How to create a Google site
World Wide Web (www) dominating every sphere of life; it has changed the world completely we lives in past of couple of years; decades back shelter, cloths and foods were basic needs of human beings, but now with the advancement of technology one more name added to the basic needs of most of the people and it’s a web address. A web address has significant importance even if you are a high school student, small size business or any other entity who need to be known by your peer group simply for the sake of knowing or business expansion; and for big businesses having a website is ultimate without which they can’t think of survival.
Owing a web address comes with a price, as when you need a web address of your own, you need to register it first, called domain name registration, then you require server space or hosting service to upload your data personal or professional which could be accessed by your peer group or public through world wide web. At times you may even require services of expert web designer and programmer to make and maintain your site. So doing all this and making web presence as hobby or for gain is quite expensive.
For many of you who want to save couple of bucks in your pocket free apps like Google sites offer great solutions. Google sites can be used as a free web tool to create a website; also the app is available for businesses which is a paid service and can be tried first 3 months for free. Google sites work very much similar to MS Share Point wherein you can create as many WebPages as you wish. Also as administrator you can control who can edit your Google Website page and who cannot.
When writing a website using Google Apps aka Google sites, there is no installation required, you can do it directly in preferred browser. You can write web pages online, can save them as draft and can publish them any moment you wish. Also editing a web page in Google sites is very much easy similar to blogger or word press weblog. Small businesses who wish to make online presence can benefit immensely from Google Websites Services. Creating a website in Google Sites is cost effective and small businesses can harness the power of Google aka World Wide Web making a Google Website. This is also very much beneficial tool for researchers who wish to share research papers among peer groups across the world.
To create website in Google Sites go to http://sites.google.com/ Sure you need a Google account to access the Google sites services. If you already have Gmail account that will work or you can create a new account for making a Google Site other than your preferred Gmail account. Once you log in to Google Site dashboard, look for create button in left of your browser window, click create and you will be greeted by couple of templates choose one according to your needs, for example, if you are going to announce your wedding through online space choose wedding template, however, you also can choose your own template if you wish so.
Now Scroll Down, name your site, this shall be your site url; suppose you are John Peter creating your personal website, writing in site name section as john-peter will display url in browser window as https://sites.google.com/site/john-peter Select a suitable theme for your website, write description of your site in description window, for example you are model, lives in Alaska, write John Peter a Professional Model lives in Alaska; a suitable description will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing Ask Etc to find your Google Website in search for a given search query; for example, “models near Alaska”. Choose your privacy setting, who can view your Google Site, choose if your site contains adult content, enter the security code and hit Create Site button and you are done. Now you are all ready to deploy web pages using Google Sites.
