What are Blogger Pages?
Blogger Pages lets you publish static information in a stand alone page in your blog, that is, your page will not be included in the series of posts you made and displayed in your homepage. Instead, pages will be given separate links in your sidebar or as tabs on top of your blog whichever way you choose it to be displayed. (As of this writing you can add up to 10 pages in your blog.) There are a lot of information you can add in your pages, and that depends on your needs, but most of the time, published in static pages are About Us page, Privacy Policy Page, Terms of Use Page etc.
Adding static pages to Blogger has long been a requested feature, especially for individuals who were familiar with other blogging platforms like wordpress. In fact, bloggers have been hacking their Blogger templates to add static pages to their blog. With the addition of this powerful feature, Blogger has made another leap, getting better and meeting the demands of bloggers around the globe.
Checking your template for support of the Pages Feature
Before you can add pages to your blog, you need to check first if the feature is support in your template. (Download template backup first)
1. Go to Layout -> Edit HTML
2. Check the checkbox next to Expand Widget Templates
3. Look for the following lines of HTML
<div id='crosscol-wrapper' style='text-align:center'>
<b:section class='crosscol' id='crosscol' showaddelement='yes'/>
</div>
You might need to change showaddelement='no' to showaddelement='yes', depending on your template.
4. Save your template.
Adding Your Pages
To add a page to your Blogger blog, here are the steps:
1. Login to your Blogger account, go to Posting
2. Click on Edit Pages, then New Page
3. When the page editor appears, add your Title and contents then Publish Page.
You can add more pages if you like.
4. To display your pages, go to Layout->Page Elements
5. Click on Add New Gadget, then add the Pages gadget
6. You can change the order of the pages if you like. When done, click SAVE. You can reposition your Pages gadget to change its appearance, either drag it to the the sidebar or tabs under the header.
7. To view your pages, you can go to your homepage, and the link should be displayed on top or at the sidebar.
That's it. I hope this post helps. Hit the Comments if you find it useful or you find it lacking and needs improvement or you simply have questions or comments. I'll be glad to hear from you.
