Pages vs Labels

Let's compare Pages and Labels regarding how well they can simulate menu items.

(1) Aesthetically, Pages look more similar to menu items than Labels.

When you click on a Label, the text goes up to the upper half of the box. For example, if you select the "Mexican" label, the label list looks like this:



When you click on a Page, the background color changes. For example, if you select the "Blogger (Blogspot) Tips" page, the page list looks like this:


The user will not feel there is a difference between the page list and a menu. But labels behave quite differently.

(2) You can configure the text color, background color, and the selected background color of Pages through the Blogger (Blogspot) wysiwyg develop environment. You can configure the background colors of the page list to be different from the background color of the entire page, so the page list forms a visible horizontal bar across the entire Web page. This makes the user feel that they are just dealing with menu items.

You cannot configure the text color, background color, and the selected background color of Labels through the Blogger (Blogspot) wysiwyg develop environment  You can only change them by changing the code.

(3) If you use the Labels approach to simulate a menu, when a blog is initially displayed, all the blog posts regarding all different topics appear together. Only when the user clicks on one of the labels, the blog posts are filtered.

With the Pages approach, the blog posts regarding different topics will never appear together.

Conclusion: The Pages approach is better than the Labels approach in simulating menus.

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