A site can be anything you want it to be for a variety of applications. What will use yours for? Here are some of the many uses of a site that I know of.
A website might be your personal inspiration!
Are you training for a marathon or trying to lose weight? Do you often wander from your goals and need a helping hand steering yourself back on track? Then blogging in a community could be only what you want. Start a simple blog, using a free community website, and start describing your goals and ongoing training and exercise regime. Thinking of not there a session or just feeling low after a bad session? Then write a new post and share it with others and hope to get some positive comments back. Read through other sites in the community and share your thoughts with them.
A website can be a home business.
If you want to earn a little extra money from home, then you can website for an income. Create a weblog and write round something that you know and start working on building traffic to the site. Then add Pay Per Click adverts, banner advertising, affiliate links and paid posting. You can quickly and easily turn a easy blog into a decent income.
A site might inform your customers.
If you want to release news and the latest information to your customers then a website could be an exceptional way of doing this whilst building a community feel. Encourage your customers to visit your website and learn the latest round your company, possibly providing free ideas and ideas to help them in their own business. Get them commenting on your posts and they will visit your site more often and be more loyal customers.
A weblog could be a full site!
Blogging tools such as WordPress.org do not only need to be used for websites - they can also be used as a content management system for a complete website! After you install your blog and set it up you might then create the pages you would in a normal web site along with features for instance contact forms, whilst being able to easy to update through the CMS system.
A blog could keep your business on track.
Add security to your website so that merely certain people might see relevant pages and you can use a blog to keep projects on track. Add a category for each new ongoing project and add posts for major changes, using the comments to discuss the changes and amendments and record them as complete. The weblog then becomes an straightforward project management tool.
A blog might be an online newsletter.
If you want to run an online newsletter then a website might be the tool to use. Each new issue becomes a post, with the advantage that your readers might also participate by leaving comments whilst making sure that they might get the latest posts by following your RSS feed.
A site could be anything that you want it to be. Just get blogging!