this week I want to talk about how you
can use Google Sites as an intranet
solution for your business Google Sites
is a simple solution for building
websites or intranet solutions for those
of you that don't know an intranet is
simply an internal web site generally
used for sharing private information and
essentially what what Google Sites does
is it gives you a way to build a web
server or an internet very very easily
and without any need for a knowledge of
web design or development or anything
like that and as I said we're gonna try
and do that now so I'm gonna give you a
couple of these of examples of Google
Sites so we've used it for example to
build this training site that we have
which is on learns and trained comm it's
public so you can take a look and we use
it to bring together all of the training
materials that customers might need and
embed videos and tips and tricks and PDF
resources and things like that our
friends over at steagle calm these guys
are the experts in Google Sites and you
should absolutely check out their their
website they have some fantastic
examples of Google Sites including their
own one as well which I've just opened
up here so a couple of examples of
customers that they have created web
sites for on Google Sites the
residential care home there and then
this is a intranet solution that they've
they've created here now these kind of
Link's work but it just sort of gives
you an idea of how you can kind of embed
things and as I said their own website
as well they have a fantastic amount of
resources on there around Google Sites
that would recommend that you take a
look at that and and a huge amount of
examples of Google Sites so so
definitely check those out if you have
any more more information that you
looking for on on Google Sites firstly
accessing Google Sites you click on the
little waffle menu here and on the
drop-down you'll see Google Sites as an
option you click on that and what it
will bring you to is the old Google
Sites so the new and we're still calling
it the new Google Sites although it's
been out for quite some time
daddy is what I'm going to fall
because the old or classic Google Sites
is going away so I click on the new
Google Sites down the bottom and it
brings me into the page where I have all
of my Google Sites that I have have
access to I'm gonna click the little
plus button down the bottom right hand
corner and that's gonna open up a new
page for me so now what I can do is I
can I can create my page here so I'm
gonna call it hyper global intranet
hyper globalism my company I'm gonna
expand it a little bit so everything is
gonna drag and drop and really really
easy for me to change stuff I'm gonna
change the background image here so I
can go in and I can actually select from
a whole array of images that Google have
and one of my favorite ones here is this
guy so I'm gonna click on this one and
Google will actually adjust it and make
it readable and for my my end users
now I'm gonna embed a little carousel in
here because I want to have a little
carousel of some images I can upload
images or I can select them from either
my Google Drive or my albums so I'm
going to go into my albums I have a
little event album in here and I'm gonna
select a bunch of images okay and then I
can expand my little carousel out and
it's just gonna browse through those
images now and then what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna put in a little divider and
I'd like to put in a calendar because
I'd like to have a team calendar when my
when my team come on here like to have a
little calendar for them to see so I'm
gonna put in the sales team calendar and
I can actually decide what I want and
what settings I want for this particular
this particular calendar so I don't any
of the navigation buttons or anything
like that I want a week view one week
view and I'm going to expand that out
and I do want some sort of title on here
so that it's obvious what it is um so
I'm gonna put in a little text box and
I'm gonna make it a subheading I'm gonna
call this team calendar I'm gonna just
pull this up so you can actually just
grab it and just pull it up and I will
actually move it up to the top and I can
emphasize it as well if I want
I'm gonna send to us but I actually
might make it a heading is a little bit
small so now I've got my team calendar
and then once you've got one of these
you can actually copy them which I find
easier and you just drop that one down I
can change this one then to something
else so I might have a launch bar and
underneath the launch bar I might put in
a couple of images so I could embed an
image I could have blowed it or select
it again you can run a search so if I
wanted to have like a little launch bar
for for Gmail I could do a little search
for a gmail logo we could embed this I
just shrink it in a little bit yeah we
might make it a little bit smaller and
then I might also want a I'm gonna show
you how to turn these into into links in
a second okay so now I have my my three
images and these could be links to any
site but in this case I'm going to turn
these into links to donors Oh buddy dude
gmail.com okay so you could you can
imagine you could you know you could
have smaller ones and again you couldn't
move these around so maybe you want your
launch bar at the top above your team
calendar you've changed your mind you
can actually just grab these and pull
them up here
and so now my launch Brides at the top
and if any stage you want to preview it
you can just hit preview and it will
show you what a what it looks like with
your your images and your launch bar and
your team calendar so that's what I have
so far
so from Google Drive I'm gonna embed a
shared team drive so a team drive that
everybody is using or shared drives it's
no called so I'm going to embed this
actually in here I'm gonna select it and
then click insert that's going to embed
das team drive in there and again I
could do a little heading on here if I
wanted I could pull this down okay call
this team drive and again it's listing
all of the the documents out okay so
we're going to create two new pages and
one is going to be my feedback page and
then the other one is going to be my
time off request page and then what I
can do is in each of these pages my plan
is to actually embed
a particular form into it I just find
personally it makes it easier so I've
got two forms that I want to embed my
time off form am on my feedback form so
my time off form is there I'm going to
just click on it and then click insert
and it will actually embed it in here
and they're gonna link back to it on the
other page so we can pull this across
it's actually embedded a choice it's my
fault and I'm gonna make this a little
bit bigger as well and make this header
simpler you should change the header
type you just title only for your
request I'm going to go to my feedback
page and I'm going to do the same with
this one I'm going to embed a different
form into this page and this form is
going to be my feedback form that's what
my feedback form there I don't do the
same thing I'm just gonna put it in the
center and pull it across I've got three
pages now what I'm gonna do is at the
bottom and my useful links I'm gonna
embed a image and one of them is going
to be feedback feedback image and I'm
gonna link this to the feedback page and
then I'm gonna do another one and this
can be my time off time off not sure
what kind of image I get for this take
some time off in your life that could
work I'm gonna link this guide to the
time off request okay so now when we
publish the page and we go to the
publish link so you can go to a little
publish link and I'll leave this side up
for people to look at now we have our
hyper global Internet we have our launch
bar we have our team calendar our team
drive which is embedded and now we have
our two links which if I click will
actually bring me to the feedback form
that people can fill out and the other
one will bring people to the other page
which is the time off request and
they're also up at the top as well
so that's just a really really fast
overview of Google Sites as an internet
solution and just to show you how easy
it is to create a Google site and I kind
of find it as the connector between your
Gmail your calendar your your Google
Drive that it can kind of pull all those
together and just make it easier for
teams to work together so that's it for
me I hope you enjoyed this week's update
and I will talk to you all next week