Creating pages and adding menu tabs in BloggerRecently we posted an article on beginners guide to blogging with Blogger, but what you might ask is, haven’t you explained about creating pages and menu tabs on that beginners guide? Yes, we explained about creating pages but that is not much detailed. So in this post you will learn about creating pages and adding menu tabs in Blogger blog

Creating pages and adding menu tabs in Blogger

Creating pages in Blogger

Before learning about creating a page you must know the difference between posts and pages. To brief you about pages here is an example: “About us” page is all about your blog and about you and this is static. “Contact us” page is used to contact you and this is static. This post on “creating pages and adding menu tabs in Blogger blog” is informational and this is dynamic.
  1. Login to your Blogger dashboard and click pages next below to posts
  2. By default you will have a home page. Now create a new blank page
  3. Give a well suited page title and fill out your content
Creating pages and adding menu tabs in Blogger
As it’s mentioned above pages are static and you shouldn’t allow visitors to comment on pages
  1. On right side choose page settings >> options with gear symbol and select “Don’t allow” for comments
  2. Click “publish” once done. Now your page is live.
Creating pages and adding menu tabs in Blogger
By this way you can create as many pages you want. Now you don’t see the page links in your site and to show you need to add a menu tab.
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Adding menu tabs in Blogger

Menu tabs in Blogger helps you and users to easily navigate to the most resourceful pages in your blog and you can add pages, external links and labels as your menu tab.

Adding pages in Blogger menu tab

With above mentioned method we hope you successfully created your pages. To add your pages in menu go to dashboard >> pages and select show pages as “Top tabs” or “Side links” and click save arrangement. Now refresh your site you can see your page menus.
Creating pages and adding menu tabs in Blogger

Adding external link in Blogger menu tab

Go to Blogger dashboard >> Pages and drop down the new page and select web address. Enter the URL and give it a suitable title and save. With this option you can add external web links as well your site links (labels).
Creating pages and adding menu tabs in Blogger
Labels help you to organize your posts. For example in blogging label you can organize as many topics related to blogging so users find more useful in picking a topic. When you create a new post you can see labels at the right side, open and enter useful labels related to that post.
Creating pages and adding menu tabs in Blogger
To add labels in Blogger menu go to dashboard >> Layout and select add a gadget; a new window opens, now “select labels” option and select the major labels that you wish to show in your menu and click save. To place your labels in top menu just drag and drop in your Layout screen.
Creating pages and adding menu tabs in Blogger
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