Google site set up

User guidehttps://sites.google.com/site/sitesetupguide/home

Inscription With Google Sites, you can easily create and update your own site. Google Sites allows you display a variety of information in one place- including videos, slideshows, calendars, presentations, attachments, and text - and share it for viewing or editing with a small group, an - entire organization, or the world. You always control who has access to your site.

Here's what you can do with Google Sites:

• Customize your site; • Create sub-pages to keep your content organized; • Choose page types: webpage, announcements, file cabinet• Have a central location for your web content and offline files

To start using Google Sites, connect with your Google account (or create a new account)

The modification toolbar provides you the tools which you need to modify your site.

You can:

• Undelete modification• Modify size and police font• Modify text• Create links• Create list• Indent definition• Align text• Edit HTML source

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To start to add objects and applications to your site, simply to click on Modifying the page, Inserting, then to select the object or the application to be inserted.

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Format Module

Table Module

Layout Module5 Site management Module6

Complete user guide:

https://sites.google.com/site/sitesetupguide/home

GOOGLE WEBSITE MANAGEMENT

Once the website created, go to the website address

• Click on Sign in

• Insert the email: mysite@gmail.com• Insert the password: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

• You are connected when you see appearing these icons

Edit page

New page

More tools

To add a file as attached:

• Click on More and Manage site

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• Click on attachments

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You have all the listing of the attachments available.Possibilities: replace / rename / move / delete andupload.Click on upload to integrate a new file

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Your google website allow 100 Mb of documentsGoogle drive allow 5 GbDropbox allow 2 Gb

7,1 Gb space available for your documents

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Select the file to be upload

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File has been added to the list

To delete it, click in the box and on deleteSame process for the other possibilities

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Copy the shortcut by right clicking on download

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Click on Mywebsite (here the sample of Mauritania)… to go back to the homepage and click on page you want to update

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Click on Edit page

Type the text which referring to the fileSelect the text to apply different option following:

• Color• Size• Font

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Link

To link with the attached file, select the text and then click on the icon Link

Select Web address and paste the link in the “Link to this URL”.Tick the box open this link in a new box and click on OK

Save the page

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The link is now active for download

To edit a page:

Click on icon edit page

The editor bar appears

Undo

Redo

Font

Size

Bold

Italic

Underline

Text color

Couleur d’arrière plan du texte

Link

Numbered list

Bullet liste

Increase indent

Decrease indentAlign left

Align center

Align right

Click on save once you created and updated your objects

Page layoutInsert table

Edit HTML source

Insert common objectAnd Google application

To add a page :

Click on the icone New page

Name your pagePut page at the top level by default

Click on create

Click on save

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Click on More and page settings

Unselect checkbox:

• Show link to sub-pages• Allow attachments• Allow comments

Click on Save

To integrate the page created in the

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Click on More and Manage site

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Click on Site Layout

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Click on Edit horizontal nav content

Click on add page

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Select My new page and click OK

6Use the buttons move up / down to organize your page. Buttons indent / outdent allow to integrate your page inside another one and organize a pulldown menu.

Click on OK to validate.

Page link

Page integrated in the horizontal navigation bar

Page integrated as sub-page in a pulldown menu

This option is defined at previous module 6 by using indent / outdent buttons

Lien inserted in pageDonnées WASH spécifiques

Click on Save and my website (here WASH Mauritanie as sample)

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Add an event on the Google calendar (in connected mode)

Click on : Right / down of your calendar 1

A new window is openClick on the date and timing where you want to insert a new event

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Click on edit event

4Insert information :

• Title• Time• Location• Description• Event color

Click on save and close thewindow

Refresh the homepage

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