Sharing and Collaborating

Now that you've created your Google site, you can share it with your friends, family, coworkers, or make it public. Just click More actions in the top right of any page and select Share this site.

As the site owner, you can control who can edit and view your site by adding others as owners, collaborators, or viewers. Follow these steps:

1. Enter the email addresses of the people you'd like to add.
2. Select 'as owners,' 'as collaborators,' or 'as viewers.'
3. Click Invite these people. Then write a message and click Send if you'd like to send an invitation, or click Skip sending an invitation to add people to your site without sending them an invitation. They'll still be able to access the site if they know the URL.

Here's what owners can do:

• Invite other owners, collaborators, or viewers
• Change site themes, and layout
• Change the site name
• Delete the site
• Do everything a collaborator can do

Here's what collaborators can do:

• Create, edit, delete pages
• Move pages
• Add attachments
• Add comments
• Add pages to and remove them from the sidebar navigation
• Subscribe to site and page changes

Here's what viewers can do:

• View pages

You can send up to 50 invites per day. If you make your site public, you don't need to send invitations for people to be able to view it.

Note: if you use Google Apps, you can control who can edit and view by domain. However, your domain administrator may restrict the ability to share outside the domain.

Revision history

While you and your collaborators are editing your site, you can keep track of changes (and of the person who made them), and even revert to an older version by using 'Revision history.' From your site, click More actions in the top right of any page and select Revision history.

On the next page, you'll see a list of the site versions, the date and time each was last edited, and the name of the person who made the changes. You can also compare two revisions at a time by selecting one version and clicking the Compare two versions link.

If you change your mind about the most recent edits you or your collaborators made to the site, simply revert to an older version. Here's how:

1. Click any version from the list. Optionally, while viewing a particular version, use the Compare two versions link to see the differences highlighted.
2. After returning to the 'Version history' view, click the Revert to this version link next to the version you'd like to revert to.

Your document is reset to the version you selected. The replaced version is also included in the version history and can be restored as well.