Digital Maestro March 28, 2016 | Page 11

Creating A Blank Site Google Sites is a free web page content creation and publishing tool from Google. To create a site all you need is a free Google account, which you can get by creating a gmail account. Google Sites comes with some templates which we can use to quickly create a web site in minutes. Maybe not minutes, but it’s very quick and easy. There are several advantages to creating sites with Google. The most important advantage is that you don’t need to know any HTML, CSS, Javascript or other coding language to develop a site. If you have basic word processing skills, then you have the necessary skills to begin building a web site. Other advantages include the close integration with all the other Google apps and services like Calendar, Drive and YouTube. This means we can easily share a calendar on our site, share files from our drive and display videos from YouTube on any of our pages. Placing these elements on our page is as easy as inserting the item we want and Googl H