The title of this post could just as well be How to remove the time stamp, etc or Configure blog post. Let me explain.
This post is inspired by a blogger's question - how to remove the time stamp. I don't know his motivation for wanting to remove the time stamp, but I suspect that it is likely to be that he wants it to look more like a website than a blog. Which takes us to the question, what is the difference between a website and a blog?
Let me just quickly state what to me are some characteristics of a blog without going into controversies and then described how to remove those characteristics of a blog such as "time stamps", "posted by ....", comments, etc. so that they look more like a "website". Update: to those characteristics, perhaps I should also add Hide navbar.
Blogger with the "drag and drop" LAYOUT (New Blogger xml template) has made this very easy. All you need to do is to sign into Blogger (Dashboard), click on LAYOUT, then click EDIT in the BLOG POST section (see screen shot below):
Clicking on EDIT will then give you a window to CONFIGURE BLOG POSTS where you can just simply remove the ticks against those elements which you do not want to appear in your blog (see screen shot below):
The above screen shot showed all the elements (Day and Date, Posted by, time stamp, comments, trackbacks {links to this posts}, labels, quick edit icon) characteristic of a blog post removed (unticked). You can see an example of how such a blog will appear at Computer and Internet. I have left the other "give away's" like blog archive intact. The things you would notice missing are Day and Date accompanying the post title and the time stamps, "posted by", comments, labels, etc. at the bottom of the posts. This leave just the title and the post body.
Perhaps later I will elaborate more on the difference between a blog and a website and an illustration of what I mean.
