Another powerful feature of Google Drive is the ability to
make websites. These websites are called Google Sites. And
these will not be a custom websites, you cannot just have
any web address, because all web addresses will start from
sites.google.com, slash and then view or something like that. And
then your address if you get that address, because some
addresses have already been taken by other people who use
Google Sites. So if you are happy to accept this non custom
addresses, then you can make Google Slides for your contents
to share with your collaborators and your team members or general
public. Because if you are a business, you might have few
things which you want to share with the general public. And you
have your own websites, but you don't want those shares to
happen on your own website. So the there is a room for Google
sites for businesses. And in this video, we will learn how to
create Google Sites. So the first thing you want to do is
you want to be in the root of your Google Drive are in any
particular folder where you want to create your website, because
that Google site will essentially be a Google
document. So what I will do is I will create a folder in my root,
Google Drive, and then I will create a website inside that
folder, I click on my drive, and this is the root of my drive.
And now I right click on my drive and create a new folder.
my website's create. And now I click on that folder, this
folder is empty. And here I am going to create my website. So
to do that, I click on new, more, and Google Sites, and no
This site has been created. And now I want to customize this
website. So the first thing is the cover page or the title
page, I have few options here, I can change the image I can
upload from my computer, or I can select an image. So first,
see how I can select an image. And no, there are a few options,
which I already have here in Google Sites. And I can select
any of these image. If I want, I can click on Google Drive and
select any of the image from my Google Drive. In this case, I'm
going to select any of these default options provided to me
by Google. So let us assume we select this option. And I say
select or this is my title page, I can select the title of my
page, let's say my website to add contents. On the right hand
side, I have these three tabs inside pages and themes. Themes
is where you can select any of the theme or any type of phones
or these kind of things. For example, if I select this
diplomat theme, the style of this theme will appear here, the
font will change and other few things are in pages, I can
create pages of my website. But the first thing you should start
is from Insert Tab. And in the Insert menu, you have four main
options. First is you can insert from your Google Drive. So what
it means is that if you insert any of your Google document,
that document will be previewed on your website, it will create
a wonderful preview. So let's see how it looks like on Google
Drive. And now I select any of these documents. So let us take
some document from my PDF folder. I have this
presentation. So I will select this presentation and I will
click on Insert at the right bottom. And now this document
has been inserted on my website. So now here, I can add many
elements. If I look on the right hand side, I can add a table of
contents image carousel button divider. So let's say this is my
first section. And now I want to put a divider here. So I just
click divider, and it will put this divider here. And now I
want to add something else so I can embed something. So this
embed means if I have a link to one of my Google documents, so
that link I can put here. So let's see how it works. So in
order to embed something, I have to get the link first. So let us
take some link from my Google documents. So I go to my main
drive. And let's see, I click on this document and I click on
share.
And this is my shareable link. So I just copy link here and
done and close this document and know on my website, and no I
click on this embed. I put the link of my document here and no
a preview of the document appears here so it will not
insert as a link But as a preview document, so I can no
say insert. And no, my document has been inserted. And when I
will view the website, I can scroll the document and I can
see the full document and I will show you in a minute, no, I can
add another divider here. And now let's see how to add any
image. So I click on this image, and this time I upload an image.
And let us say I upload this image from my computer. And now
this image will be added here. So in this way, you can add
elements to your website. If you want to preview the website, you
click on this preview icon. And Google will create a preview of
your website so you can have a look. For example, this is my
presentation. As you can see, I can scroll and I can see all the
slides of my presentation here, you can add Google Slides as
well just put the link of your Google slide and all your
presentation, which you have made in Google slide will appear
here. Similarly, in my document area, I can scroll the document
and I can see all pages of my document. So this is all you
preview. Now you can add a text box by clicking on this link. If
you want to write something for your customer or for your
collaborators some message or some description at the top, you
can insert a text box and write something. And know for example,
I want to publish this website. So I just click on Publish. And
it will show me this dialog box. And this is the starting address
of my website. And then after this after this slash whatever
address I want I can put here for example, let's say I want
this web address digit idea help, Google will check whether
this address is available or not. If not, then it will show
me a message and if available, I will be able to get that
address. And let's say I click Publish. And now my website has
been published, because I didn't get any message that this
address is not available or something like that. And now if
I click here, I have the ability to view my published a website.
And if I click this so this is my published website and anyone
with this address will be able to access this website. So be
aware that I might unpublish this website when you are
watching this course. But this is how you create websites using
Google Drive and Google Sites