To get started with a new site click on the "use this template" button in the header of any template, or browse our gallery for more templates at sites.google.com.
Posted by: Scott Johnston, Product Manager, Google Sites
To get started with a new site click on the "use this template" button in the header of any template, or browse our gallery for more templates at sites.google.com.
Posted by: Scott Johnston, Product Manager, Google Sites
Just in time for the holidays, we've added three new additions to Google Sites. First, we've integrated Google Sites with the Google Translate element. Now, visitors to your Google Site with a different language setting than your site can hit the translate button on the bottom right of the page to translate the whole site to the language of their choice. Try it out for yourself.
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Second, PDFs attached to pages and file cabinets can now be previewed in the Google Docs viewer. As we've mentioned before here and here, the Google Docs viewer is a good alternative to downloading a file.
Lastly, you can set a default location for a page template. This makes it simpler for you to keep the pages of your site organized. For example, if you have a recipe template in your family site, set /recipes/ as default location for pages created from that template so all your recipes show up together within your site.
We hope you enjoy these new additions to Google Sites.
Posted by: Russ Vrolyk, Software Engineer, Google Sites
Just in time for the holidays, we've added three new additions to Google Sites. First, we've integrated Google Sites with the Google Translate element. Now, visitors to your Google Site with a different language setting than your site can hit the translate button on the bottom right of the page to translate the whole site to the language of their choice. Try it out for yourself.
Before:
After:
Second, PDFs attached to pages and file cabinets can now be previewed in the Google Docs viewer. As we've mentioned before here and here, the Google Docs viewer is a good alternative to downloading a file.
Lastly, you can set a default location for a page template. This makes it simpler for you to keep the pages of your site organized. For example, if you have a recipe template in your family site, set /recipes/ as default location for pages created from that template so all your recipes show up together within your site.
We hope you enjoy these new additions to Google Sites.
Posted by: Russ Vrolyk, Software Engineer, Google Sites
Google Sites makes creating and sharing a website easy. It is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website. Today, we’re happy to simplify the site creation process even further with the introduction of the Google Sites template gallery. When you select a template from the new Sites template gallery, your new site will come setup with custom page layouts, links for navigating to each page, embedded gadgets, themes and much more.
The public template gallery is open for anyone to contribute templates, and we look forward to seeing what you create and submit. Do you have a great wedding site that you think other couples would use or have you built a club website that everyone loves? Follow these steps to submit your template to the gallery:
Open up the site you want to add to the gallery. Note: the site must be published and you must be an owner to submit the site.
Select ‘More actions’, ‘Manage site,’ ‘General’, and chose ‘Publish this site as a template.’
Choose a template name, a category, enter a description and click ‘Submit template.’
Your site template will appear in the gallery for everyone to see within hours.
We started the gallery with some initial templates, which cover a variety of uses. For example, if you're building a site for your club or association, you can get started with this template:
Or, if you're a teacher, try out the classroom template:
If you're a restaurant looking to create a website, there are restaurant templates available:
You can also use Google Sites at work to manage projects internally. Take a look at our project wiki template:
There are also pre-built templates designed specifically for families, weddings, schools, internal profiles, churches, and much more. To see all the available templates, choose "Browse the gallery for more" when creating a new Google Site. For an overview of Google Sites templates, check out this video:
Google Sites makes creating and sharing a website easy. It is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website. Today, we’re happy to simplify the site creation process even further with the introduction of the Google Sites template gallery. When you select a template from the new Sites template gallery, your new site will come setup with custom page layouts, links for navigating to each page, embedded gadgets, themes and much more.
The public template gallery is open for anyone to contribute templates, and we look forward to seeing what you create and submit. Do you have a great wedding site that you think other couples would use or have you built a club website that everyone loves? Follow these steps to submit your template to the gallery:
Open up the site you want to add to the gallery. Note: the site must be published and you must be an owner to submit the site.
