How to get a horizontal navigation bar to work perfectly in Blogger. I had previously written about how I wanted to create a horizontal navigation bar with tabs that could could link within my blog. I had come to the conclusion that using Pages was the wrong way to do this. I WAS WRONG!
How to create a Page that can link within your blog?
The first step is to change to the updated Blogger interface. I had first resisted this when it first came out but now realize that was a mistake. I find now I really like the clean design of it.
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| The updated Blogger interface is a major improvement over the previous version. |
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| Updated options with new Blogger Interface. |
Get ready to add new pages. The first option is 'Blank Pages' which are perfect for your 'Contact Me' or 'About Me" page, or as Blogger describes it "Add text and media". The new option that wasn't in the previous interface, or if it was it was well hidden, is the 'Web Address' option. This can be used to "send readers to another web address" or best of all to a spot within your blog.
Page title and URL. The 'page title' is what is going to appear in your navigation tab and the URL is without explanation the webpage that you want to link to. Save your work and View your Blog. Voila!!
My experience: The first page that I created was to search for all my blog posts with the same label. In this case it was http://www.steveccoleman.com/search/label/Blogger since I wanted to share tips about Blogger as I learned them. This one especially made me happy since I was so frustrated the first time I tried to achieve the same goal. The new Blogger interface made it too easy which is OK for me.
Have you found any other features in the new interface that made your blogging life easier?
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