If you are here at blogspot (blogger.com) it will be easier because I can explain that a litte. If you are clicking to create a new page to the left you see a little pencil just below your title line.
to the right of that pencil is a little upside down triangle. If you click on that upside down little triangle it will give you two choices. Likely you are presently in {Compose) mode for people who don't know how to program or people like me who prefer to spend 90% or more less time composing their work. An Encoder is wonderful in this way because you never have to do HTML at all.
However, then a links page you need to create the HTML page by going to the little black and white pencil (or pen) you see and click the upside down triangle which gives you two choice. Choose the top one that says HTML View.
Now transcribe through typing on this page these characters in the exact same order which is HTML programming for creating a page in HTML into the HTML page.
Now here is the code not in a HTML format because you aren't in an HTML page right now you are in a display page which is called here at Blogspot or Blogger.com "Compose" instead. So, I'm giving you the code in a form it won't be executed right now. So, you need to take this code if you want to create a LINKS page in HTML something like the one you see here often at this site and copy these characters manually into an HTML page which you get by looking at the little pencil or pen to the left just under your title line and clicking on it and then choosing HTML View.
However, remember to switch back to compose if you don't normally build computer programs or you will be lost in the HTML mode forever. YOU MUST switch it back to compose and then it will stay there from then on until you switch it into HTML and then when you are done be sure to switch back to Compose once again so you know what is going on.
HERE IS THE CODE YOU HAVE TO TRANSCRIBE to create a Links page in HTML
<p> </p>
<a href="link">text</a>
All you have to do is to do this once manually and then you will have the basic code in HTML page in HTML format.
However, you can duplicate it by going up to your edit function (so you don't have to keep typing it over and over and over again to where it says "Edit" at the top of your browser. I use Firefox but you might use something else but usually what is contained in the Edit drop down is pretty much the same.
So, to duplicate your code above after putting it into an HTML page in an HTML mode is to take your mouse and put a blue or purple line through all of it. Then you go up to Edit and say "Copy" then you go to the next one after moving your cursor down to where you want the next grouping and say. Paste and the copy of the HREF programming will duplicate automatically completely once. So, now you have 2 and you can do the same thing and then you have 4 and then you can do the same thing and then you have 8. With 8 you can usually fill your whole page (as much as you want) with HREF LInks programming blanks.
However, after programming since 1966 in various different languages i find it much easier when I put each line vertically like I do simply because as a human being it is easier and more orderly to think about it like this because most programs are just lines of code that go on forever and because of this hard to decipher what the heck is actually going on. So, as. human being I try to organize things so they are actually useful to me and not just to a computer reducing everything to zeros and ones below the programming any way it can.
Now I need to tell you how to actually use the page you have created in HTML View.
Where it says "Text" this is your title of your link that can be literally anything but you are limited to a certain amount of Characters doing this which you will find out if you try to make your title too long.
Then where is says "Link" that is your URL. If you don't know what a URL is it might be at the top of your page if you have your computer set up like mine where I can still see the URL.
For example, at the top of this page it saw in URL www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit (etc. etc. etc.)
But, if you are going to create a links page you must have this URL exact or it won't be able to find the page you are referencing in your link.
After you fill all the "text" sites and replace them with your title and and do the same with your URL site
you can publish your page after you title the page itself at the top. I usually use "Most read articles of the last 7 days" as of a specific Date. That is what I do but of course you can title your page anything you want to also.
The thing that is important is that this is as exact as any math problem you might encounter in life so unless every character is in the perfect order it's not going to work when you publish it. The biggest one the most like math problems is the URL. IF this isn't exact the computer will never be able to find the page you want to link it to anywhere. this is just how it really is in the computer world of programming. It's like a math problem more than anything else when you program a computer to do anything.
So, when you are done programming test your links page to see if it works right which it may or may not.
This in the language I was taught in the 1960s learning to program in COBOL and Fortran is called debugging which can be very upsetting especially then before random Access Memory was either invented or available to the general public because it was only used by NASA for space flights then and stuff like that. There also might be debugging tools you can access through your school or university or business or wherever too.
If you think of your LINK (URL) as being the phone number of the page you want to link, without this link being perfect you can never dial the right number to get there as in a phone call. It doesn't matter if it is only one character off that is enough for you never to get through on that phone call. So, the title is much less important than the LINK(URL) for this reason. Because no computer on earth can find this page unless the URL is perfect in it's form.
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