Changing Blogger's Default Homepage

The very first tutorial published in this blog was a walkthrough on how you can set-up a welcome screen in your blog, so that you won't be presented with Blogger's default homepage. I thought it's about time to update the old walkthrough, as an easier way to set-up a custom landing page is now available to us. Basically, this walkthrough is gonna teach you how you can set a custom page to be the first page that your readers will be seeing upon visiting your blog (from hereon referred to as 'new landing page'). This can be useful if you want to include some sort of welcome screen, content warning, or whatever tickles your fancy. And yes, it works on non-dynamic as well as dynamic view templates!

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Note: In the walkthrough below, I will change my default landing page to a custom welcome screen. It is not a must to use a static page as your custom landing page. You can use any page in your blog for this purpose.
Step 1:

It is important that you have a Pages gadget in your blog so that you readers can navigate from your new landing page to your blog posts. If you don't already have one, add it by going to Dashboard - Pages - Show pages as - Top tabs.