Assignment 3:  Google Sites

General Instructions:

• Create a website using Google Sites.  

• Title the site your name - for example, I would name my website "John W Simmer"

• Share the site with simmerj@bibbed.org (select "to edit" instead of "to view" in the settings) & make it "Public on the web."

• Send me an email with your website's URL (the link to your home page) in it, so I can copy and paste it onto our class website.   

• Create a new page on your website titled "About Me"

• Insert the "About Me" document we created in Google Drive earlier into your website's "About Me" page. 

1.  How to create a website using Google Sites:  

• • Go to Google and sign in.

  • Click on the small square of squares that is the Google Apps menu (at the top on the right-hand side of the page)

  • Click on "More"

  • Click on "Even More"

  • Scroll halfway down the page to the "Home and Office" apps, and click on "Sites"

  • Choose "Blank Template"

  • Type in your full name for the site name.

  • Type in the captcha word (exactly as it appears) at the bottom of the page.

  • Click the red "Create" button.

NB:  If the page displays red notification under the name of your site saying the location is not available, that means someone else has already created a website with that name.  You will need to modify your site's name.  Try adding your middle initial, middle  name, or the year to the end of the name (as in "John W Simmer 2014").  Once you have changed the name, click the submit button again.

• It may prompt you for another captcha with a different word; if so, retype the captcha and click "Create" again. 

• You may need to repeat this process several times until you have a name no one else has already used.  

2.  How to create a new page on your site:  

• • First, make sure you are signed into Google.

  • Go to your Google website (click on the apps square on Google; scroll down to "Sites").

  • Open your website and click on the "New Page" icon on the top right-hand side of your homepage.

  • Name your page "About Me".

  • Click on "Create".

3.  How to insert a document from Google Drive into a page on your site:  

• • First, make sure you are signed into Google.

  • Go to your Google website (click on the apps square on Google; click more, even more, scroll down to "Sites").

  • Click on the "About Me" page you created.

  • Click on the "Edit Page" icon on the top right-hand side of the page.

  • Click in the main section of the page, and your blinking cursor will appear.

  • Click on the "Insert" menu on the top left-hand side of the page.

  • Select "Drive" and then select "Document".

  • Select your "About Me" document from your Drive.

  • Click on the "Save" button on the top right-hand side of the page.