Message/Bulletin Boards and Blogs are similar. Both provide an easily updatable website, allowing the Board or Blog owner to post content/messages for other users to view.

The primary difference is that Blogs usually, only allow the Blog owner(or a very select few) to post messages and content. Other visitors can view, but not post messages and replies. If visitors are allowed to post messages to a Blog, it is almost always in the context of an existing message topic or article that the Blog owner started. In other words visitors to a Blog usually do not start new message topics/articles/threads, but rather only respond to what the Blog owner has posted.

A Message board, on the other hand, allows not only the board owner, but visitors to post new messages and start new message topics as well as replies. A general guideline to decide whether to use a Blog or a Message board, is to consider who will be posting messages/content to your board. If only you, or a select few, will be posting, then use a Blog. If you want to allow users to start/post new message topics/articles then use a message board.

We provide both Message Boards(www.message-boards.net) and Blogs. Our Blogs have features not normally found unless you were using a fully featured message board. Those capabilities include, password protection, guest logs, archiving, private messages, listserv capability, various display formats(threaded, semi-threaded, non-threaded) etc.. Our Blogs are designed to have the same features as the message boards we provide.

You can convert from one format (Blog/Message Board) to another, with the push of a button via your management page. Setting a Blog up with us, gives you additional capabilities you would normally not get with a normal Blog provider.