LESSON NR.3:
How to make your “HOME PAGE” a static
page on blogger
Today we’ll see how to make our first page of our blog (the home page) to be a static page or every other post of the blog.
We’ll see
what “Home page” means and how to be
set on blogger.
What is “Home page”?
“Home
page” is the first page of the blog, the one in which the last posts of the
blog appears.
All
platforms of blogging has a beginning page like that, noting that some of them
like Wordpress, has the option to set like “Home page” a static page from the
blog.
It might be on Blogger
Blogspot?
Yes, it
might be. Blogger has introduce soon the option of redirection of some pages
from the blog to others, so, in using of this option we can set like “Home page”
a static page on blogger.
How do we set Home page a
static page?
Step 1. Creating static pages which will become home
page
First of all, creat a
static page as you like it. Put in it what you want guests to see the first
time they enter on the blog.
Give it a title like “Home” or “Home page” that the url of the
page to be short and then you can publish the page. Modify again the static
page and give it a title that you like to appear in the first page and on
google search.
Don’t forget to do too a description for the tag “description”,
because the description that you’ve writed for the beginning page doesn’t apply
anymore.
If you wish to have coments on the first page, you can activate
them from the right side of the text
editor
from “The settings of the page - -> Options”.
Publish again the static page
and then copy the url address of the page in a Notepad file.
The address will look like this:
http://yourblogaddress.blogspot.com/p/home.html.
Step 2. Optional: link the last articles in the menu
Step 2. Optional: link the last articles in the menu
If
you choose to show your last articles of the blog in the static pages menu, put
on the menu this link:
http://yourblogaddress.blogspot.com/search
named it “Blog”. Change with your blog url the red written side.
Step 3. The redirection to the new Home page
Step 3. The redirection to the new Home page
Now we’ll make the
permanent redirection to the new created static page.
Enter on “Settings - -> Favourite searches - -> errors and
redirections- ->Personalised redirections” and click the link “Edit”.
A window will open in which we’ll make the settings like that:
In the room: “From:” please introduce only this sign: /.
This sign is the same thing like the beginning page from the blog.
In the room: “To:” please introduce the last part from the new
created static page url, I mean the red writted side:
http://yourblog.blogspot.com/p/home.html.
Look to the next picture.
Check the
room behind the “Permanent”, word that the redirection to be permanent, click
on the “Save” bottom and then click on the “Save the modifications”.
Now is the
time you have to check your blog to see if the changes has been made. If the
redirection can not produce, follow again the 3rd stept with more
attention.
The modification of the static menu pages
Pay attention to the static menu pages and you’ll
see that they are linked so the last beginning page from the blog as the new
created static page in the menu and clicked all the bottoms, both goes in the
same place.
To solve this problem, you
should enter at “Aspect” to find the gadget object “Pages” and to click on”Edit”.
Here you’ll see that so the old
page as the new static one are clicked.
Unclick
one of them and save the gadget object. Now the problem is solved and you will
have just one only bottom that will bring you to “Home page”.
If you
wish to get to the first form of the blog, you only have to do is to delete the
made redirection and everything will get to normal.
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