DESIGN AND HOST YOUR VERY OWN WEBSITE ~ Amazing facts

Ever wanted to create a website for your personal business or simply just for fun? If yes then here is the perfect solution for you. Using Google sites, a building and hosting tool, you can do this from comfort of your browser.

By-vinayak-kaushik

With the outreach of the internet today, the best way to reach out to your target audience is by making full use of this technology. Whether it’s your personal website or a site for your home business a website is really great because of its global reach. But what if you do not have any knowledge on how to create and host a website? Here is a solution from Google that provides you with the tool and resources that you need to create and host your website with relative ease. This service allows you to create not only plain text websites, but also media rich websites with the option to embed your websites with image and videos.

This convenient and easy to use online tool allows you to create your websites with just a click of a button. You do not need any knowledge of HTML or any other programming language creating and maintaining your website is as easy as editing a document. With easily accessible buttons on the toolbar, your basic formatting and layout needs are taken care off. Loads of customization options are available to give your site the exact look and feel you always wanted to give.

Alternatively, you can choose one of the many themes provided to bring out the central ideas of your site. Not only this, you can also embed your pages with other Google tools like calendars, documents, spreadsheet, presentation and lot more.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS SUPPORT:

Google analytics is an extremely useful tool which helps you track how many people visit your site, which page gets the most visitors, and keywords present on your website are drawing people to your site. It provides you this information in the form of easy to read graphs and report.

This is useful especially if you create a site for your business. Using analytic’s sophisticated and easy to use tools you can even find out which geographic area your visitors come from. To use Google Analytics on your google site, all you have to do is sign-in to the Analytics website at “www.google.com/analytics/“ and sign-in using your Google ID. You will be given a Tracking ID, enter this ID in the textbox provided under the ‘other stuff’ tab in the “setting” section after enabling Analytics on your site. Once you have done this, all your pages will be tracked by Google analytics. It works great for both public and private sites.

SHARING YOUR SITE

Google sites gives you complete freedom of specifying who does what with your website. For starters, you can choose whether you want the site to be viewable only by a certain groups of people that you know or the entire world at the time of creating the site, you can use this feature if you’re uploading your website for the first time.

You can also send invitation to several people to visit your site as well as give them different levels of permission to view the webpage. There are three permissions you can choose from. You can either give permission of an “owner” , “collaborators”, or “visitors”.

To invite people simply enter their e-mail into the text area provided or select people from contact list.

If you later want to revoke any of the permissions, simply click the “remove” link that appears at the side of each name in the list. You can even revert your site to private by clearing the “make it Public” checkbox under the advance permission.

USE YOUR OWN DOMAIN

If you want your website to appear more professional you may consider changing the URL your website uses. Instead of using the site.google.com domain name which will appear in the URL of all of your pages, you can replace it with your domain name that you wish to use. Doing so, Google site will automatically map and redirect your public website to your own domain.

You can add your own domain as your websites URL through the “Web Addresses” tab from the “Settings” page. Add URL of the domain you want the website to be accessed through in the “Add a web address”. Textbox and click “Add”.

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