Customize Tabs on Pages Gadget

This one is a real quicky. In this tutorial, you will learn how to customize the tabs and its links on the Pages gadgets.

Dedicated Separate Archive Page

This tutorial teaches you how to create a separate archive page, on a static page. That means, you'd be able to see a dedicated static page on your menu, on which you can click on to view your blog's archive. You can choose to display or not to display conventional archive gadget on the sidebar, that's totally up to you. Anyway, you can check out a sample here:

http://www.test2.southernspeakers.net/p/archive.html

The idea behind this tutorial is to place the Archive gadget on all the pages, and then code it in such a way that it will only be visible on one selected static page. Before starting this tutorial, I am going to assume that you already have an Archive Static Page created and optionally Pages Gadget (menu bar) placed below your header.

Virtual Static Page with Selected Posts in it

I realized that this is another common effect that bloggers are trying to achieve but has no direct solution to it. So this tutorial is made especially for you guys. In this tutorial, you will learn how to link to posts sorted by a specific label, and place this link on your Pages Gadget or Menu Bar or Navigation Bar. If you still don't know what I am talking about, imagine a link on your menu bar which you can click on, and this link will bring you to a page similar to your main page, but with only selected posts in it.

Some bloggers are looking ways to achieve this using static pages. Unfortunately, you can't do it using a static page. Blog posts are dynamic, and static pages are static, the two certainly don't mix. However, we can simulate this effect. In this tutorial you will learn how to simulate an effect of having posts in a static page which already have texts or images. So it'd look like a normal static page, but with selected posts on it. And you don't need to waste a static page to do this! From here on, I will be addressing this page as Virtual Static Page.

So, in short, what you will get is a menu which has extra tabs on it, and when you click that tab, you will be brought to a page which has posts that you have specifically selected. In addition, you could also have texts or images there to act like a header of that page. You can check out my test blog here:


http://yoboytestblog.blogspot.com

Blogger Tips: Setting Up Homepage

By default your index page, which is the page that you'd get when you type in a domain, is the page where your main post body is located. Thus, when you visit a blog, you'd see posts in your index page. Whereas in a website, usually an index page is an introductory page, and you'd be able to click a tab from the menu to bring you to the blog/posts page. This is what we are trying to achieve in this tutorial.

Test Blog


In this tutorial, you'd be able to have a homepage, with no posts on it, and you can click on a tab to bring your reader to your posts. On the downside, this method is not so straight forward, and it involves some hardcoding. Something not so suitable for beginners, but feel free to try it out.

Transformers Leader Class Starscream Review

Another precious gift from my Girlfriend. This time, Transformers Hunt for the Decepticons Leader Class Starscream. A really slow, detailed, step-by-step review made specifically for the beginners. As usual, Robot to Alternative Mode (F22 Raptor Jet) review.