How To Create A Website Using Google Docs

Get started with Sites

1. Create your site

Next: 2. Update and personalize your site

Let's begin by creating and naming your site.

1.1 Create your site

Note: All Sites are stored in Drive. For more information on using Drive to organize your files, see Get started with Drive.

Create a site from Sites or Drive

1.2 Name your site

When you create a new site, it's added to Drive, just like other Drive files. Sites automatically saves every change you make, but your site isn't public until you publish it.

Name different parts of your site:

Document, site, and page names mapped, top to center

1.3 Select a layout

On the right, click Layouts and choose a different layout for your sections.

Layout options on the right, under "Insert." The site

1.4 Select a background image, header type, and theme

Choose a look for your site. Each theme comes with a preset background, color scheme, and font selection. You can adjust fonts, colors, and the background later, and you can always change the theme after the site is created. If you need to make any changes, click Undo , or Redo.

Options to change image, header type, theme, and font style mapped

1.5 Add, reorder, and nest pages

Add pages for more content. Keep related information together by nesting pages. Nested pages appear as a subtopic of another page.

Add pages:

In the top-right corner, click Pages point to Create .

Choose an option:

Reorder or nest pages:

Click Pages.

Drag a page up or down in the list to reorder it.

Drag a page on top of another page to nest it.

(Optional) To un-nest a page, drag it to the bottom of the list.

Note: You can only nest a page five levels deep.

Choose page options:

Under Pages, select a page and next to it, click More More and choose an option:

Set it as the homepage.

Duplicate the page.

Rename the page.

Create a subpage.

Hide a page or subpage. You can't hide the page that's set as your homepage.

Delete the page from the site. You can't remove the page that's set as your homepage.

Menu options 1, 2, and 3 mapped

1.6 Set up site navigation

If you've more than one page, visitors to your site use the navigation menu to jump to different pages. By default, the navigation menu is at the top of your site. In the top-right corner, click your homepage to see the menu.

You can move the navigation menu to the left side if you want, but you need to have one or more pages on your site to change where it appears.

Select a navigation mode:

Set navigation as top or side

Next: 2. Update and personalize your site

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