Find here a few hints/tips/resources etc. to working with Google Sites.
They might give you some new ideas!
Design tricks:
This site has many outstanding tricks for enhancing your site.
This site is pretty awesome, it shows some nice tips, AND people can contribute (using a form!). Just explore!
Menu tricks:
Google sites can have customized menus on the side (and the top). Here is how to do so!
How to add a horizontal navigation menu bar in detail:
Gadgets:
You can insert ready-made gadgets via the "insert" -> ".... More Gadgets ...." menu.
They usually are easy to configure, and will display specified content on your pages.
Google also has an extended list of gadgets on the following directory available:
You can select from their list. Explore and try one or two, so you get the feel of it!
More Embedding tricks:
Many third-party tools exist that can be added to your site. They can display the local weather, run a slideshow,
show your most recent visitors etc.
Most of them will use "embedded" html code, sometimes in an iFrame.
If you want to try the effect of embedded code before you use it, you can do so at w3schools!
Copy/paste your code, and visit http://www.w3schools.com/
You then can tinker around, and see the results. Pretty slick for testing size, colors, effects etc.
A good site with tips and examples for Widgets/html embeddin etc. is
These guys know Google sites in and out.
Take care: a Google search might reveal widgetbox www.widgetbox.com/) , they will stop business March 2014 though.
Another 'take care' issue:
Some widgets and gadgets will not run properly anymore, as Google Chrome now has extra security checks built-in.
They deal with not allowing a mix of https (secure) and http (insecure) sites. Tough to solve right now.
Working with Safari for those gadgets will not show the errors.
Google Site Examples (good ones!)
A great 'teacher' site: uses blog (announcement entries) in 2 diff. ways
An example (slick!) of a schools website
Nice banner, simple design
A community site, great startpage with photos
Just top-notch! In French, but have a look!
Tutorials:
Great tutorials AND examples
Great examples AND a great tutorial for all functions as well.
And of course: we have our subscription to video tutorials at Atomic Learning:
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