Productivity Enhanced Using Google Sites in G Suite

Apart from communicating through Emails and collaborating documents in the Google Drive, there are much more we can do via Google platform.

One of such feature is Google Sites. You can create your own sites using this.

Google Sites are basically the tool that allows us to create our own website as the term suggests but you might be thinking what’s different in that. There are also other platforms who are offering this facility as well, like - Wordpress, Wix, Weebly, Webnode etc. Google Sites are unique among them as its providing a platform to those who are not so tech savvy.

Being a G Suite user you might be aware of the collaborative feature available in the Google Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides etc. Suppose, if you are offered a platform where you can work on all of them at a single place that means, at a single place you are adding docs, sheets, syncing calendars and lots more. In Google sites also, a number of collaborators can work simultaneously to create a site. The most interesting thing is that we don’t have to use any coding or apply any programming and no need for any designing skills here.

Can do :

• Users can manage or set the sharing permission and ownership

• Collaboration

• Set a theme.

• Secure the site by providing access and assigning privileges without the help of IT.

So let's have a tour to what and how of Google Sites.

Creating a Google Site -

In order to create a site -

1. Open New Google Sites.

2. On the bottom right corner, click on “ + “ icon in the bottom right corner.

3. After clicking on it, the page appears like:-

4. After adding your content, you can have a preview of the site, by clicking on .

5. After previewing, click on PUBLISH (on the top right corner).

After clicking on Publish, you will get the option to manage the persons who can view your Website -

1. Anyone in your domain.

2. Anyone on the web.

Note - When talking about anyone on the web, that means you are making it public. You can also select that every public search engine should not display your website from the publish settings part available next of Publish.

     3. Specific people.

After done with this part let’s have a look at what are the special things that can be added on a site.

1. You can do text formatting by adding the textbox

2. You can add any file from the web directly(by embedding hyperlinks), from local drive, or from your Google Drive.

3. You can embed your calendar, your location, even any links from YouTube.

4. You can also put link of any of your existing site.

You can give your site a professional look, by choosing different themes and customize it the way you want to have it. You can also insert your Google+ pages.

When speaking about its advantage on a large scale, if an organization is working with a large no. of team members, it can also use the Google Sites to build an intranet for communication purposes and at the same time give privileges to them of editing or just viewing.