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Google Sites Overview




Google Sites is a free, powerful and easy way to create sites. If you just have a Google account or a Gmail account, you can create your site. No HTML required. Creating a site is as easy as editing a document. You can upload files, create forms easily and insert videos, documents, calendars, spreadsheets, pdf file, photo slide shows etc in your site.

Permission settings let you designate owners, collaborators and viewers for your site. You can make your Google Sites available to just a few people, your entire organization, or the world. You can work on your site alone or can share your site with your family, friends, co-workers etc to work together. You decide who can modify or add pages to your site. Your site can be private so only you and your allowed person(s) can visit your site or you can make your site public so every one can see your site. You can call peoples around the world for work together on the running project. Its very simple as it was never before.
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File uploading in Google Sites

Use File Cabinet to upload files up to 10MB in size. Google Sites is integrated with other Google products to use them in your Google Sites site. Many customization options let you give your Google Site your own look and feel.

Changing colors in Google Sites

Google allows the customization of almost all of the colors within a site. From background to text and borders and columns, you can choose almost any color of the rainbow with their easy-to-use color chooser.

Mapping domains in Google Sites

Now that you've setup a simple test site, why not map a full domain to it? If we wanted, we could move siteshelp.com over to Google and allow people to view my site there instead of https://sites.google.com/a/siteshelp.com/www/ .  Seems simpler, right!!!

Mapping sub domains in Google Sites

Sub domains are the ability to put something before the top level domain. "www" in www.siteshelp.com is a subdomain and that could be anything we want.  So if you have a few internal company sites that you'd like setup, just choose a different sub domain to keep the links short and people coming back.

Sharing Permissions in Google Sites

As we stated before, Google allows you to choose who can view and edit your pages.  If it's an internal site, let your whole team modify the page but if it's client facing, maybe external text is better left for the PR people.

Using Google Calendars in Google Sites

So you've got your site setup and now you want to share your internal company events?  No problem with Google Sites.  Setup a Google Calendar, list the events you want and then pop it right into your site.  No coding, just like a simple link copy and paste.

Contact forms in Google Sites using Google Docs

Google Forms (a separate area in Google Docs) can allow you to setup a survey or a contact form in under 5 minutes.  These can then be placed onto your Google Site with a few clicks of the mouse or almost anywhere else on the web with a simple copy and paste.

Integrated search engine in Google Sites

Search with Google feature in Google Sites can search across Google Sites pages and content using powerful Google search technology. Now you will able to find specific pages and documents instantly as the same way you would on Google.com.

So we can say Google Sites is simple enough for a family, education website and powerful enough for a company intranet.



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Q. How does Google Sites can save money of my web hosting?
A. Google Sites is free tool from Google for Google account holders and for Google Apps users, so if you sign up, you can get free tool for your website.




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