News!! Giving Your Spider Web Log A Domicile Page

This article is almost the options for setting the abode page for blogs made amongst Google's Blogger.

Blogs don't conduct maintain a "home page", principal page or "landing page" inwards the same agency that regular web-sites do.  Instead, they demonstrate the newest post first, since (hopefully!) most readers volition endure supply visitors, coming dorsum to meet what's new.

But in that place may endure blogs/websites where you lot desire a welcome message or a special post service to look kickoff whenever somebody visits your blog, or where you lot desire to lay all your posts inwards opposite order.

This article is almost options for giving your Blogger weblog a "home page".

It lists 4 options, as well as gives advantages/disadvantages of each approach, as well as links to articles amongst details almost implementing each case. If you lot tin think of whatsoever to a greater extent than approaches, delight exit a comment below.

Options for giving your weblog a abode page include:

• Static page combined amongst a custom re-direct - every bit discovered yesteryear Nitecruzr, as well as instantly described here.  This was my recommended method of home-page implementation for a while.   However it did non piece of job on mobile themes for a while, thence I changed my mind.  But it does piece of job on them now, thence I'm dorsum to recommending it again.

• Displaying all the posts inwards opposite order

• Choosing 1 post service to endure a welcome message, as well as ever giving it the latest post-date

• Displaying a gadget at the transcend of your posts area, as well as alone showing it on the abode page.

Advantages as well as Disadvantages of each option

Option	Advantages	Disadvantages
Static page as well as custom re-direct	No topic editing is needed Easy page editing - no messing merely about putting content into a gadget No gaps on other pages due to the gadget existence "missing" Simple, elegant, as well as fully functional for both desktop as well as mobile visitors.	Back inwards 2011, I wrote:   "Google in all likelihood didn't intend to give us this choice when they ready custom re-directs, thence it's possible that they powerfulness take it again.   It's such a prissy solution, though, that I think it's worth the risk for now". But it's instantly 2017, they haven't removed it yet.   So I'm thinking that it's non going away whatsoever fourth dimension soon.
Show all posts inwards opposite order	Great for novel readers - they tin "follow the story".	Return visitors conduct maintain to navigate downwardly to where they were upwards to terminal time:  the weblog has no agency of helping them to recall where that was. You can't utilisation most of Blogger's appointment features:  newer as well as older posts links volition conduct maintain the reader inwards the "wrong" direction.  And you lot conduct maintain to manually move inwards whatsoever dates that would endure relevant. Your posts volition larn "older" every bit you lot write more:  this may confuse search-engines, as well as there's a risk that google powerfulness to things to "very old" posts inwards the future.
Make 1 post service ever demonstrate upwards first	You tin even thence utilisation all of Google's appointment features. Readers volition know when you lot genuinely posted to your blog. Great for returning readers:  they tin meet your (current) welcome comments, as well as and thence larn direct to the latest post service later that.	You conduct maintain to recall to edit the "chosen" post service every unmarried fourth dimension that you lot brand a novel post service - 1 day, you lot powerfulness forget. This approach in all likelihood won't piece of job on multi-author blogs:  there's a really high endangerment that somebody would forget to edit the chosen post service as well as alter its date.
Show a "welcome gadget" on the abode page only	Doesn't bespeak whatsoever changes to Post date-time settings. Your weblog even thence functions similar a weblog (older/newer post service links , archive gadget etc). An HTML/Javascript gadget tin endure really flexible, as well as you lot tin larn Blogger to write all the HTML for you lot - meet Making a Gadget Like a Post. You tin utilisation things other than text, eg a movie or fifty-fifty a poll. It includes an extreme option:  you lot could demonstrate no posts on the "home" page, as well as merely demonstrate the gadget.	You bespeak to edit your topic to brand this work. You bespeak to re-do the topic customisation every fourth dimension that you lot alter to utilisation a dissimilar theme. The welcome gadget isn't 1 of your posts: it's non included inwards exports of your weblog contents (It is inwards an export of your topic - but the words within it are non included). H5N1 gadget cannot demonstrate quite every bit many things every bit a post.   Doesn't piece of job for mobile device users if your weblog has a mobile topic enabled, unless you lot some some specific things to brand the gadget demonstrate on mobile.

Can you lot think of other ways?   Please exit a comment below.

Setting the homepage's post service appointment into the hereafter doesn't work

Some people advise that you lot tin set the post-date of your principal page inwards the hereafter - as well as at some times  this has worked.

But instantly that scheduled posting is working the agency most people aspect it to (ie if you lot write a post service today, as well as issue it amongst tomorrow's date, as well as thence it is shown to your readers from tomorrow onwards), this volition non work - because your "home page" won't demonstrate until that hereafter appointment is reached.

There may endure some ways you lot tin fudge it inwards to working (eg post service the page amongst a appointment inwards the past, as well as and thence post service it over again amongst a hereafter date).   But I VERY STRONGLY don't recommend this:  fifty-fifty if they piece of job today, they may halt working at some fourth dimension inwards the hereafter when Google brand a alter to how future-dated posts are handled.

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Displaying a gadget alone on the abode page

Showing your oldest post service kickoff inwards Blogger (AKA Showing your posts inwards opposite order)

Making 1 post service ever come upwards up first

Changing the appointment for a post.

Stopping sure as shooting pages from ever appearing on the abode page

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