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		<title>Static Pages in Blogger and more</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before, to make separate pages for special sections of your Blogger blog (About, Contact, Sitemap, etc&#8230;) you have to make posts with the page names as titles. This was a big nuisance because these posts appeared in your main page and archives and hiding them meant using special tricks and hardcoding. On January 20, the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before, to make separate pages for special sections of your Blogger blog (About, Contact, Sitemap, etc&#8230;) you have to make posts with the page names as titles. This was a big nuisance because these posts appeared in your main page and archives and hiding them meant using special tricks and hardcoding. On January 20, the Blogger team introduced pages in <a title="Blogger in draft" href="http://draft.blogger.com/">Blogger in draft</a>. Now you can make static pages  that do not count as posts.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-839" title="Blogger in draft" src="http://www.starmarsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Blogger-draft.gif" alt="Blogger in draft logo" width="480" height="190" /></p>
<p><span id="more-837"></span>To make a new page, go to the &#8220;Posting&#8221; tab* and click Edit Pages. Write the new page and publish. For your first page, you will be given an option to choose where to put the Pages list. &#8220;Blog sidebar&#8221; is the same as adding a new widget in your sidebar through &#8220;Add a Gadget.&#8221; &#8220;Blog tabs &#8221; creates a new tab under the header with the page links. This may not work in custom templates. Read <a href="http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=165955#templates">here</a> for instructions in making your custom template compatible with Pages Tabs. The address of the new page is http://<em>blogname</em>.blogspot.com/p/<em>pagename</em>.html with hyphens replacing spaces.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-840" title="Blogger pages" src="http://www.starmarsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Blogger-pages-widget.jpg" alt="Blogger pages" width="480" height="324" /></p>
<p>In addition to the new static pages in Blogger, I also noticed some other features. These may have been available for quite some time. When writing a post, the Post Options just below the writing area gives you more control over some elements of your post.</p>
<p>You can disable comments for a particular post, show HTML literally in Compose mode (lets you type HTML code &#8220;as is&#8221;) and publish the post at a specific date and time in the future (scheduled posting).</p>
<p>For your current posts, you can now edit the time and date of the posting. What a neat feature! I tested this and it actually lets you change the order of your posts.</p>
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<p>*I encountered a bug wherein Edit Pages is not visible. To solve this, go back to your dashboard and click New Post again.</p>
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