Google Sites Web Design News

Howdy Google Siters, Google have added a new feature recently which allows you to hide 'Sign In, Recent Changes or the Print Page' links from the automated Google Sites System Footer. Just log into your site > More Actions > Site Layout > Customise System Footer Links > decide which links to hide (unfortunately you can not remove them all just the ones I mentioned earlier but it's a start!) > click ok > click save changes Let me know if you have any problems. For More Articles Visit My Site www.webprincess.co.uk/ Beckystar aka Web Princess

Google has been rolling out some nice updates to Google Sites and while everyone is "a-twitter" about mobile render of Google Sites there's also some lesser recognized updates. 1. Google Promotes Adsense Usage with Google Sites I found out this little button appeared on my drop-down bar for More Actions and basically I've been accidentally clicking it instead of Manage Site (Picture 1). Anyways, let's explore this. Click the button and you taken to a redesigned Adsense page just for Google Sites. Google is encouraging Google Sites designers to use Adsense. Obviously intranet / project management Sites are not intended to be breeding grounds for Ads, therefore Google is implying that public Google Sites should be using their Ads. If Google wants to make money, it stands to reason that they want to make Google Sites better for web designers. My conclusion? Google Sites will continue to improve as a platform for public websites. Our first evidence of this is ...

Now, we can take a closer look around the footer of Google sites. I need a custom footer like this, So I created an image like this. Now I need to upload this image into Google sites. Somebody asked me about the difference between uploading as 'background image' and 'wrapper background image'. I'll show you the difference. This is the Original image: When I upload the image as 'background image, the result is: See the top. So, look at the same image uploaded as 'wrapper background image': OK. Now it clarified, right? Come to the point. We need a custom footer image like the first original image. I did upload in as a 'wrapper background image'. The result is good. Look: But, when the content is too long, or in the announcement page, it looks odd. See, This is not we want, right? So, I did two images like this: One, Another one is, Then, I upload the first image as 'wrapper background image', and the second one as ' ...