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The articles below are for new Google Sites: if you still use classic Google Sites see Classic Google Sites How Tos
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Settings
Navigation
Enable side navigation, instead of top navigation, and learn how it appears responsively in Google Sites.
How to set the site logo and navigation background colour to transparent, white or black in Google Sites
Brand images
Upload or select a logo for your Google Site and add its alt text for SEO and accessibility.
Add a custom favicon to your Google Sites to give an icon in the tab and bookmarks/favourites.
Viewer tools
Show or hide the date and time a page was last updated and a contact form for Google Workspace sites.
Gets links to a specific heading on a page in Google Sites and how to disable the display of these anchor links
Custom domains
Add your own custom domain (URL) web address to a Google Site made with a Gmail or personal Google Account.
Use your Google Workspace domain as a custom URL web address on a Google Site added by a Workspace Admin.
Analytics
Enable Google Analytics for your Google Site, to see the pageviews, traffic and audience of your site.
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Announcement banner
Add an announcement banner to your site to promote prominent information and announcements
Steegle News
for Google Sites
for Google Sites
Insert
Text box
Add, format (including custom font selection) and layout text in Google Sites
Align text tiles into columns and use the guides to centre them in the Google Sites editor
Use sections to horizontally group content and alter background images in new Google Sites.
Easily link to pages and Drive items by searching or provide a URL to a website in Google Sites.
Highlight important text with a background colour of the text in Google Site.
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Images
Insert, resize, crop and zoom images in new Google Sites by adding from Google Drive, upload or pasting
Make your images a consistent height within the same section of a Google Site.
Insert automatic image carousels, photo slider, picture slideshows, and galleries in Google Sites
Make an image a link to another Google Site page, Google Drive item or another website in Google Sites
Drive
Insert folders from Google Drive or any file that offers a Google Drive preview in Google Sites.
Use Google Drive to upload and share your files you want to provide from your Google Site.
Add files stored in Shared Drives, Shared Drive folders, or entire Shared Drives, to your Google Site.
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Embed
Insert external websites and web apps from Google Apps Script and Firebase (and more) to Google Sites with this iframe tool.
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Embed your own custom HTML, JavaScript and CSS to add Twitter Timelines, Newsletter sign up forms, Disqus comments and more
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Content Blocks
Quickly organise the content on your page with predefined section layouts in Google Sites
Duplicate Sections in your Google Sites and Copy and Paste across different pages
Group text, images and other items into vertical groups to give aligned content blocks in Google Sites.
How to cut, copy and paste text, images, embeds, vertical groups and entire sections in Google Sites.
Add collapsible and expandable groups with either text or images as the heading to a Google Site.
Insert an automatically-generated table of contents that links to the headings through page anchors in Google Sites.
Add placeholders to pages to assist your collaborative editors with adding images, Drive items, YouTube, Calendar or Maps.
(Google Workspace Business and Enterprise Only)
Change the site search option or add the CloudSearch gadget to a page in a Google Site.
Insert charts contained within Google Sheets spreadsheets to your Google Sites.
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Pages
Navigation Management
Find your pages easily in the Google Sites editor with all or part of the assigned page name.
Add pages or sub-pages, and organise the page order of the side or top navigation in Google Sites.
Add links to external websites, other site pages, or items in Drive, in your Google Site's side or top navigation.
Add links to external websites, other site pages, or items in Drive, in your Google Site's side or top navigation.
Page Management
Copy entire pages, or use the copy page feature as a replacement for page templates, in Google Sites.
Set a page's path (part of the URL) so it does not follow the automatic assignment in Google Sites.
Google Sites offers 5 levels of page hierarchy to create and moves subpages in the navigation.
Page headers capabilities and limitations in Google Sites
Get a full-screen background image with the cover page header type in Google Sites.
Remove a page header from a Google Sites page and add back a blank page header.
Themes
See what you can achieve with the Themes in Google Sites, but you may prefer to make your own Custom Theme.
Specify a custom theme colour or pick a colour from your site logo automagically detected by Google Sites.
How to make a Custom Theme for your Google Site with specific fonts, colours, images and backgrounds.
Springboard Intranet
for Google Workspace
for Google Workspace
Site Management
More
Find previous versions of site or page and restore to that previous version or make a copied site from a revision.
Duplicate an all or part of a Google Site to use as a template, or as a backup of your site, or as a way to transfer ownership.
Send your feature requests and bug reports directly to Google from the Google Sites editor.
Steegle News
for Google Sites
for Google Sites
Site-wide Actions
Publish your site to just your organisation, the whole web or a select group of individuals
Learn how to make use of Google Sites fully mobile responsiveness and learn to live with multi-screen design concepts.
Make another user the owner of your Google Site, transfer to a different Google Workspace domain via Shared Drives.
Search for page content at your Google Sites published URL with the built-in site search.
Add and verify your sites.google.com URL to the Google Search Console to help with Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
See how to migrate a classic to new Sites and find out when you can expect to see classic Google Sites deprecation.
Use Google Takeout to export your new Google Sites to HTML and images files, to view offline on your device as a backup.
Extending Google Sites
Extend your Google Site with ecwid to make it an eCommerce or shopping portal for your products and services.
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