What is Google Sites?

Google Sites is a free tool for creating and sharing websites (see Figure 2.1). It’s located at www.google.com/sites.

Figure 2.1. Google Sites.

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To learn more about it, you can visit either of these links, which both lead to the same place.

www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html

http://tinyurl.com/gsitestour

You can watch a video that introduces Google Sites, and if you like, you can click Get Started (see Figure 2.2).

Figure 2.2. Get started with Google Sites.

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One feature that Google Sites has, just like other CMS systems, is the ability to have a custom look and feel through templates, as shown in Figure 2.3.

Figure 2.3. Examples of templates you can use with Google Sites.

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The other nice thing about Google Sites and other CMS systems is that you can share a site. You can make it private or public, and you can easily invite people to collaborate, so they can log in from wherever they are and add content to the site (see Figure 2.4).