Pimp My Site: Customization Options for Google Sites
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Want to make your Google Site look less like a stock Google Site? Try these custom tweaks to add flair, design and order to your existing site and make the web a more beautiful place for everyone!
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Pimp My Site: Customization Options for Google Sites
- 1. Google Confidential and Proprietary Pimp My Site: Customizing Google Sites Jonathan Wylie Technology Consultant Grant Wood AEA Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer Web: http://jonathanwylie.com Email: jwylie@gwaea.org Twitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie
- 2. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie The World’s First Website (c.1991) http://goo.gl/ZGCAf
- 3. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Home Sweet Home ● Hide the Home label on your home page. It should be obvious to visitors that they are already Home! ● More > Page Settings > Uncheck Show Page Title.
- 4. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie No Logos Here ● You can remove the school's Google Apps logo from the header. Go to More > Edit Site Layout > Click on the logo > Select No Logo > OK
- 5. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie No Comment ● Remove the comment box and/or attachment links at the bottom of a page Go to More > Page Settings > Uncheck Allow Comments AND Allow Attachments
- 6. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Remove the Search Bar ● If your site is well organized, you don't need the search bar. Remove it by going to More > Manage Site > Configure Search > Uncheck Enable Search > OK
- 7. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Add a Custom Footer ● Want to add a disclaimer, contact details, or school policy to the bottom of every page? More > Edit Site Layout > Custom Footer
- 8. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Lose the Links ● You can’t hide them all, but you can get rid of some of Google’s links at the bottom of your site. More > Edit Site Layout > Click on the links in the footer
- 9. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Caution: Wide Load! ● Make your Google Site look the same on all monitors by fixing the width. ● More > Edit Site Layout > Custom > Enter a number like 960px > Enter > Close
- 10. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Align Horizontal Navigation ● Google recently added the ability to align pages in horizontal navigation to the left, right or centre. More > Manage Site > Themes, Colors & Fonts > Horizontal Navigation > Layout > Alignment
- 11. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Favicons: Everyone’s Favorite!
- 12. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie The New Themes, Colors & Fonts ● Google has changed the Colors & Fonts menu, added Themes and renamed it Themes, Colors & Fonts. Use this to customize many more things.
- 13. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Google Themes Get Better ● The stock Google Sites themes are not known for their style, but a new theme called Ski is a big improvement
- 14. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Adobe Kuler - Palette Picker http://kuler.adobe.com/explore
- 15. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Eye Dropper Extension for Chrome http://goo.gl/R9dsA ● Use the Eye Dropper tool for Chrome to sample any color you find on the web and use it on your Google Site
- 16. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Colored Backgrounds ● Change the background color of your site. More > Manage Site > Themes, Colors & Fonts > Background > Color
- 17. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Textured Backgrounds ● 30 Free Seamless Background Textures ● Add a textured background to your site. More > Manage Site > Themes, Colors & Fonts > Background > Image > Select Image > Options > Repeat Horizontal and Vertical
- 18. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Custom Headers
- 19. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie How to Make Custom Headers
- 20. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Add Stylish Sliders! ● Ever wished for a stylish slider on your Google Sites homepage? See this tutorial from Steegle.com http://goo.gl/ThsPn
- 21. Jonathan Wylie - Grant Wood AEATwitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie Remember the Template Gallery ● Try customizing a template from the template gallery, or backwards engineering some ideas for a site of your own.
- 22. Google Confidential and Proprietary Pimp My Site: Customizing Google Sites Jonathan Wylie Technology Consultant Grant Wood AEA Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer Web: http://jonathanwylie.com Email: jwylie@gwaea.org Twitter: @jonathanwylie Google+: +Jonathan Wylie