Rich Media Options for a Site

Rich media options for a site

Google Sites is integrated with other Google products, so you can easily insert videos, docs, spreadsheets, presentations, photo slide shows, maps, and calendars directly onto your Google Sites pages.

You can also include other rich media in the form of gadgets. Gadgets are lightweight applications written in HTML and JavaScript. They are essentially little pieces of code for your site that have been created by others for your use.

Gadgets powered by Google are miniature objects made by Google users like you that offer cool and dynamic content that can be placed on any page on the web.

Gadgets might come in handy when you're at work (to-do list, currency converter, calendar), at school (calculator, Wikipedia, translation tool), or just passing time (news, blogs, games). You can add gadgets to any page in your site, and visitors can also add gadgets to the personalized space on a start page.

And because creating a Google Site is as easy as editing a document, with no markup language for you to learn, adding gadgets and rich media is just as easy. There are a few settings to choose as far as how it will be displayed on your site, but you do not need to know any coding language to include gadgets on your site.

All of these options are available under the Insert menu while editing your site.

Add a subpage listing gadget

In addition to creating sub-menus within the navigation menus, you can also add a subpage listing gadget for automatically generating index pages based on site structure. Like the sidebar navigation, it is configurable to a depth of your choosing. Site collaborators can add the gadget to any page by going to: "Edit page" -> "Insert" menu -> "Subpage listing."

For an example of using a subpage listing gadget-- visit the Iowa Google Apps Website

Add a subpage listing

To add a listing to a main page with links to the subpages, follow these steps:

Click the top level page in the sidebar, then click the Edit page button.
Click Insert > Subpage listing.
Enter the title of the main page in the Title field. Select the appearance of the listing and click Save.

You'll now have sub-menus for your pages. You can repeat this for all top level pages and subpages.

Recently updated files

This feature will help you keep track of changes made to files stored on a File Cabinet page.

Click the top level page in the sidebar, then click the Edit page button.
Click Insert > Recently Updated Files

3. Choose the page you would like to get the updates from.

4. Select the Number of files to show, and decide if you'd like your display to Include a border and title.

5. Select Save.

Inserting HTML Embed Code from other Web 2.0 Sites

Inserting HTML Embed Code from Web 2.0 Sites

1. Copy the embed code of the web project or video of interest. There isn't a consistent icon or location for embed codes. It depends on the website. Here are two examples of different sites using a different icon to signal the embed code.

2. Go to the Google Site page you wish to place the web project, or video.

3. Edit page > Select <HTML> from the tool bar.

4. Paste the embed code where you would like it to appear on the page. (This could get a little confusing since you are now dealing with HTML code, but play with the location - you can always remove it ;). A little tip...if you put your cursor where you want it and then hit return or enter to make some line breaks- it creates a <br> in the code. That way when you look at the HTML code you will see multiple <br> that may help you determine where to put the code. either before or after the <br>.

5. Click Update > Save your page to view the embedded item.

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