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Use Sites to :

• Create Company website.
• Create Mobile Responsive cv
• Share info on a secure company intranet.
• Create Online Training center website for work team.
• Collaborate on a team project.
• Stay connected with family members.
• Plan club meetings and activities

Google Sites is best understood as a way to build collaborative websites and intranets that integrate Google Apps, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Maps, Forms and more.

Google Sites has lots of collaboration tools built-in— such as permissions and collaborative documents. This makes it a natural intranet builder. To take advantage of this your organization should already use Google Apps. 

A significantly updated and streamlined version of Google Sites goes live for G Suite customers in November 2016. 

Some things about Google Sites haven't changed. Sites is still a tool to create a basic website. It remains one of the core G Suite apps. 

You can still collaborate with other people — editors you choose — to make your site. And you can still connect your site to Google Analytics to understand how visitors navigate pages on your Site.
Here are five things about the more modern, contemporary-looking tool.



Screenshot of Google Sites preview mode shown in tablet and phone formats

With the late 2016 update, your Google Sites layout now reformats for a desktop, tablet, or phone screen.

1. You can create web pages that display nicely on any device.

Google made one choice for you: a one-column, no-sidebar design. Additionally, you can choose between two navigation menu locations (either a top menu or a side menu that appears when you select a three-line menu icon) and among three page header types (a large banner, banner, or title-only).



Screenshot of menu options to add content to a Google Site

Insert content from Google Drive — and other sources — into your site.


2. You can insert content from Google Drive and other apps

As you would expect, you can add, edit, and format text and insert, crop, and resize images on your site.

More important, you can insert content from Google Drive into your site. Insert any of your Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Charts, Videos, or Images from Google Drive into a section of your site. And you can still insert Google Calendars, Maps, and YouTube videos, too. All of these show a preview of the file, with the full content viewable after a visitor selects the file.



3. You can embed some external content

Embed some external content Sites will add an image, a title, and a description. You can choose to display or hide any of these. In my tests, Sites added content for most posts and articles successfully. When an embed doesn't work, Sites shows a link to the content. For a Tweet, Google Sites shows a link, since neither a direct link nor an embed code to a Tweet otherwise works.



Screenshot of section position and background color controls.
Adjust section backgrounds — or move sections around — with controls that display when you need them.

4. You can customize and move content sections

You can move content sections up or down your page: Select the two lines of five dots, then move the section around. Within a content section, you can resize content frames to display more (or less) of a Google Doc, for example, or to center an image or section of text. Sites provides some smartly arranged gridlines and snaps your content borders to those lines — this helps your site maintain a visually coherent layout.

You can customize the background of a content section to draw visual attention to an area. You can choose a basic white, gray, or black background or add an image. After you add a background image to a section, Sites adjusts the image to improve the visibility of your content. (You can turn this auto-adjustment off, if you prefer.)



Screenshot of Google Sites publishing visibility settings
Share your site with the people in your organization or with the world.


5. You can publish your site to your organization or to the world

As of early November 2016, Sites offers two sharing settings when you publish. You can choose to make your site available to everyone in your organization or publish it for anyone to see. That's a significant change from the page-level permissions available in classic Google Sites. (Page-level permissions allowed you to control access to specific site pages but also produced complicated access controls.)

Google Sites For Virtual Training Hub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFmb7igJw8

Need to onboard employees quickly and across multiple offices? The Transformation Gallery (https://goo.gl/RUXkx0) is here to help. You can check out the specific card on this process here: https://goo.gl/oqGycT

To train people based in different locations, create a one-stop training hub using Google Sites. Store all onboarding tasks, organization policies, training videos, and other documents in Drive. Then, embed the files in the training website to create a self-service training portal and share it with all new employees.

Within Forms, you can also have employees or volunteers upload their documents. For this example, Drea Delivers drivers are able to upload a photo of their license, insurance card, and a photo of their vehicle.

Have ideas for the Transformation Gallery? Share them here: https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/...

The verdict

After spending some time with Sites during the beta period, I think it offers an elegant way to publish text, images, and content from Google Drive and other Google sources to the web. If you use G Suite, the new Google Sites is one of the fastest — and simplest — ways to build a website at work.



Google Sites Information
Google Sites is a structured wiki- and Web page-creation tool offered by Google as part of the G Suite productivity suite. The goal of Google Sites is for anyone to be able to create a team-oriented site where multiple people can collaborate and share files.

History

Google Sites started out as JotSpot, the name and sole product of a software company that offered enterprise social software. It was targeted mainly at small-sized and medium-sized businesses. The company was founded by Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer, co-founders of Excite.

In February 2006, JotSpot was named part of Business 2.0, "Next Net 25", and in May 2006, it was honored as one of InfoWorld's "15 Start-ups to Watch". In October 2006, JotSpot was acquired by Google. Google announced a prolonged data transition of webpages created using Google Page Creator (also known as "Google Pages") to Google Sites servers in 2007. On February 28, 2008, Google Sites was unveiled using the JotSpot technology. The service was free, but users needed a domain name, which Google offered for $10. However, as of May 21, 2008, Google Sites became available for free, separately from Google Apps, and without the need for a domain.

In June 2016, Google introduced a complete rebuild of the Google Sites platform.[7] However, Google Spaces was shut down on April 17th, 2017

Features

Custom Domain Name Mapping – Owners of both personal Google accounts and Google Apps for Business accounts are allowed to map their Google Site to a custom domain name. One must own the domain and have access to change the CNAME records.

Multi-tier Permissions and Accessibility – There are three levels of permissions within Google Sites: Owner, Editor and Viewer. Owners have full permissions to modify design and content of the entire Google Site, whereas editors cannot change the design of the site. Viewers can only view the site and are not permitted to make any changes to text or otherwise.

Extension

Gadgets – XML modules that can be embedded in a Site and may contain custom CSS and JavaScript. Gadgets achieve two purposes:

Separation or Abstraction – the custom code can be abstracted to a distinct file

Reuse – the same gadget can be reused by multiple sites as it is published publicly

HTML Box – allows embedding custom HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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