You might have seen sites which show a message that “Our site is in
Maintenance mode, please try accessing later”. Many popular site uses
maintenance mode when they are going through a monthly maintenance check
or improvising site experience because nobody likes to land on a page
that is either broken or no longer reachable. in other sense, new
websites often use it as coming soon page allowing users to sign up to
be notified when site is ready for launch. In this article, we will show
you how to put your blogger site on maintenance mode.
First thing you need to do is to
download Soonex – Maintenance mode template. Since, you are putting your site on Maintenance mode so be sure to
take a backup of your existing template. Now
upload the template to your blogger site. After uploading the, you need to go to Blogger >> Layout >> to configure the template.
This template setting is divided into three different sections i.e.
tabs, first one is home, second is about and third is contact.
Adding Welcome Note:
Soonex allows you to create beautiful pages to provide improved user
experience. The first option is of “Welcome Note” that you’ll find in
the Layout area on blogger dashboard. To customize press the “Edit”
link and input the description which you want to display on your site,
weather your site is on maintenance mode or you are about to launch a
new site.
Once you’re done writing it, press “Save” button to store the changes you made to the template.
Adding Email Subscription:
Soonex also allows you to add a subscription widget from which users can
subscribe to your feeds and can also receive notification when your
site goes live again. To customize, go to “Email Subscription” and
press the “Edit” link. Now input the username of your feed (Example
feeds.feedburner.com/myblogtools, here myblogtools is the username).
Once you are done with adding the username, press “Save button.
Adding Countdown:
If you are creating a coming soon page, or you would like to display a
accurate time to your users when your site will be up, then scroll down
to "Countdown Settings" and press “Edit” link. Now enter the time and
date of the countdown in this format 2014/10/15 12:00:00.
However, If you don’t want to display the countdown widget then simply
leave the text area blank or input “empty” in the text area and press
“Save” button to store the changes.
Adding About us:
You can also add information about your site. Go to “About The Company”
and press “Edit” link. Now in the text, insert the information you
would like to display on about tab. Once you’re done press “Save” to
store the changes.
We hope this article would help you in creating a powerful under
maintenance or coming soon page for your blogger site. Have you ever
used a maintenance page on your site, if yes feel free to share your
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