News!! Spider Web Log Home-Pages In Addition To Mobile-Templates: Create They Function Together?

This article discusses the issues of giving your weblog a domicile page, as well as how this plant for people using mobile devices.

Previously I've described the options for giving your weblog a "home page", as well as also how as well as why to enable a mobile template for your blog.

The domicile page (aka landing page) upshot was a challenge amongst no expert solution for a long fourth dimension - until someone cleverer than me spotted the potential offered past times the custom-redirect feature.   With this, you lot tin hand notice seat the content for a "home page" into a post service or page, as well as thus redirect your blog's "landing page URL" (www.yourBlog.blogspot.com) to it.

However, I accept establish that if you lot accept enabled a mobile template for your blog, then this approach does non move for visitors using mobile devices.

Instead of the domicile page that non-mobile visitors see, mobile-using visitors are shown a mobile-specific page with:

• Your header,
• The page gadget (if you've used i - it's non used inwards this example) equally a drop-down list
• A listing of tiles - i post service each (more close these below)
• An older posts / domicile / newer posts navigation tool
• A link to sentiment the web-version
• A mobile attribution gadget (unless you've removed it)
• An AdSense ad-unit, if you lot accept seat AdSense into your weblog using the AdSense gadget(*).

There may hold upwards some dissimilar things too, if you lot accept chosen the "custom" mobile template choice as well as added other gadgets to hold upwards shown on mobile.

But a telephone commutation indicate is that any home-page custom-redirect that you lot accept laid upwards does non work - fifty-fifty though other custom-redirects (ie non involving your domicile page) practise work.



(*) The rules for whether this is shown or non are genuinely a footling to a greater extent than complex - simply that's a topic for some other day!

What practise mobile users meet on their post-tiles.

The landing page for a mobile user includes a vertical "tiled" listing of posts.

 In this, each tile has:

• The appointment as well as post service title,
• The post-thumbnail photo and
• The start few words for the post service (less than the whole snippet though) for a post.

They are sorted past times descending-date - important that your most recent post service is at the top of the list.

The applies if  you are using a criterion (ie designer) or custom mobile template.

The recently-introduced dynamic mobile template is dissimilar i time again - inwards it, the tiled post service looks to a greater extent than similar the "before the jump" summary shown on your regular weblog - simply fifty-fifty so, it is withal a listing of posts sorted inwards reverse-date order, non a custom home-page.

What this agency for bloggers who tending close their domicile page

There are principal things that you lot take to retrieve about:

• Using a mobile template gives you lot far less control over your mobile landing page - although it tin hand notice hold upwards laid upwards to move good if you understand how it operates, as well as if you don't heed your weblog looking similar a blog, non a webpage..

• If you lot accept a mobile template enabled, as well as you lot desire mobile visitors to your weblog to ever meet i post service first, thus you lot take to make certain that this post service ever has the most recent post-date.

• With a non-dynamic mobile template enabled, visitors won't meet whole posts or earlier the restrict post-summaries initially: instead they meet fifty-fifty to a greater extent than abbreviated summary tiles.

• With a dynamic mobile template enabled, visitors volition meet post-tiles that are to a greater extent than similar the post-summary from the principal weblog (even if it's using a non-dynamic template) - simply they withal won't meet your custom landing page.

If you lot are non happy amongst mobile visitors to your weblog existence shown a tiled-list of posts, thus you lot should not enable a mobile template - as well as you lot should disable it if you've already enabled one

This volition hateful that people using a mobile device to hold back at your weblog volition meet a full-featured version, that they volition most probable accept to scroll around to view, ie they won't meet the whole covert at i glance.   Though this sounds painful, inwards 2 of my blogs, I've decided that this is genuinely the best approach.

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Related Articles:

Enabling a mobile template for Blogger

Deleting "Powered past times Blogger" from mobile-template blogs

Making i post service ever come upwards up first

How to hand your weblog a fixed landing page

Understanding post.thumbnail as well as post.snippet

Using Blogger to create a "real" website

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