Create Static Pages (About/Contact/Advertise) in Blogger Blog

Usually people on Blogger are seen confused about creating static pages after they see them on wordpress blogs. In blogger there is no such option to create a separate static page other than simple post. You have to use this only option to create pages like , “About us”, “Contact us”, “Advertise” etc.

The only problem in creating these pages as a post, is that they start appearing on the home page just like regular posts of your blog. To overcome this you can do two things:

1. Create these pages as soon as you create your blog before starting proper blogging.
2. Or hide these type of pages from the main home page.

Almost all new bloggers (just like me :p) start blogging without understanding the need of these (About/Contact/Advertise etc) pages in the beginning and realize it later when they see these pages on almost all professional blogs.

Good News for Blogger users is that no matter how old is your blog you can also create these pages with ease and prevent them from appearing on your blog’s main pages.

Follow the simple steps:

1. Create a new post and put all the text (or contact form’s script) in the post’s body.

2. Before publishing, click “Post Options” and Click “Don’t Allow” under Comments to hide the comment form on this post.

3. Now change the date with some old date. You can leave the current date, month… just change the year to something before year 2000.
(e.g If current date is 4/12/09, change it to 4/12/99)

This trick buries the post in the bottom of all the posts you have. Blogger considers the post older and pushes it down in your posts list. (You may check it in “Edit Post” tab, after publishing)

4. Now check your blog, you’ll notice see that this post, doesn’t appear on home page.

5. Now go to “Edit Posts” and find this post (at the bottom) and copy the post’s link

(You can do this by viewing the post or right click at “view” and select “copy link location”)

6. Go to Layout -> edit HTML and find links that correspond at menu links on (top of) your blog, and modify them with the post’s link you just copied.