Create a Custom Landing Page for your Blogger Site

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We see many Blog sites that use the Welcome page or Landing Page. Creating a better impression of a Blog Landing page is necessary. Landing page required for any announcement, content warning, Site profile, displaying all post list or any other kinds of purpose. 

You may also use a landing page for displaying your Blog information, as well as your company profile can be displayed on welcome page. There is the major benefit of a landing page is the swift load. 

Suppose your blog is completely full with graphics or added many graphics then you may use the landing page for faster load. Your blog visitors will love it.

Easy Steps for Coding a Custom Blogger Landing Page
How to Create a Custom Landing Page for your Blogger Site?


So I will show you about the trick to display landing page in your Blog. And how we can make it attractive by adding simple piece of Graphics with welcome message or site information. 

Before proceed your Blog should have Page widget.  And for the tutorial purpose I have applied this  tutorial on Blogger default template but it will 100% work on any custom blogger template.

Creating a Welcome or Landing Page

For creating landing page you must have to create a new page with graphics and message for your visitors. However you can also show an specific blog post or any other page on your landing page. But though we will display a landing page so just follow the below steps-

Step #1: Sing in to your Blogger Account and Go to Blogger Dashboard

Step #2: Now Click on Blogger Dashboard -> Pages -> Blank Page

Step #3: After that switch to HTML view from top left corner. 

<style>
#sidebar-wrapper, #midsidebar-wrapper,.column-left-outer, .column-right-outer, .gapad2, .blog-pager, .post-header-line-1, .post-footer, #comments {
display:none !important;
}
#main-wrapper { width:99%!important;}
.post { width:99%!important; }
.fauxcolumn-outer { width:99%!important; }
.main-inner .columns { width:99%!important; }
</style>

Step #5: After that Switch to Compose view. And now add any suitable graphics and write your message there. After that press the Publish button from top right corner of the screen.

Step #6: Now open your Created Page and get the Link for example
  • http://bloggerspice.com/p/about-us.html

from the above link we need only
  • We need only /p/about-us.html part for further use.

Adding Page widget in Blogger Layout section

Now we will add Page widget in Blogger layout section. Try to add this widget at the top of the page.

Step #1: Log in to your Blogger Account and Go to your Blogger Dashboard

Step #2: Go to your Layout tab.

Step #3: Click on "Add a Gadget" then select "Pages" Widget.

page widget

Step #4: Now under Pages to show click on +Add external link and a popup windows will open.

configure page

Step #5: Now under Page title field write Blog or your Site name. And under Web address (URL)  field write your Blog URL like below-

  • http://YourBlogURL.com/search

For Example:
  • http://www.bloggerspice.com/search


web address

Step 6 Now click on Save Link button to close the window.

Adding Link on Custom Redirect section

This is the final stage, here we will use a custom redirect system where Your Blog will redirect to your Landing page.

Step #1: Go to Blogger Dashboard and click on -> Settings -> Search Preferences

Step #2 Now under  Errors and redirections click on -> Custom Redirects ->Edit

Step #3: In the 'Form' field, insert a (forward slash) /

custom redirects

Step #4: In the 'To' field, insert the last part of your Landing page URL /p/about-us.html  that I have already explain above.

Step #5: Click on Check box next to Permanent option. And Click Save text link.

Step #6: Finally hit the Save changes button.


welcome page

The above Image displaying the final output of my landing Page. I just added a simple welcome image and written about my Blog within a paragraph. 

However you can design with your own way. For Further help feel free to write me. 
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