News!! Blogs, Blogger, Bloggers, Posts, Pages Together With Screens - Approximately Basic Definitions

This article defines some of the basic words if you lot are using Google Blogger.  It is helpful if you lot are only getting started, too demand to accurately depict a occupation you lot are having.   It is business office of a serial of articles nigh getting started alongside Blogger.

Google, Blogger too Blogging, Posts

Google, the noun, (sometimes called Google Inc or Google Ltd) is a company.  They became famous past times creating a very, rattling useful search engine.  Since then, equally good equally making the search engine fifty-fifty better, they've created (or purchased) lots of other tools equally well, too instruct rich past times selling on-line advertising infinite within their tools.

Using their most-popular tool (www.google.com), you lot tin google (a verb), ie search, for things.    (The same agency that you lot tin hoover the floor, or xerox a slice of paper.)

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 blog is a "binary log", which is only geek-ese for "a diary you lot maintain on the internet".   Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 spider web log tin comprise anything you lot desire to write, for example:

• a fantasy story that you lot made up, 
• a factual trace of piece of work organisation human relationship of your life, 
• your opinions nigh politics
• newsletters from a guild you lot belong to
• information nigh your trace of piece of work organisation too the services you lot offer
• and many many more

Blogger is a slice of software (ie a estimator program) provided past times Google, which lets you lot practise a a blog.

A blogger (small b) is a mortal who writes a blog.  They may purpose Blogger, or diverse other types of blogging software (eg WordPress, TypePad)

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Post is the basic item that you lot lay out onto your blog.   After you lot direct hold been blogging (writing a blog) for a while, you lot spider web log volition (usually) direct hold many Posts.

Pages - AKA Static Pages

In regular websites, a page is roughly the same equally a hide (at to the lowest degree equally far equally anyone who reads this article needs to know).

Until recently, most documentation nigh Blogger talked nigh Pages equally through a Page was something that showed 1 or to a greater extent than Posts.  (More nigh these soon.)

However Google introduced a novel feature, called Pages, into Blogger inwards early on 2010.

These Pages were intended for bloggers who desire some fabric on their spider web log which is slightly dissimilar from the rest:  it's non business office of the commons fabric that they publish, too stays electrical flow too relevant inwards a agency that older posts don't.   Typical pages content includes contact-details, frequently-asked-questions, or "about this blog" statements.

Pages are edited using a tool that is similar to the Posts editor, but they direct hold some small-scale differences:  eg they don't direct hold a publication-date hence they don't appear inwards the Archive.  (See hither for a sum description of the divergence betwixt Pages too Posts.)

Pages also direct hold a gadget all of their ain (called the Pages Gadget), which tin endure used to laissez passer on a "menu bar" at the top, or bottom, or inwards the sidebar of your blog.   

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 substitution divergence betwixt regular websites too blogs is that Posts don't buy the farm onto Pages:  all your Posts buy the farm onto what feels similar the "main page", too the other pages are for reference materials only.   There are ways around this, eg using labels to categorise your blog, too making it facial expression similar you lot direct hold lay posts into pages past times making a horizontal linked-list of label-search statements instead of the measure pages gadget, but fifty-fifty this isn't quite what many people expect.

Some people refer to Pages equally Static-pages, to sweat to avoid the confusion.  I don't purpose that term because:

1. It's non the term that Google/Blggger uses, and
2. Some of the target data (eg contact details for a club) is non static - it could alter many times over the life of the blog.

Templates too Collections of Posts

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Template is a command file that determines how a spider web log volition look.  Blogs that are nigh dissimilar topics may purpose the same template:  their content volition endure different, but they volition facial expression rattling similar to a mortal who reads them.

I direct hold late started using Screen to refer the display that Blogger generates each fourth dimension that someone looks at your blog.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Posts Screen may demo 1,2, iii or fifty-fifty dozens of posts.   The issue of posts shown is controlled past times an pick that the blogger sets using the Layout > Blog Posts tab, too past times a Blogger-controlled characteristic called auto-pagination, which restricts overly large collections of posts, hence that Blogger plant to a greater extent than rapidly overall.
 
If a spider web log has a Layout or Designer template (see Types of Blogger template), hence in that place are links close the terminate of each hide for Newer Posts too Older Posts:  clicking them direct hold the user to a novel Screen, which shows a ready of newer or older posts.

There are other types of Screen also:

• If a spider web log has a Labels gadget, hence clicking equally pick inwards it opens a List of Posts hide showing all published Posts inwards the spider web log that direct hold the corresponding Label.
• If a spider web log has an Archive gadget, hence clicking an pick inwards it opens a List of Posts hide showing all published Posts inwards the spider web log that were published inwards that fourth dimension period.

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