Creating A Site From A Template
Google Sites is a free web page content creation and publishing tool from Google. To
create a site all you need is a free Google account, which you can get by creating a
gmail account. Google Sites has some templates which we can use to quickly create a
web site in minutes. Maybe not minutes, but it’s very quick and easy.
There are several advantages to creating sites with Google. The most important
advantage is that you don’t need to know any HTML, CSS, Javascript or other markup
language to develop a site. If you have basic word processing skills, then you have the
necessary skills to begin building a web site. Other advantages include the close
integration with all the other Google apps and services like Calendar, Drive and
YouTube. This means we can easily share a calendar on our site, share files from our
drive and display videos from YouTube on any of our pages. Placing these elements on
our page is as easy as inserting the item we want and Google sites takes care of
making sure it works well.
Creating A Site From A Template
In this lesson we will begin building a
basic site using one of the built in
templates. To begin, log into your Google
account. Regardless of where you login
to Google, you will find the apps launcher
in the upper right hand side.
Click on the apps launcher and look for
Google Sites. In this example I have the
Sites app close to my launch button. You
can arrange the apps in the launcher so
they are convenient to access. If you
aren’t sure how to do this, read my post
on arranging apps in the apps launcher.
Click on the sites app.
If you don’t see the sites app in the
launch bar, type “sites.google.com” in
your browser’s address bar.
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