Build Your Site

Site Name / Page Title

The first thing to do when building a site is to give it a name. Click in the top left corner where it says "Untitled Site" and name your site.

Next, you want to give the page you are working on a name. Simply click "Your page title" and enter a page title.

Insert

Google Sites makes it very easy to insert or embed information into your site especially if it is located within your Google Drive. To the left of your screen you will notice the INSERT menu board of options. You can access the settings of each item inserted by clicking on it.

Text box - editable box to enter text
Images - insert images from Google, your Google Drive, by URL, or Upload from your desktop
Embed - create links to websites or embed videos directly into your site
From Drive - upload files from your Google Drive

Users can now insert pre-designed layouts. On the INSERT menu, Google has provided six layout options from which to choose. Single click on the desired layout to add it to a page.

Button - creates a button that can be linked to external or internal sites
Divider - insert a thin line to serve as a divider between sections
YouTube - embed YouTube videos directly into your site
Calendar - embed any Google Calendar to which you have access
Maps - embed a Google Map of any location
Docs - insert Google Docs that you can zoom, scroll, or pop out into a separate window
Slides - insert an entire Slides presentation directly into your site
Sheets - insert a Sheet that allows the audience to scroll through to view the entire sheet
Forms - embed a Google Form that you audience can complete without having to leave your site
Charts - insert a chart visually displaying data from one of your Google Sheets

Pages

Google Sites only has one style of page you can create. However, as the creator of the site you do have some options for personalization.

Clicking the Pages tab in the top right corner gives you a variety of options:

Add New Page or a New link - click the circle with a + icon at the bottom of the menu pane on the right
3 Dots - while the mouse is hovering over a page title, click the three dots (right of page title) to make a page the homepage, duplicate the page, see the page properties, add a sub-page, hide the page from the navigation, or delete a page
To rename a page, double click on the title of the page

Rearrange pages by clicking on anywhere on the page title in the menu pane to the right and dragging it the order you want