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How to Make a Google Site
How to Make a Google Site
1. The first thing you need to do is open Google Sites.
1. The first thing you need to do is open Google Sites.
Go into your Google Drive. Open the folder where you’d like to store the website, then choose “New”, “More” and “Google Sites”. (If you don’t have any folders, you could create one by choosing “New” and “Folder”.
2. You can start working with your Google Site -- adding information, graphics and links.
2. You can start working with your Google Site -- adding information, graphics and links.
3. Name your site - you can always change the name later.
3. Name your site - you can always change the name later.
Click away from the name to save it. You will see the name in the upper left corner of the black Title Bar.
4. Change the “Title Bar” for the first page of your website.
4. Change the “Title Bar” for the first page of your website.
Currently it is dark grey and says “Your page title”. If you pass the cursor (with your mouse or track pad) over the title, a blue box will appear. You can type in a new title for this page. You can add more pages later.
Click on the text to change the title.
Click on “Header type” to make your text and header bar larger or smaller.
Click on “Change image” to choose a new image for the top of the webpage. You can use something from your photos, from Google, or an image from a set that they give you.
Have a look on the left. You will see three options - “Insert”, “Pages” and “Themes”.
Publishing your Site
Publishing your Site
Once you are finished, you can launch the site on the internet.
Click Publish
Give your site a unique name
Click Publish
Other options:
Other options:
You will often see words that are hyperlinked to websites. Often they are blue in colour and when you click on the word it will take you to another site.
You can do this easily.
You can do this easily.
1. Copy the URL (the address) from the site you want to link to
2. Highlight the text in your document that you would like to turn into a link
3. Click the “link” option above -- it looks a bit like a link in a chain
4. Paste the link into the line and click “Apply”
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