Like a book or magazine reading, of course, the list of contents is very important for readers to simplify finding the parts of the contents of a book or magazine that will be in reading. So it is with a blog, if the availability of tables of contents will certainly make it easier for visitors to find articles of posts that probably are looking for these visitors is available or not.
For my friend who has a blog and want to list the contents of the blog, here I will share the experience. The steps are as follows:
First Steps
1. Log in to http://blogger.com with ID mate.
2. Click the Layouts in dashboar menu
3. Click Edit HTML
4. Do not forget to check the Expand Widget Templates
5. Backup first template that my friend had, click on Download Full Template
6. After that look for the code below:
<b:include data='post' name='post'/>
7. Delete and replace with the code below:
<b:if cond='data:blog.homepageUrl != data:blog.url'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'>
<div style="padding:6px 0 6px 5px;border-right:1px solid #ccc;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;margin-bottom:2px;background:#EAE9E9;color:#406A0E;">
<data:post.title/></div></a>
<b:else/>
<b:include data='post' name='post'/>
</b:if>
<b:else/>
<b:include data='post' name='post'/>
</b:if>
8. If you already click Save Template
Step Two
1. In dashboard menu, click the Layout
2. Click Add Gadgets / Widgets
3. Click HTML / JavaScript
4. Enter the code below:
<a href="http://papatitionline.blogspot.com/search?max-results=300">Table of Contents»</a>
Description:
Change the color green with your blog url and the number 300 represents the number of posts that will be shown in the Table of Contents Blog, that number may be increased or reduced as expected.
5. When finished, click Save and please see the results.
Hopefully Helpful.
