Google Sites

MICHAEL ANGELO M. AGUILAR

Teacher II
Aparri School of Arts and Trades
 What is Google Sites
• Google Sites is a FREE website
building platform from Google.
• It is only available as a web
application.

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 A Brief Intro to Google Sites
• Google Sites comes in the form of an app that's part
of Google's G Suite.

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 A Brief Intro to Google Sites
• It was introduced in February 2008
• In June 2016, Google introduced a complete rebuild
of the Google Sites platform, named the New Google
Sites

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 New Google Sites Features
• Responsive design of the new themes.
• Domain name mapping
• Drag and drop editing
• Levels of permissions ("owner", "editor", and
"viewer").
• Support for embedding HTML and JavaScript.
• Automatic multi-level menus.

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 New Google Sites Features
• Integration with Google Drive, Google Maps and
more.
• Design and edit a website layout.
• Embed images, logos, documents, or videos.

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 What Google Sites Allows You to Do
• Google Sites allows you to create a website without
having to know how to code it yourself.
• Google Sites has site builder features that make it
easy and intuitive to design your site the way you
want.
• You can add calendars, maps, spreadsheets,
presentations and more to make your site more
functional.

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 Getting Started

Log in to your
Google
Account

You may also enter https://sites.google.com

directly in your web browser.
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 1

1. Click Google
Apps. Then,
2. Locate Sites
in the list of
Apps. 2

Note: You may click if you can not locate Sites

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Click “Blank” to create a new site.
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Undo and Redo

Undo or Redo
Last Action

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 Preview

Previewing Large
Phone
a site allows Screen

you to see
the site as a Tablet

viewer not as
an editor.

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 Copy Link

Copy Published
site link

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 Share with others

Used to add
collaborators
and viewers of
the website

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 Settings

Shows how to
change site’s
general settings in
navigation, brand
images, viewer
Tools, Analytics and
Announcement
Banner

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 Publish Button

When you’re
ready, you can
publish your
site only to your
organization or
to the world.

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Use Insert menu
to add content
to your site

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Insert Menu

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Adds additional
web page in the
site

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 Themes are
group of settings
that create the
overall design of
the site.

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 Content
Area

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Are you
Ready?

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Thank you!