There’s also a basic image gallery feature. Google Sites may have a dedicated button to add YouTube videos by default, but the Embed tool lets you insert a Vimeo URL in our page as well, for instance. If you need more, the Embed control may be able to help.
The embed tool allows you to include media from other sides, such as Vimeo videos (Image credit: Google) There's nothing special about the viewer – it's just a scrolling window – but this does provide an easy way to combine multiple content sources into a single page. Google Docs allow embedding Slides, Charts, Forms and other documents. The Calendar control embeds any of your calendars onto the page, while the Map control can refer to your own maps, or whatever new location you need. Click YouTube and you can embed one of your own YouTube uploads, or run general YouTube searches to find what you need. The integration with Google services is just as useful elsewhere. That's far more convenient than other services, which either don't support a media library or require you to build one from scratch. You're then able to choose from a gallery of around 50 free images, as well as browsing your Google Albums or Drive, or running a Google Images search. But as with the editor, dig a little deeper and the service proves a little smarter than you might expect.įor example, replacing the default header image is as easy as hovering your mouse over it and clicking Change Image > Select Image. Google Site's media handling features may seem basic, at least initially, with only images and YouTube embeds available from the standard controls.
You can select images your own, or have access to Google’s vast library (Image credit: Google) Media There doesn’t seem to be a way to manually alter the photo. If you don’t like the result, you can always click on the button lower right of the image to revert it. When you add an image to the header, it’s automatically ‘adjusted for readability’, which alters its settings.
There’s also a Themes tab which gives you a choice of six header and site styles, and enables simple tweaks of your colours and font. Additional options let you to connect to Google’s other services such as : YouTube, Calendar, Map, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms and Charts. You have a handful of layout options, as well as tools to create collapsible text, image carousels, and a table of content among others. You have the ability to add text boxes, images, embed code, and connect to your Google Drive. A toolbar on the right displays a list of widgets. The bulk of the window is taken up by a preview of the current page. If you chose a template, it will be loaded for you and ready to the customised. Launch your first Google Sites project and it opens in a very sparse-looking and minimalist editor. The main page mostly shows your site, with a sidebar on the right and a few tool top right of the window (Image credit: Google) Editor
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