Blogspot: How To Make Your Blogger Blog Look Like A Website By Adding Pages
By NoRR4Me
Spruce up your Blogspot blog
If you want to spruce up your Blogspot blog and make it stand out from other Blogspot blogs try adding pages. Blogger has added a feature that allows you to add stand alone pages to your Blogspot blog. This creates page navigation across the top of your Blogspot blog or down the side of your blog. I recently published an article (Hub) showing how I used Blogger’s new “Pages” gadget to embed an Amazon aStore into a Blogger blog. Now, my Amazon aStore has the same appearance as the other pages on my blog. It has the same header, color scheme, etc. You can use the “Pages” gadget to create other kinds of pages also. For example you can have an “About Us” page, a “Contact Us” page, and a “Frequently Asked Questions” page, just to name a few. You can add up to 10 stand alone pages. Adding pages creates a clickable tab or sidebar link that takes you to a stand alone page which is still a part of your blog. It makes your Blogspot blog look more like a regular webpage than a blog. It does so even more if you remove some the things that are typical to a blog such as the blog archive, recent post and followers.
Step by step how to add Pages to Blogspot blog
The instructions I’m going to give are basically the same as the ones in my Hub about embedding an Amazon aStore in a Blogger blog, but this has different screenshots and is more tailored for this Hub. The steps are very easy. You’ll have your pages created in no time. Your Blogspot blog will be unique and look more like a website when you’re done. Without further ado, here are the steps to spruce up your Blogspot blog by adding pages. Click on screenshots for larger view.
Part 1 - Add a “Pages" gadget to your Bloggspot blog.
- Log in to your Blogger account.
- Go to your blog’s dashboard.
- Click “Layout”.
- Under “Page elements” Click the blue “Add a gadget” link located between the header and the blog post elements.
- This will bring up the “Add a Gadget" pop-up window. Click on "Pages".
- This will bring up the “Configuration Page List” window.
- Look over the options, make any changes you need to, then click the
“Save” button.
- You will now notice the “Page” element located between the header and the blog post elements.
- Click “view your blog” to see
how your blog looks.
- You should have a “Home” link or tab located under your Blogger blog’s header.
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Part 2 - Add a stand alone page to your Blogspot blog.
- Go to your blog’s dashboard.
- Click “Edit Posts".
- Click “Edit Pages”.
- Click “Create a Page”.
- Type in a title for your page title.
- Type or paste in content for your new page. To use HTML, click on “Edit HTML” tab.
- Click “Publish Page”.Click “View Page”.
Success!
You should see your page under your Blogspot blog’s navigation bar and see the page title you gave it. Clicking “Home” should take you to the front page of your Blogspot blog.
Clicking your new page title should take you back to your newly created page.
Want more pages? Add them under "Edit Pages".
Once you add the "Pages" gadget as shown in step 1, you can add up to 10 pages. To add more go to the "Posting" tab, click "Edit Pages", and click the blue button that says "New Page". Then just add your content and click the "Publish Page" button.
Note: I have successfully added the "Pages" gadget to some customize templates that I downloaded from the web. It works with them too. However, if your customized templates has a link bar, you probably won't need to add the "Pages" gadget.
If you want your navigation in the sidebar, move it there.
If you want your pages navigation bar on the side column instead of across the top of your page, you can move it. All you have to do is click the “Layout" tab and “Page elements". Then just click and drag the “Pages” gadget to the sidebar.
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Comments on Blogspot Blogs
Sandy, it works on my custom templates. If you have the "Pages" gadget, you will be able to add up to 10 pages. Once you have the "Pages" gadget in place, you add & create new pages under the "Posting" tab, and "Edit Pages" just click the blue button that says "New Page". Thanks for reading. You can do it girl!
i am using blogger/blogspot for quite a while now. and i agree with you. most of the users uses blog sites as a website and indeed, they look like websites! this was a nice hub. thank you.
Thank you for your nice comment blackhatworld. I like setting up my blogger blogs to look like a website too.
Great information. Now I'm in process of making changes and customize my blogs. Thanks.
Thanks anujagarwal, the pages gadget is nice. You can also customize the favicon and remove the NavBar if you wish. I did some hubs about how to that that too. Thank you again.
Awesome, this article comes in handy for me right now since I am trying to give my blog a website appearance. Now if I can only see some traffic. Thanks a bunch for an awesome read!
Thank you Madison. Do back linking to get traffic to your blog. Best wishes.
Now I must build a blogspot blog. Thanks for sharing. Good stuff.
Blogger_dip, thanks. Blogger has been updating it's look a lot lately. They can look more like a website by adding a few new features. Thank you again.
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So if you are new to blogger world ... start your journey from here.
Another plus point is easy to manage.
@ tede, thank you for commenting.
@SubmissionWork, thanks. You're right Blogger is free and easy for beginner bloggers.
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Thanks for the info and the comment ab_cooldude.
Lovely and Very Lovely Hub, In fact your Hub make start my 2011 for me on positive note.
Thank you very much
Thank you Smartlaw. Happy New Year.
Do you have any idea how to move your Followers into a tab?
Thanks :)
TaraG, I'm sorry but I don't think the "Pages" gadget will do that.
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Blogger Sumon, thanks for your comment. I'm sure to check out your hub. Thank you again.
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Very good article. Really useful.
Fan-pages work great as well,here is my fan-page http://www.facebook.com/AirsoftAmazon and hear is the Hubhttp://urbane-chaos.hubpages.com/hub/Everything-Yo
Thanks, NoRR4Me! I was able to achieve the non-blog look thanks to your advice. Very helpful for noobies to blogger. If you get a minute, you can see a very non-blogger look at http://howtowaxacar.blogspot.com
Sandyspider 2 years ago
I tried this on my sandyspider gifts on blogspot. It wouldn't let me add anything more than Home and Older Post. But I read that with some custom templates it won't work. I will bookmark this and see.