Google Sites: How to Create Dynamic Wiki Style Website Easily?

Google sites based on JotSpot wiki Software is a new service of Google that lets you create and edit websites without learning HTML, CSS or JavaScript. It's a free website builder to create any categorical website for personal, business or blogging purposes. With Google's free collections of themes, templates and tons of widgets have made Google sites more flexible to managing site and publishing content. Newbies may find this platform a little bit crucial since all of its control units remaining on static pages which is not much familiar with other website building platforms. Anyway today we'd show you all how easily and quickly you can create you personal wiki style website for free within less than 5 minutes.

Creating Site on Google Sites

1. Go to sites.google.com
2. Now choose your preferred wiki template → Click browse → Search for wiki

3. You should see a collaboration of different wiki styles
4. Pick on and hit save
5. Now provide a Title of your site that can cover your site content
6. Also provide and unique site URL → Enter Captcha → Hit Create

Site Management

Here you're on main page of your site and any kind of edition you've to do from here. Below are given some instructions to manage your site for content

To change site layout:

1. Click on More actions → Site layout

2. Now you have chances to edit site width, header, navigations, menu bar etc.

To change page settings:

1. Click on More actions → Page settings

2. You have four types of options to change page format

To add new page:

1. Simply click on New page button (top right)
2. Now provide your page name → also pick a custom URL → set page location on home page → Hit create
3. Now on the blank space add your page content
4. Also you can add different widgets → simply click insert (top left) → choose more widgets → prefer your widgets from largest collections

5. Finally save your page and you're done

Google Sites offers 10 GB of extra storage – you can add file attachments to web pages or embed rich content from other Google applications like YouTube videos, Google Docs, Presentations, iGoogle gadgets and Picasa Photo slideshows.

Here’s a video from the product manager of Google Sites explaining the individual features:


Websites created inside Google Sites can be private or you can publish them in the public domain so everyone else can edit your pages.   And like other Wikis, Google Sites maintain a log of all changes made by users.

Google Sites have templates so you can give a more consistent look to all your website pages. You can also use Google Sites to create custom Facebook Pages.

Need More Help?

Google sites is a JotSpot wiki based software which you can use to create wiki websites for personal, business or study purposes. This site is very easy to create and you need not optimize any single piece of content since it's auto optimized by Google and visible to all search engines even you need not submit any sitemap to Google.

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