Blinging your Site

Using the Inbuilt Themes

The easiest and quickest way to change the look of your site is to use the inbuilt themes that Google have included.

First, you click on the more button on the top right of your site, then choose the "Manage site" option.

Down the left hand side of this screen is a list of options. You need the last one, "Themes".

The screen you will see next is a selection of different colours and themes.

You can use the preview button to see what they would look like on your site.

When you are happy, click the save button.

The theme used on this site is "Crystal Panel".

Making you own Site Header

For this, you will be using the following online tools :-

Colour Lovers

Pic Monkey

What is a Visually Appealing Site?

Putting a Favicon on your Site

Favicon Generator

Make sure your file name is favicon.ico

Finding an icon for your Favicon

Page Flow on a Google Site

Using ColorPick Eyedropper Chrome Extension and PicMonkey to Enhance Your Site

Matching the Height of your Site Header to the Height of your Header Image

Using Google Drawing to make a Google Site Header

Useful Links

RGB Colour Codes