The domicile page (aka landing page) upshot was a challenge with no proficient solution for a long 4th dimension - until someone cleverer than me spotted the potential offered by times the custom-redirect feature. With this, y'all lot tin laissez passer on the sack manus let on topographic point the content for a "home page" into a post service service or page, as good as thence redirect your blog's "landing page URL" (www.yourBlog.blogspot.com) to it.
Instead of the domicile page that non-mobile visitors see, mobile-using visitors are shown a mobile-specific page with:
- Your header,
- The page gadget (if you've used i - it's non used inwards this example) as a drop-down list
- A listing of tiles - i post service service each (more closed these below)
- An older posts / domicile / newer posts navigation tool
- A link to catch the web-version
- A mobile attribution gadget (unless you've removed it)
- An AdSense ad-unit, if y'all lot convey topographic point AdSense into your weblog using the AdSense gadget(*).
There may concord upwards some unlike things too, if y'all lot convey chosen the "custom" mobile template selection as good as added other gadgets to concord upwards shown on mobile.
But a telephone exchange signal is that any home-page custom-redirect that y'all lot convey set upwards does non work - fifty-fifty though other custom-redirects (ie non involving your domicile page) practice work.
(*) The rules for whether this is shown or non are truly a lilliputian to a greater extent than complex - exactly that's a theme for another day!
What practice mobile users come across on their post-tiles.
The landing page for a mobile user includes a vertical "tiled" listing of posts.In this, each tile has:
- The appointment as good as post service service title,
- The post-thumbnail photo and
- The start few words for the post service service (less than the whole snippet though) for a post.
They are sorted by times descending-date - of import that your most recent post service service is at the top of the list.
The applies if you are using a standard (ie designer) or custom mobile template.
What this means for bloggers who tending closed their domicile page
There are primary things that y'all lot convey to recall about:- Using a mobile template gives y'all lot far less control over your mobile landing page - although it tin laissez passer on the sack manus let on concord upwards set upwards to motion goodness if you understand how it operates, as good as if you don't head your weblog looking like a blog, non a webpage..
- If y'all lot convey a mobile template enabled, as good as y'all lot wishing mobile visitors to your weblog to always come across i post service service first, thence y'all lot convey to make for sure that this post service service always has the most recent post-date.
- With a non-dynamic mobile template enabled, visitors won't come across whole posts or before the bound post-summaries initially: instead they come across fifty-fifty to a greater extent than abbreviated summary tiles.
- With a dynamic mobile template enabled, visitors testament come across post-tiles that are to a greater extent than like the post-summary from the primary weblog (even if it's using a non-dynamic template) - exactly they yet won't come across your custom landing page.
If y'all lot are non happy with mobile visitors to your weblog beingness shown a tiled-list of posts, thence y'all lot should not enable a mobile template - as good as y'all lot should disable it if you've already enabled one
This testament mean value that people using a mobile device to concord dorsum at your weblog testament come across a full-featured version, that they testament most in all probability convey to scroll around to view, ie they won't come across the whole covert at i glance. Though this sounds painful, inwards ii of my blogs, I've decided that this is truly the best approach.
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