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Get a Google Web Site with Google Sites

By Linda Roeder, About.com

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Start Your First Google Sites Page

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Once you've chosen your theme and set up your Google Sites website, you're ready to start building your homepage. Click on "Edit Page" to start.

Give your homepage a name and then explain to your readers what your website is all about. Tell them what they'll find on your website and what your website has to offer them.

If you want to change the way your text looks on the page you can do it by using any of the tools in the Google Sites toolbar. You can do any of these things to the text on your webpage:

  • Change the font style

  • Change the font size

  • Make your text bold, italic or underlined

  • Change the font color

  • Highlight the text

  • Add links to anywhere on the Web

  • Add numbered or bulleted lists

  • Indent

  • Right, center or left align

When you click "Save" your first Google Sites Web page will be finished. To see the way it looks to your readers copy the Web address of the page, found in the address bar of your browser. Sign out of Google. Now paste the address back into the bar and hit enter on your keyboard.

Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of a Google Sites website.

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