The Real Blogger Status

Some blog owners want to publish posts, and display a static main page - and want to view blog content, in one or more tabbed pages. It's not difficult to create the tabbed pages. The difficulty would come, long ago, when setting up the main page. We had several workarounds for making a static main page - none of them equally easy to use, effective, and elegant . Then, Blogger created Custom Redirects - and gave us static main pages, that are easy to use, effective, and elegant.

Some blog owners want to publish posts, and have a dynamic main page - but want to restrict specific posts to a tabbed page. Having created a tabbed page with specific posts, the next question would be But how do I keep those posts off my main page? And long ago, there was no good answer for this question. Then, Blogger gave us the Custom Redirects feature.

One of the most fascinating features of Blogger blogs is the various options to organise our content. Long ago, I wrote a simple article, Adding A Blogger Blog To A Website . That's become one of the most consistently popular posts, in this blog. Most blog owners have multiple interests, and like to organise their different interests , by subject - and have a different blog, for each subject. Some people like to have a blog, and a website - and host both the blog and website in one Blogger blog, under one URL. For a small blog / website combination, that's an easy way to start out - and a good alternative, to having multiple blogs / websites.

To better explain the process of setting up a blog with a static home page, I have produced a new video demonstration (somewhat improved, from the attempt earlier today). This is experimental, so be kind. This is intentionally a silent video, because the recording process, used for displaying the screen, is very heavy on computer resources. Audio doesn't improve the experience. See the How To page, in the demo blog, first: My Static Home Page Demonstration Blog And now, the video: Nitecruzr Video: Setting Up A Blog With A Static Home Page >> Top

For many years, Blogger blog owners have been asking for the ability to have a static Home page, on their blog. We came up with a basic solution for that , a couple years ago. Last year, I packaged the procedure . Set "Show" to "0 posts". Add a static HTML / Text gadget. Tweak the template for the new gadget, to display only on Home page. This was an obvious solution (to some of us) - but it's painfully complex, and it involves editing the template HTML. It's an interesting techie solution - and that's about it. Today, I realised that Blogger recently gave us this option, in a far simpler solution , last month - but not so many people noticed it.