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Structure difference: Websites are just collections of pages you can navigate to via the top navigation bar, whereas blogs have collections of posts that can be indexed and syndicated (via their RSS feed). Distill blogs are a distill website with added blog posts.
Layout difference: Within a blog, Distill enables a special page on your website called a listing page. Whereas websites require you to manually set up links to pages, a listing page collects links to posts for you, displaying key metadata (like date published, author, categories, title, etc.) and a thumbnail image. When you knit and publish a new post, this page automatically updates by adding the most recent post to the top of the list.
Workflow difference: Furthermore, website pages and root pages of blogs are re-rendered when the site is rebuilt but blog articles are not. Each blog article has to be rendered on its own, with intent. Why? Given that R package upgrades have a tendency to break older code, continuously re-rendering old posts is nearly impossible to do without errors, especially over longer periods of time.
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Website or blog?
Structure difference: Websites are just collections of pages you can navigate to via the top navigation bar, whereas blogs have collections of posts that can be indexed and syndicated (via their RSS feed). Distill blogs are a distill website with added blog posts.
Layout difference: Within a blog, Distill enables a special page on your website called a listing page. Whereas websites require you to manually set up links to pages, a listing page collects links to posts for you, displaying key metadata (like date published, author, categories, title, etc.) and a thumbnail image. When you knit and publish a new post, this page automatically updates by adding the most recent post to the top of the list.
Workflow difference: Furthermore, website pages and root pages of blogs are re-rendered when the site is rebuilt but blog articles are not. Each blog article has to be rendered on its own, with intent. Why? Given that R package upgrades have a tendency to break older code, continuously re-rendering old posts is nearly impossible to do without errors, especially over longer periods of time.
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