Friday, November 12, 2010

Exploring Google:Google Sites

This replaces WikiSpaces and all those other website making companies, because Google Sites lets you make your own website for free!  I mean who wouldn't love making their own website? Of course, like most website companies, you get even more if you buy the Premier Edition, but Google will never leave you with a blank page.  Google provides many free templates and as far as I am toldand have explored Google Sites gives you your custom domain. You can pick it too! I would go on with this, but I really can't explain it better. This is what people are saying about this:


Scott Griepentrog
software developer and owner of http://www.stg.net/
"Google sites is the best thing to hit the web since Google Apps. For a long time I'd been wanting a way to have a more private area, where others could still contribute without having to give them full administrative privileges to my domain - and Sites fits the bill and then some. I've used it to support many varied activities including private notes and conversations with clients, keeping track of my home schooled children's assignments and homework, letting them create their own web pages, collaborating with others on content for books and engineering designs, and even sharing pictures of our new dog with my family. It's easier and faster than a wiki, I can control who can see or contribute to a given site, and it's just downright fun to use! Thank you Google!"


Aslak Grinsted
climate scientisthttp://www.glaciology.net/
"I am a climate scientist and I use Google-Sites to present the research of me and my collaborators. It allows me to maintain a personal presence on the web that i can take with me whereever I go. I particularly appreciate that it is low maintenance, yet has high flexibility through the large variety of Open-Social gadgets available."