Monday, June 6, 2011

Thing #13 Create your own website using Google apps

Well, Thing #13 has taken me nearly a month as work has been so frantic but I'm finally on it and ta-da:

https://sites.google.com/a/staff.westminster.ac.uk/anna-s-23-things-site/home

I present my website on the subject of the Polytechnic Chalets in Luzern. The website should be visible publically to anyone who has the link so please let me know if it doesn't work.

As instructed I've created a home page, added two pages below, embedded a video, news and a widget. And all together it took me about half an hour!

Prior to this task, I wasn't awar of the possibility of creating mini websites in Google and I have to say I'm impressed. It reminds me of ye older Geocities websites, but infinitely more user-friendly.

I can definitely see a use for this in a work environment. We have recently been redesigning our web-pages and I mocked it all up in Word to send to the web team. It would have been a lot easier to create a little draft site in google and send them the link to that, and I shall definitely use this for proposed future micro-sites.
It would also be a great way of sharing information and images in a structured, hierarchical way, without clogging up people's inboxes.

So, bigs thumbs up for google sites.