Creating the Static Home Page or Page into Blogger

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Creating a static page in Blogger is something like 'Home Page' or ‘Main Page’ from the Blogger Pages menu item. There are several steps you should follow although little bit trick and fun.

Don't call it 'Home' yet because we're going to alter the home link later. When you click on the 'Pages' left menu item in the Blogger editor main menu you will see that there is already a 'Home' link on the screen. Ignore that for now and just go up to the 'New Page' drop down box and select the 'Blank page' option:

You'll now be in the Page editor which looks a lot like the Blogger Post editor. At the top enter a page name such as 'Home Page' or 'Main Page' for now and some default text - we'll alter it later. Just go ahead and press 'Publish':

 

Now that you've created a static page, the next steps are are a bit tricky since you need to make sure your static page becomes 'Home' and the old Home link is hidden especially if you want to use menus.

Redirecting the Blogger Home Page to a Static Page

The great thing about the new Blogger template is that you can redirect pages to other pages now in the 'Settings' menu. Oddly, it is buried deep within the Blogger settings under 'Search Preferences':

Then choose the 'Edit' text link just to the right of the 'Custom Redirect' item. Now, this is a very critical step - be sure to enter the following text into the From: and To: boxes in the Redirect dialog:

In the From: box enter only a forward slash - "/". In the To: box enter the exact page name - in our case it was "/p/home-page.html". All Blogger static pages have a /p in front of the URL. You can see that the html name was the page title we used, so if you used something else for your title like 'Main Page' then the html would be /p/main-page.html.

And press the little 'Save' text link and then the 'Save changes' button highlighted in the image above. Now your done, and try to access your blog now - you should go directly to the new static page from the main URL.

Okay !!!... Good work and Enjoy.