How to Create a Homepage in Blogger

http://geniushowto.blogspot.com/2017/01/create-homepage-for-your-blogger-blog.html

Instructions:

1.       Create first a new page which we can do so by going to the “Pages” option in the blogger dashboard. In the HTML page editor name you page “Homepage” or whatever you like and compose the content to be displayed on you blog’s homepage (e.g. sliders, slogans, goals, services, email subscriptions, featured posts, recent posts, categories, etc.). Add a Meta description for the homepage and in the right hand side page settings disable comments and finally publish you homepage. Use the “view” option for your homepage and make a note of the created URL. (e.g. /p/homepage.html)

2.       Redirect the Blog’s old homepage to new Homepage

We need to redirect the visitors from blogger’s default homepage feed to our new homepage. Go to “Settings” option in blogger dashboard and under the “Search Preferences” menu, edit the “Custom Redirects”.

In “Custom Redirects” click the “Edit” option to create a new redirect from blog’s current homepage (“/”) to blog’s new homepage URL (“/p/homepage.html”). Mark it as permanent redirect and save the redirect.

3.       Link the Blog’s new Homepage and Index page to Blog’s Navigation

Include the homepage and index page of the blog in the navigation where the new homepage will become the landing page and the blog’s index page will become the website’s blog.

Add the pages gadget to the blogger’s layout menu.

To link the homepage and blog’s index page, create a menu navigation for our blog. Go to the “Layout” option in blogger dashboard and under the header section click the “Add a Gadget” option to open the Blogger’s gadget menu in a pop-up window.

Link created homepage and your blog’s index page URL in blogger’s tab widget

In the blogger’s gadget menu scroll down to “Pages” widget and add it to your blog’s layout by clicking the plus/add sign. Upon clicking the “Pages” widget you will be redirected to “Configure Page List” where you need to untick the old “Home” option and tick the newly created homepage. To include the blog’s index page click the “Add external link” option and save the opened pop-up with “/index.html” as your site’s Blog. This will add cool menu navigation to you customized new blogger blog.