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Complete Guide To Adding The New Static Pages And Menu To Blogger

Posted : Sunday, January 24, 2010 | Post Author : Paul Crowe | 10 comments

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Blogger in draft this week announced a great new and much sought after feature simply called 'Pages'.Upon it's release i wrote a post informing you about it but you may have felt short changed as i did not go more deep into how the pages are added.Fear not in this post i will do a step by step tutorial on exactly how to add the static pages to your blog.



For those who missed my original post you can see it Here.But basically if you wanted to add some 'Extra Pages' to your blog, pages that were not a usual post but rather information pages like 'About Me' or 'Contact Me' or the Required 'Privacy Policy' (AdSense require you to have a privacy Policy Click Here for more on this) you would have to write a post and use the post as you About me page etc..

The problem with this was it would be sent to your Google friend connect followers, your Rss subscribers, Your E mail subscribers and would be in your recent posts and Archive.I had shown you some tricks to avoid as much of this as possible but the Rss and Followers could not be stopped.

Now with Static pages you can add 10 stand alone pages, They will still be within your blog and these pages will be displayed as links in a top or sidebar menu.Another quiet common request was for built in menu bars so we are killing two birds with one stone.

First off you can see a menu bar i add to my demonstration blog Click Here to see the Sample / Demo .

I will show you at the bottom of this post how to create the Contact me form and other Static pages first we will look at adding the pages.

Blogger In Draft.

The first step is to log into blogger via Blogger in draft.Blogger in draft is a way for Blogger to allow users to test new features, if the users find problems with the new features they can report them, if there are no problems or once all problems have been fixed the new feature gets added to the main blogger site.

Recent features that were launched in blogger in draft and are now available on the main blogger site are : * Import / Export * Posting Gadget * Embedded Comment Form * Reactions * New Dashboard * Google Gadgets *Feed Subscription * Blog List * Scheduled Posts * OpenID Provider * OpenID Commenting

So once any glitches have been ironed out of static pages it will be available in the main blogger site.For now you will need to log in to Blogger via Blogger in Draft, and that's the first step..