The Google Sites is a very simple but effective website builder created, developed, maintained and owned by Google.
You don’t need any technical expertise to build a website with Google. The user-friendly drag-and-drop tool enables you to create and maintain a website on your own.
Everyone needs a website to create a unique virtual identity. However, creating and maintaining a presentable website becomes overwhelming with the various website builders out there. Here are a few of the reasons of using Google sites.
Easily use our drag-and-drop interface, perfect for those who aren't tech-savvy. With easy template customization, even beginners can easily create, edit a website, and add text images, and YouTube videos,Google slides,Google forms and more.
Save recurring expenses with free hosting and free domain, provided by Google sites eliminating the need for yearly maintenance fees. You can also use your custom domain with yourdomain.com.
Easily incorporate images and files from various Google tools into your website. Google website builder seamlessly integrates with tools like Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Forms, slides, Google docs, sheets, Google maps.
Easily make changes to your website, such as adding or removing pages, sections, text, images, headers, footers, CTA buttons, products, and services in just a few minutes. It makes you convinenient to give festival offers to your audiences, add or remove products and services efficiently on your own. No dependency on developer.
Rest easy knowing your website is secure on the Google platform - no need to worry about hackers.
Autosave feature helps you to keep your website assets safe. Your site backup always remains safe & secure in Your Google drive.You can rest assured with Google.
You can give access for your website created with our Google sites templates to other users, and enable them to make changes in your website. Thus, your site becomes a handy business tool for you, and serves more effectively for effective teamwork.
Don't worry about hiring a web developer and spending extra money! With Google sites easy website editing feature, you have full control over making changes whenever you want. You or your team can easily open the website file and update products, services, prices, features, add images, offer discounts, and more.
Once you hit the publish button in the top right corner of the screen, your website will go live for the world to see.
You can invite other users to edit text, images, and more on your site. You can make changes and republish at any time, or choose to unpublish with a simple dropdown option.
Just like other Google products, Google Sites allows collaborators to make edits.
You can make modifications and republish your website anytime, or unpublish it if you want, with dropdown option within the same publish button.
Similar to other Google products, Google Sites enables editors to make modifications to the website. The only thing needed is to you grant access to the concerned Google user.
Giving other people access to your Google site is limited to that single website.
Yes!! The Google platform is completely free to use with a free Google or Gmail account. Google also provides free hosting, so you don’t have to worry about renewing your hosting. A free domain is available at https://sites.google.com/view/yourdomain/. However, it is preferable to purchase and enable your own custom domain, such as yourcompany.com.
You’ll see the name of the template, as the site name. You will see it as Untitled site for new sites, blank page, as the case maybe.
Start by writing your site name, by editing it directly on the top-left, in your Google sites editor.
The site name, will enable you to find out, and access your site, within all of your own sites in Google sites or Google drive, but it will not appear in your published website.
Simply click on the header text to insert your title, sub-title, and text.
The header image and title text are already in place. You only have to replace both of them. You can use a header image from your computer. Google even provides readymade visuals for you to pick from.
Change the header size by simply changing the header type. Choose between a large banner, a cover, a banner, or just the title. You can even remove the header completely.
With a few clicks, you can have your website’s hero section ready.
You will see 3 vertical dots next to the publish button.Click over this, and choose the option,’ make a copy’. In no time, a copy of your entire website is created. Your website copy directly gets saved into your Google drive, and also appears in your Google sites folder.
You can make as many copies, as you want, but Seopearls team suggests you to make at least one copy before you go ahead to edit our website template.
So it remains as a backup of the website template with you safe in your Google drive.
With our templates, you don’t have to worry about theme, because we do provide a professional theme, that we create separately for each of our template. No action is required from your side.
Otherwise, you need to select or create or import theme, to setup, colours, fonts, text sizes, navigation setting , button colors, and more. If you are new, it’s better to use a theme provide by Google.
Simply navigate to the top-right area of the Google Sites interface and click the settings icon. From there, you can upload your business logo/ organisation logo and an eye-catching favicon that will appear in your visitors’ browser tabs. It’s an excellent technique to make your website simple to recognize.
You can create and add a call to action button using the button tool on the right sidebar.
There are a few button types obtainable, including filled, lined, and text buttons.You can customize the color, font, and link for a call-to-action. You can create both internal, as well as external links.
To can use, image carousel’ from the sidebar tools insert column, and you can upload any number of images.
You can use the setting in the image carousel. With auto start, your images will move across as a slide show.
You can also add text with captions to each image. You may enable or disble dots.
In the sidebar insert column, you can find spacer and divider tools. Simply click on the tool to enable it on your page.
While editing, you can checkout, how your website looks in desktop view, tab view, or mobile view, by clicking the preview button on the top right side.
To enable and customize footer, you need to follow the same steps that you use to add text, media, enable buttons, and other elements.
You need to click on ‘add footer’ or ‘edit footer’ at the bottom of your page and enable your website footer.
When you sign up and create a free Google account, you will have immediate access to all Google apps.
Google Website Builder makes it easy to incorporate Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Charts, Google Maps, Google Forms Calendar, and YouTube videos into your website.
Simply hover over the insert column in the right sidebar to view all of the available options in the Google Sites interface. To activate things, click on the app name, and you will be led to the relevant app files, from where you are able to enable the file on your website.
However, any file or media must have online visibility enabled so that your audience can view it on the internet.