🔥Get Awesome Google Sites Templates!
Google Sites allows you to easily embed productivity tools from all over Google Workspace into your intranet. There are also plenty of other applications that can be integrated with Sites to improve communications and streamline content management.
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Favorites of Sites users include:
Embed Google Reviews, quotes and testimonial cards
Logo slider
LinkedIn Feed
Social media and RSS feeds
Interactive maps and image hotspot
Utility gadgets: clocks, countdowns, weather and chat apps
Install Google Analytics on your Google Site to track traffic, engagement and acquisition statistics. You add a data stream to public websites or private intranets.
Code, deploy and embed web apps made with Google Apps Script, which connects to all sorts of Google Workspace products.
No code and low code apps that help with workflows within an organization. Create and insert directories, databases and other templates into Sites securely.
Embed calendars to stay informed about activities, events and room reservations.
Utilize Chat API to allow embedding Google Spaces announcement into Google Sites. Learn more
Use the search engine of Google Workspace within Sites which allows you to search Drive, Gmail and more.
Embed documents, PDF previews, shared drives, folders and videos from Google Drive.
Publish your sign up forms, requests and quizzes to add and capture submissions from viewers.
Your traditional web forum or listserv which can be embedded in a view-only form on Sites.
Support for Maps and My Maps to embed and geo-locate.
Every kind of web form you could ever need on your website and advanced options to streamline your business.
Dynamic and powerful tables for a multitude of purposes in your website.
Embed Google Sheets data like a database into your site with Boardly and a customizable dashboard.
Simply paste the HTML code from the site you want to embed. Use <html>,<style>, and <script> to employ HTML, CSS stylesheets and JavaScript. Many websites like social media platforms, generate code snippets that you can add into your site. Google Sites makes it easy to plug and play those kinds of widgets.
This option to embed URLs from the web will often yield two options: insert an entire iframe of the target URL in your page or create a preview, which shows a link with a thumbnail and description from the site.
Sometimes you can't embed due to provider site permissions. In that case the URL will display as a text link. In other cases, the site your embedding may require authentication. So, if the preview is blank, sign in to the site and try reloading the preview. Viewers need to be signed in to see the embed.
Google Sites is a great way to learn a bit of code. There are many examples of custom slideshows, effects, buttons and animations you can add to your site to make it unique.