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What is a Google Site? Getting Started - Create Your Site. File Cabinet. Insert Menu. Recent Site Activity. Page Templates. Apps Scripts. Deleted Items. General Settings. Sharing and Permissions. Web Address. Themes, Colors and Fonts. Edit Site Layout-Sidebar, Navigation. Advanced Google. Video Tutorials. There's only one catch: Each element in the header is still centered, so you can't drag the logo to the top left corner or add text to the bottom of the banner. Now you can add the content you want to your page.

From the Insert menu on the right, you can add text or images, or embed a link from another site. Google Sites lets you resize and crop images, and its text editor lets you quickly format text with standard keyboard shortcuts or the menu that pops up when you select text.

Add titles and subheadings from the editor's menu, or if you want to share code perhaps in a tutorial about writing HTML , click the 3-dot button on the right to add code-style monospaced formatting. Since we can't add a logo to the top corner of our site, I've added Zapier's logo as an image—and resized it to look nice on the page. I've then added a Text box with sub-heading formatting for some larger text, followed by a second text box with normally formatted text.

Select the type of item you want to insert, and you'll see a Docs-style popover where you can search for the item you want and then Select it to insert it in a new section in your page. It's a simple way to build a landing page or make a live report with an embedded presentation and spreadsheet.

You can use it use it to create a website for a team project, for example, or to plan meetings and activities in one easily accessible place. On the left of each section of your site, you'll see a 3-dot button that you can drag to rearrange the section on your page.

Tap the color palette to select a different background style for that section, or click the trashcan to delete it. I've added a darker color to accent our map, for instance—a great way to break up longer pages visually. Want to add multiple columns to your layout, perhaps to have a group of pictures together, or to add several of your product's top features in one spot?

Just double-click any blank space on your page, and Google Sites' magical circle menu will open again. Select what you'd like to add, and it'll show up in a new column right under where you clicked. Only that one section will have multiple columns, so you could have say a full-width site description, then 3 columns in the next section with details about your site, followed by a full-width video section.

Tip: If you add smaller images to your page, they'll automatically be added together in one, multi-column row. Or, double-click on the 3-dot button to open a hidden circle menu, where you can again insert text, images, or Google Drive files. That inserts the new item beside your existing element, for a quick way to make that section of your site multi-column.

You can then resize elements in each section, with gridlines to make sure everything's aligned nicely. It's one of the simplest ways to make a multi-column page layout—and it's nearly hidden in Google Sites. Tip: To keep your images in their original aspect ratio, drag a corner to start resizing them then press your Shift key to resize in the correct aspect ratio.

If you only need one page on your site, you're all done—as is our example About Zapier page. Or, you can keep building your site with extra pages.

Add extra pages from the second tab in the right toolbar. Just add a title for your page, and it'll automatically be added to the menu in your site's header. You can drag-and-drop pages to the order you want with their 3-dot button.

Or, drag a page under another page to turn it into a subpage, something you can also do from the menu on the right of each page.

There's one more thing you can tweak: Your site's design. The new Google Sites' themes are driven by your content, with large image-based headers and full-width text blocks. But there are still a number of ways you can create a unique look. Just tap the Themes tab on the right sidebar, and select from one of the 6 available themes.

Each one includes 3 different font styles, along with 5 color schemes, to give your site a slight different look and feel. Combine that with your own graphics and a customized multi-column layout, and you can make Google Sites fit your branding and feel like a unique, custom-built site. The default Simple style fits Zapier's branding well, though the default blue color doesn't quite fit—so a quick change to black and our page is done. Tip: Need help making graphics for your site?

Check out our Design crash course. One of Google Sites' best features is its sharing settings, which work the same as Google Drive. You can share your site with anyone, and let them help edit it.

Just tap the person icon in the editor, and you can share the site you're working on with your entire team. With individual accounts, you can add specific people to let them edit the site; in a company G Suite account, your website will be visible to everyone in your company, but they won't be able to edit it. Enable editing, and your site turns into a wiki of sorts without version control or edit history, though where everyone can tap the pencil icon on the site and edit anything on it.

Then, it's time to publish your site. Give it a unique URL, so you can then open your site at sites. And choose whether you want this site to be shared only with your team—the default choice, best for most company internal sites—or with the web to make a quick site for a new public-facing project.