How to Design Your Home Page

Designing Your Home Page

Your blog’s home page is a important part of your blog. It’s your online welcome page and needs to be set up to make visitors feel comfortable as well as give them quick and easy access to the various parts of your blog that they’re most interested in and that you want to make sure they see. 

The blog you’re starting is a reflection of you and your professional life. Even if your blog is for personal expression, it represents who you are. So, make sure that you have a good handle on how you want to present yourself to the world.

It is very important that your Blog theme is related to your blog content because It attract your readers to come back on your blog. If you are beginner and don't know how to Customize your Blog layout then don't worry about that we will discuss that in this blog. 

Understanding Blog Layout 

1. From the Blogger dashboard, click the Layout link for your blog.

2. Select the Pick New Template tab from the top navigation bar and choose the template you like from the Templates page. Make sure to click the Save Template button if you want to switch to a different theme.


3. Select the Page Elements tab from the top navigation bar to customize your blog’s home page.


4. Click and drag page element boxes to move them around your page.

5. Click Edit on any of the page element boxes to modify the appearance of each individual page element.


6. Select Add a Gadget to choose from a list of gadgets you can add to your blog.


7. Click the Preview button to see how your changes will look, and choose the Save button to save your changes when you’re happy with the layout of your blog’s homepage.

Lets know about some options of Layout tab :-

Logos -  It is not important that you have a logo but again if you have a good logo it attract audience to your blog. Logos can hold a visitor’s attention long enough to get him interested in reading some of your blog. Logo is located near the top of each blog page. 

Headers - It is generally name of your Blog. Header should explain what your blog is about and you can add about yourself like you can add you picture and write some interesting thing about you that will definitely attract your readers. 

Sidebars - It is the major part of your blog. Sidebars contain things like your followers , social networking sites, famous posts , archive links, or anything that you want to share with your visitors outside the context of a blog post.

Footers -  Generally this part contain privacy policy, terms and conditions, Contact us...... etc options. 

Customizing Your Blog

One reason that Blogger is so easy to use is that users can customize their blogs by visiting just a few pages from the Blogger dashboard and then picking and choosing options and saving those choices.


Publishing, configuring privacy, editing, and composing :-

• The Basic settings page is a page you shouldn’t skip when you start your new Blogger Blog.
• On this page, you can make your blog public or private, add a blog description, change your blog title, and set up editing options.

Now what do you want to do is just follow the steps:-

1. Enter a title for your blog in the Title text box.

2. Enter a description for your blog in the Description box.

3. Select Yes or No from the Add Your Blog to Our Listings drop down box. When you select Yes, your blog is displayed occasionally on the Blogger home page, on Blogger Play (a slide show of photos published on Blogger blogs) and Next Blog (the navigation bar that appears at the top of all Blogger blogs).


And I recommend you to not use remaining options. We will discuss them later.


In next blog we will discuss about how to edit your template.
And Thankyou for visiting and reading my Blog.