Google Sites

Getting Started

Use the links below to find out what you need to know in Google Sites during your first few days on Google Workspace.

Create a Google Site

Google Sites can be used to create websites that contain pages that are made up of gadgets and Google Workspace elements such as shared calendars, documents, videos and more. You can set a theme for a site, add images and formatting to brand the site, and share the site with collaborators and...

Create pages in a site

When you create a new Google Site, the site will contain a single page. You can add new pages as required, which will automatically be added to the menu navigation so that your viewers can locate the new page easily...

Create sub pages

You can create a new page to show as a subpage of another page in the site, so that the new page is shown underneath the original page in the navigation menu of the site...

Set navigation hierarchy 

As you create new pages in a Google site, they will appear automatically in the menu of the site, with each page showing as a main menu. You can change the hierarchy of your pages to create submenus in the site, but can currently only create one level of submenus...

Add layouts to a page

You can use page layouts in Google Sites to set the position of text, images and other items on the page. There are a number of layouts that can be used and once they have been added to a page, you can add content to each placeholder in the layout as required.

Work with text on a page

After creating a page in Google Sites, you can add a number of elements to the page, including text boxes and Google Workspace elements such as docs, sheets, slides and forms. Each element appears in a section on the page, and can be resized as required...

Work with images on a page

After creating a page in Google Sites, you can add a number of elements to the page, including text boxes and images which can be sized to specific sizes to fit with the responsive design of Google Sites. This means that images will display correctly on any device, from a laptop to a tablet or mobile phone. 

Embed a URL onto a page

You can embed the URL of another website onto your page, so that visitors to your page can click on the URL to visit the target site. If the website you are embedding has set up summary information to show when their URL is embedded on page, this will display automatically on your page...

Add Google Workspace elements to a page

After creating a page in Google Sites, you can add a number of elements to the page, including text boxes, images and Google Workspace elements such as docs, sheets, slides and forms. Each element appears in a section on the page, and can be resized as required.

Add other elements to a page

As well as adding Google Workspace elments such as docs, sheets and slides, you can also add elements such as buttons, divider lines and image carousels to a page to support the text on the page.