Creating Websites with Google Sites Thomas La Foe Instructional Technology Specialist Mississippi State University Libraries
[email protected] #megaresource Megaresource Workshop - Google Sites Creating a Google Site Visit sites.google.com and login with your Google account. From the Google Sites page click Create and select “in new Sites.” The New Google Sites offers a friendly user interface an lots of interactive features. Google sites is a browser-based website editor. When you open a site for editing, it appears in a new tab in your browser window. The tools are listed on the right of the window and your page appears on the left. 2 - Megaresource Workshop - Google Sites Megaresource Workshop - Google Sites Editing Site Title and Header Click here to edit the title of your site. Your site title appears in the title bar of your page. Click here to edit the header text of your first page. When you move your mouse over the bottom left corner of your header, the header options appear. You can upload an existing image or select an image from a gallery. Images can be selected from a gallery of stock images that Google offers, by typing a URL of an image, searching for an image, uploading from your Google+ (or Google Photos) albums, or your Google Drive. For more on inserting images see page 4. Once you choose your image, Google provides an “auto- enhancement” feature. If you do not like what this does to your image you can remove it by clicking in the bottom right of the header.