Google Sites Education?
Google Sites Education?
Westminster Canterbury
Resident Website
Westminster Canterbury
Resident Website
It is not the purpose of this manual to teach the fundamentals of Google Sites. Such education is readily available by searching for it on the internet. Before anyone is authorized to work with the “LIVE” Resident Website they have the opportunity to learn, develop, apply, and demonstrate their understanding with their own personal and private website.
When using any of the suggested sites do not follow any instructions for the old “Classic” sites. There is a large library of YouTube tutorials to be found by searching. Some are well developed and easy to follow. If you find anything that is hard to follow, find a better one.
To start, just Google “Google Sites” and learn of the large number of lessons available including those in YouTube. These here are some of them.
Remember that you can experiment on your own or a terrace computer independent of the live Resident Website. You should self-demonstrate your learning progress by:
Setting up a home page
Add background
Add pictures of varying sizes
Search your own pictures
Search for on-line pictures using a subject. (e.g. Covid, Virginia, flags, old men, etc.)
Add links to other pages
Add text boxes
Add footers
Modify your site to tell a story. Such stories should use multiple linked pages, pictures, lists, tables, and any other arrangement that is suggested by the live Resident Website. Remember this is a learning activity and you can exaggerate or not. Here are some ideas:
Show your family tree with pictures and captions
Vacation travel
Hobbies
Pets
Cars Owned
Try to replicate selected pages of live Resident Website
The included webpages, supporting spreadsheets, and linkages range from simple to complex. The simplicity/complexity is a function of your training and experience. The following are ideas how you may use to hedge against data problems and loss:
Make a copy of the subject page and introduce your changes thereon. Once tested activate it
Be extremely careful to, never, never, "Unpublish" the site or the site will be deleted.
If you are moving objects on a page it is easy to mess up their placement (slippery little devils). Undo (CTRL-Z) is available at multiple stages which is your premiere step and should be employed quickly before anyone else does a publish.
If you are altering a particular section or sections of a page, copy them and insert again. Thus the web page has the original item and the "work" copy. In other words if their is a premature publish, the original is still available.
There is no harm having the page temporarily published with the original contents and your working area. Such a publish will allow you to test links and appearance for consistency in the old and new areas. Don't get rid of the old areas until the replacement areas are finished and published.
When embedding items into a page you may what some of the features of an embed from another. Go to the example page and copy the embedding code to a text box as a reference on the changing page. You will be able to see how your embed needs to be modified. This is especially handy with spreadsheet embeds that usually have to have enhancing code added.
Remember if you are developing or trying out something "exotic" you can rehearse it on a brand new "unindexed" new page. Once tested and working you can copy it to the original page of your project.
Remember that prior versions of each web page are available for reinstallation
Test all links without your editing credentials active When including MyDrive elements make sure those elements are not locked to Published Viewers
The whole pitch here is to be cautious and be prepared for mishaps. You may have other safe methods you can add. One other thing. If an entire page is inadvertently trashed, it can be recovered from trash.