.com

and i decide i want a blog added to this site..

but i want it to carry the same look/feel/template of the main site.. is it better to have it intergrated into the site like

wwww.whatever.com/blog.html

and have it intergrated into the html page or..

is it better to have it

www.whatever.com/blog

and have it as its own section.. not intergrated but still attached to the domain

whats easiest and can you customize the blogs appearance so it carries the same look as the main html site?

[mack]

In terms of making it look and feel like part of your site the actual url is not as importaint as retaining your sites look. Many blog scripts allow you to easliy modify the template so as to ensure it retains your sites look.

As for the url you dont even need to call it blog. Just think of a good folder name for the information you will be offereing and call it that.

Mack.

[crimsonblack]

mack... my host gives me this.. what do you recommend

Blogs
b2evolution
Nucleus
pMachine Free
WordPress

Content Management
Drupal
Geeklog
Mambo Open Source
PHP-Nuke
phpWCMS
phpWebSite
Post-Nuke
Siteframe
Xoops

i want to do a regular site but i want it to intergrate the blog so that if you go to the main page.. you see there is snippets of any new updates to the blog on the main page..

So whilst i think it would be good to have like a site that is

www.whatever.com/blog

i would want it so that everytime i update the blog it you would see the title and a snippet of the blog on the front page of the main html website

any ideas how to do this?

[edited by: tedster at 5:46 pm (utc) on Jan. 2, 2005]
[edit reason] remove domain names [/edit]

[mrnoisy]

I have used about half of the apps in your list and I would give my vote to Wordpress as the most easy to use and modify.

You could also install it as a subdomain:
www.blog.whatever.com