Traditionally, setting up a web site is a lot of work. You have to setup the infrastructure of the website, and you have to provide content for your readers to view. Setting up a blog is a lot easier, but a blog gives you the structure of an online journal, and will include details which may distract your readers.
Sometimes, you want to take a blog, and setup a web site. This is easier than it would seem, if you make a list of the individual tasks.
Sometimes, you want to take a blog, and setup a web site. This is easier than it would seem, if you make a list of the individual tasks.
- In Settings - Formatting, set Main Page size to "Show 1 Post".
- In the Blog Posts gadget, disable date, timestamp, and other options that make a blog post look like a blog post. Use your judgment here - this is your web site.
- Make a post for the home page. Publish it normally, then edit it and change the post date, to fall far in the future, and above any other posts.
- Publish additional posts, which will be the other pages in the web site. The "Create" link in Post Editor, and the "New Post" link in the dashboard and navbar, are where you start this process. This is the essential step in getting a reputation for your blog or web site - post something for your readers to read.
- Link all of your posts in various ways. Here, you use your imagination.
- Have images and text in the posts, and add hyperlinks in the images and text.
- Setup a linklist, as an index, in the sidebar.
- Assign labels to the posts, and have a Labels index in the sidebar. If you use labels, you don't have to make it obvious.
- Setup a section index - a menu bar in the page header.
- Combine the above concepts. A section index, linked to various labels, lets you combine posts dynamically, in ways that you can't do with a plain old web site. You could even put images in the section index, with links in the images.
- And, you now have a web site. But you'll never be done, because you have a web site that uses Blogger One Button Publishing, and you'll always find something to work on. I know that I do. This post isn't done, nor will it ever be done.
