Designing Your Home Blog's Page
Your blog’s home page is a critical element of your blog. It’s your online welcome page and needs to be set up to make visitors feel comfortable as well as give them quick and easy access to the various parts of your blog that they’re most interested in and that you want to make sure they see. Before you publish your first blog post, take a few minutes to look at your blog’s layout to ensure that all the elements you want visitors to see are easy to find. Avoid cluttering your home page with too much information and too many elements. Be sure that your design allows your readers to find the most valuable information and links. Follow these steps to pick and choose the page elements you want to display on the home page of your blog:
1. From the Blogger dashboard, click the Layout link for your blog. This step takes you to the Page Elements page, shown below.
2. Select the Pick New Template tab from the top navigation bar and choose the template you like from the Templates page. Make sure to click the Save Template button if you want to switch to a different theme. This step opens a page where you can view and select a Blogger template for your blog.
3. Select the Page Elements tab from the top navigation bar to customize your blog’s home page. After your template is chosen, you can return to the Page Elements page to select the elements and gadgets you want visitors to see on your blog.
4. Click and drag page element boxes to move them around your page. Moving elements on your screen moves them to new locations on your blog.
5. Click Edit on any of the page element boxes to modify the appearance of each individual page element. For example, you can choose to revise your profile (the About Me page element) directly from the Page Elements page by selecting Edit in the About Me box and choosing the appropriate changes.
6. Select Add a Gadget to choose from a list of gadgets you can add to your blog. A new window opens where you can choose from a variety of gadgets to further customize the appearance of your blog’s home page, as shown below.
7. Click the Preview button to see how your changes will look, and choose the Save button to save your changes when you’re happy with the layout of your blog’s homepage. Don’t be afraid to test different gadgets. Use the Preview button to see what you like and don’t like. Everything can be customized, and nothing can be viewed by visitors until you click the Save button.
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