Formatting Posts, Times, Dates, and Languages in Your Blogger Blog
You should set several formatting configurations before you start writing and publishing blog posts, such as time, date, and language options. Select the Formatting tab from the Settings navigation bar to display the Formatting page, shown in the figure below.
Then follow these steps to configure how your blog posts are displayed to visitors:
1. Select the number of posts you want to display on your blog’s home page by choosing these options:
• From the Show drop-down menu, select Posts or Days to display a designated number of posts on your blog’s main page or a designated number of days’ worth of posts on your blog’s main page.
• In the Show box, enter the number of posts or days’ worth of posts you want to display on your blog’s main page based on the setting you selected from the Show drop-down menu.
The number of posts you show on your blog’s home page is entirely up to you, but remember that people don’t like to scroll too much. Displaying 5 to 10 posts (depending on post length) on your home page is a common target to keep your blog readable.
2. From the Date Header Format drop-down menu, select in which format you want the dates to appear on your blog. This date appears at the top of your blog, above your posts, to remind visitors what day it is.
3. From the Archive Index Date Format drop-down menu, select the format of the dates used in the Archive Links page element on your blog’s sidebar. Older posts are automatically archived so they’re easily accessible from the Archive Links page element in your blog’s sidebar. It’s up to you to decide how you want your archived posts to display in your sidebar. Choose the date format that you prefer by configuring the Archive Index
Date Format setting.
4. From the Timestamp Format drop-down menu, select the format you want to use for the publication date for your blog posts. A timestamp appears at the bottom of each blog post that tells readers
when each post was published. Changing the Timestamp Format alters how that date appears on each blog post.
5. Select your time zone from the Time Zone drop-down menu. Selecting the correct time zone ensures that your date header and timestamps synchronize correctly to your location.
6. Select your language from the Language drop-down menu.
Blogger is available in a variety of languages. Make sure that you select the correct language for your blog.
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