hi everybody welcome back my name is mr. Campbell from mr. Campbell rocks calm this is 1.6 in our
Google site tutorials setting up the site navigation by default when a visitor comes
to your Google site they're going to see the navigation bar at the top in the order
that you created it through your pages if you need help with moving pages reordering them or
nesting them you can go to the previous tutorial which is one point five today we're talking just
about navigation so when we get to our Google site right up here next to the name of the site there's
a little gear so we're gonna click on that gear we have a lot of different options here right but
specifically today we're talking about navigation so when we go to mode what that tells us is where
the navigation is going to appear we can either have it on the top or the side and you'll notice
right when I click to the side is our navigation is going to jump over to the left right now I can
also change that color to black or white or transparent now what transparent does is it
just pulls the image that we have already put in there and puts it behind so I'm actually going to
turn it back to black we're going to click OK now the navigation pops in from the left hand
side of things now there's a lot of information here about sites and what people look at what's
happened with the internet over time is it's basically trained people to look at a website
in a specific way and if you can imagine a big capital letter F on this website is and this is
their studies done hundreds of studies talking about this is typically what happens is our eyes
go from left to right top to bottom but we lose a lot of information down here and so when we put
the navigation over here in the top left corner we're clicking on it what we're actually doing
is we're making people do a little bit more work then if we had it across the top because that's
one more step for me to find the information I want and if I don't find the information I
want or I get frustrated because I can't find the information I'm going to leave the Google
site now if it's your students obviously they need to come here but it's apparent and they
have to go through three pages and four different things to click on it they're never going to come
back again to find that information and so what you'll want to put is you'll want to put the most
important information at the top you also have a footer which we'll talk about later where it
has all of your contact information but as far as a menu my recommendation just from my background
in business and building websites and doing different things like that is that you want to
have your menu across the top does every Google site ever have it across the top no are there
successful websites and Google Sites that have the information down the left absolutely what we have
learned though is just think about the websites that you visit on a regular basis espn.com the
New York Times The New Yorker whatever web sites they generally have your meant the menu across the
top and then they have sub menus when you click on those and then they have information or links down
the left that aren't necessarily as important not every website but a lot of them do so to go back
again we're going to click on the gear change the mode we'll go click on top then it'll be back I'm
actually gonna keep the white there so the menu is a little bit more separated from the image and the
rest of the website again this finishes the first module of google site training which is basically
creating our site we have created a site you've created a site congratulations you need to pat
yourself on the back you need a clap right now now you have a lot of work to do you got to put
information in you got to add pictures you got to add text but now your Google site the framework
and the the template and the theme should all be set the way that you want now you just need
to end add the information again I appreciate you I love you and I'm glad that you're here