Thursday, November 19, 2009

Google Sites adds templates

The folks over at Google are updating their tools at a crazy frenzy. This week they released a wide assortment of templates to use when starting a Google Sites website. Why is this important? The template does provide a "look and feel" to the website, but more importantly it provides a complete structure. You can later tinker or add or delete to that structure if you so desire. You can read the complete announcement here:

Here's what used to happen. Creating a new website meant having one webpage. Then you would add another webpage and have links between them. And so on and so forth. Using their templates you can start with a complete structure to your website. I tested out one of their many templates for creating a co-shared work project. I automatically got a 9 page website with clear links between them: one page for downloading files, one for keeping track of how much of the project has been completed, and so forth. The addition of templates now makes Google Sites much easier to get started with (and it was pretty easy before). Check out the short video below:

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