Want a site on your own domain? Just create a G Suite account for your domain for $5/month per person on your team, and you can link your domain to Google Sites from your G Suite Sites admin, then follow these directions to add your site to the new domain. The only catch is that by default, your site will be on Google's domain, with an address like /view/yoursite. The new Google Sites uses your Google Drive account to store images and files you share on your site, so you can even store up to 15GB of files for your sites for free, shared with your other Google apps. With just a standard Google account, you can make as many Google Sites as you want for free. You can build all of those and more in Google Sites.Īnd, it's free. Or, you could want a way to share contact info and calendars with your class, as Señora Aguirre did in the new Google Sites. You might need a site for your brand, as Steegle and DPI Partners built with the older and newer Google Sites, respectively. Perhaps you've built an online course, and would like to share it with the world as Photoweb did with the older Google Sites. Maybe you want to make a detailed site with pages and pages of info, as Mary Fran did with details about Google apps.

You can build almost any site you want with Google Sites For that and other more wiki-like features, you might want to keep using the older Google Sites editor for now.

Tip: The new Google Sites doesn't include version control, so you can't undo changes others made to your site. Either way, they're a great way to quickly build a website or intranet for your team. The newer one includes a cleaner design, and is easier to use, while the older version includes a few extra features including an option to track changes to the page so you can go back to a previous version. It uses a one-column design like many modern websites, and it makes it easier than ever to lay out your site, with all the tools organized into a sidebar or a popover menu that appears when you select text on your site.īoth app versions are still available-you can choose which editor you'd like to use when creating a new site. Then, in late 2016, Google revamped Google Sites, giving it a design quite similar to the new Google Forms.

The new Google Sites editor looks more like the new Google Forms

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