Privacy & Publishing

2. If you want to give someone viewing privileges for your site, your professor for example, add their email address and make them a Published Viewer. You can write them a message to let them know you are sharing the site with them. 

3. If you want to add someone as an editor, a group member for example, simply add their email address and select the Editor option for them.

4. Once you added specific viewers and/or editors you can adjust the privacy setting for your site, this is done in the Links section of the Share with people and groups pop-up.

5. Click on Change in the Links section.

6. Draft should be restricted to you and those in your group if it is a group assignment.

7. Published site  should be set to Restricted if you want the site private and only want your named viewers to see the site. 

8. If you want the public to see your site, for example for an online portfolio, then choose the Public setting.

9. To publish your site and make it viewable click on “Publish” in the top right hand corner.

10. You will be prompted to give your site a web address (this is the URL that will appear in the address bar of your browser). There is a chance that your first choice for a web address might already have been used. If so, try a variation.

11. To make your website live, click on “Publish" in the lower right-hand corner.

12. From now on, any time you make a change to your website you will have to click on Publish again. Google Sites will show you a preview of the changes (for example if you deleted a page) before you make your changes go live.

13.  To share a link with someone, go to the particualr pagee you'd like to share (e.g. the home page), and click on the lnik icon in the top toolbar.

14. Click on "Copy Link" and paste it in an email, a document, or anywhere you'd like to share the link.

To paste the link, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + V (Windows), Cmd+V (Mac) or right-clink and choose Paste.