Select ‘More actions’, ‘Manage site,’ ‘General’, and chose ‘Publish this site as a template.’
Choose a template name, a category, enter a description and click ‘Submit template.’
Your site template will appear in the gallery for everyone to see within hours.
We started the gallery with some initial templates, which cover a variety of uses. For example, if you're building a site for your club or association, you can get started with this template:
Or, if you're a teacher, try out the classroom template:
If you're a restaurant looking to create a website, there are restaurant templates available:
You can also use Google Sites at work to manage projects internally. Take a look at our project wiki template:
There are also pre-built templates designed specifically for families, weddings, schools, internal profiles, churches, and much more. To see all the available templates, choose "Browse the gallery for more" when creating a new Google Site. For an overview of Google Sites templates, check out this video:
Every year families come together from all over to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. To some people, Thanksgiving brings to mind images of family gathering around a turkey dinner and catching up over heaping servings of pumpkin pie. Others, especially the hosts and hostesses out there, worry about the stress of cooking for 20 people, getting stuck in traffic, picking up relatives from the airport and figuring out where everyone will sleep. If you fall into the second group, why not use Google Docs and Sites to help organize your Thanksgiving chaos this year?
A Google Site is a great way to let everyone know what to bring, provide directions, organize flight arrival times and even plan some post-Thanksgiving events, like football marathons or a little exercise to burn off those pumpkin pie calories.
Use a list page to split up the cooking and show your family what meals they need to prepare.
You can also embed a Google spreadsheet to keep track of everyone's arrival times and get volunteers to pick people up from the airport. You can even insert a flight arrival time gadget so you can avoid circling the airport by making sure flights aren't delayed. To find this gadget, choose 'More gadgets' from the 'Insert' menu and then search for "flight."
Adding announcements to your site will help family members get up to date information. You can display the announcements on the front page of your site, or your family can subscribe to RSS feeds so they get updates whenever there is a new announcement.
Hopefully Sites and Docs make planning your Thanksgiving a little easier this year. Happy Thanksgiving from everyone on the Google Docs and Sites teams.
Posted by: Ashley Chandler, Sites and Docs User Operations
One of the benefits of Google Apps is the extensibility and openness of the platform. Today we're pleased to advance that story by introducing a new API for Google Sites in Labs.
The use cases are plentiful for businesses:
Update Google Sites from 3rd party applications – e.g. your sales team's Google Sites pages can update automatically when new leads are added to your CRM system.
Migrate files and content from workspace applications like Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Notes to Google Sites.
Export Google Sites pages, edit them offline, and re-import the updated content.
Export your sites, including every page revision, for backup.
Easily monitor changes across your important internal and public sites, all from a single gadget.
Push new content like changes to employee policies or a new corporate logo to any site on your domain, even sites created by individual employees.
Best of all, while this API is brand new, application developers will find it rather familiar – it is, after all, a Google Data API. And like our 16 other Google Data APIs, this one comes with all the standard protocol support around authentication and querying that you'd expect. You'll find everything you need to get started on the Google Code pages, including links to documentation and sample applications.
For those of you interested in applications already built on top of this API, be sure to look at:
The open source import/export project on Google Code that lets you export entire sites as static HTML, maintaining the structure and page hierarchy.
SharePoint Move for Google Apps, a product developed by LTech for migrating data and content from Microsoft SharePoint to Google Sites.
We're looking forward to your feedback! Watch this space for updates to the API in the coming months.
Anil Sabharwal, Google Enterprise team Get timely updates on new features in Google Apps by subscribing to our RSS feed or email alerts.
We would like to welcome Hebrew and Arabic speakers to Google Sites. With the addition of Hebrew and Arabic, Google Sites now supports a total of 40 languages. As a reminder, site owners can change the site language using More actions -> Manage site -> General. Site collaborators can change the interface language via the user settings page available from the My sites list. If no language is set, we use the browser language setting.
