A website and a blog can be the same. It’s actually one of those logic problems. A blog is a website but a website is not always a blog. Websites are any type of collection of web pages that are hosted on the same domain. A blog is a specific type of content system that allows you to publish your content in a format that is more easily read, it has RSS features and other publishing features that have search engine optimization quality to it. I prefer, personally, to encourage people to start with a blog because it’s easier to maintain, you don’t have to worry about learning a lot of fancy graphics or anything like that because blogs are pretty effective at using existing graphics and what are called themes.