Two Types of Static Pages You Can Create and Use in Blogger (Blogspot.com)

Blogspot (blogger.com) supports static Page, along with regular Post. That's what many bloggers know. But do you know, the Page feature actually provides 2 type of Page, one is regular Page, another is (can be called) Forwarding Page.

Here's the details of the 2 types of page:

1. Regular page

What is  Regular page

Regular page is a stand-alone page that separates from your default home page. Each time after you publish a post, it always goes to your home page and showing at the top, which will not affect other stand-alone pages.

For example, you can create an About This Blog page that discusses the evolution of your blog, or a Contact Me page that provides introductions about yourself.

How to create Regular page

You can create pages by going to dashboard, click on Pages->New Pages->Blank page, as in following screenshot:

Advance use

Once pages have been created, you can enable these pages as tabs (menu) at the top of your blog or in the sidebar. Check my following post for details:

How to Add Tab Menu at the Top of the Page in Blogger (Blogspot)
 
2.  Forwarding Page

I call the 2nd type of page as Forwarding Page, because it's not a actual static page like the regular page, it's just a page name that forwards to another webpage address (URL).

For example, take a look at my following tab bar, the tab "Customize" is not an actual page, it forwards to the web address (URL)  for one of my labels "Customize".

When using this Forwarding Page, you can forward it to any other web addresses you want, it can be a individual post, or a label (category), or another website.

How to create a Forwarding Page

To create a Forwarding Page, go to your blog dashboard, click on Pages->New Pages->Web address (screenshot above) , then you will get following popup window:

Create a Forwarding Page in Blogger (screenshot)

 Type in your Page name and forwarding web address, click on Save, you done !

3. How can web visitors access your pages ?

Once your page is published, you can link to it from the Pages widget, put the page name list at the top tab bar or at the side widget bar. fro details, please Check my following post:

How to Add Tab Menu at the Top of the Page in Blogger (Blogspot)

It's Your Turn

How do you like the page feature? How do you use the page feature? What's the pros and cons for the Page? Share your experience and insights in the comments box below.