Adding pages to your blogger site

As I am trying to develop my blog on blogger.com, I wanted to add additional static pages such as About and Contact Me which could be accessed from the top navigation bar. Although blogger.com does not provide an option for adding any static pages , I have found this nifty post from a fellow blogger Nischal Shetty on how to accomplish this using a simple yet effective 'will do' workaround.

Here are the steps to accomplish this task as provided by Nischal Shetty (his original post can be found here):

Note: Backup your template before making any changes

1. Click on “New Post” on Blogger.com
2. Write whatever you want your static page to display in this new post.
3. In the page where you write your new post, you will see a link ‘Post Options‘. Click on it.
4. Click on ‘Don’t Allow‘ . Do this only if you do not want comments on the static page.
5. You will also see that you can change the post date and time. Now this is really important. If you are going to have a static page in Blogger.com then you should see to it that it doesn’t end up in your subscribers feed readers. So, the best thing to do is to go to your very first post and see the date (by the way do you remember the day when you wrote your very first post?). Change the date of this new post to something before the date of your first post.
6. When you’re all done click the ‘Publish Post‘ button.
The steps below will guide you on how to prevent the post date from appearing in the post that you just published. (Do this only if you feel that a page shouldn’t have a post date)
1. In your blogger blog, click the Layout tab.
2. Click the Edit HTML link.
3. Click on the Expand Widget Templates checkbox.
4. Search for data:post.dateHeader
5. Before the above code, add the following : b:if cond=’data:post.allowComments
6. After data:post.dateHeader include the following: b:if
The above steps tell Blogger not to display the date for posts that have comments disabled. Since we have disabled the comments for our static page, the page won’t display the post date as well.

Once you have created a post in the above mentioned way, you can start placing links to the static page from anywhere you feel appropriate in your blog.