Mezzing Up Google+... this one's complicated.

So What Am I On About?

Have you ever heard of Google Sites? Well the latest thing I've Mezzed Up Google+ and how to make a personalised space with the Sites section. You can also use Google sites for any sort of website. To blog, to vlog, or even to promote you YouTube channel!

So here's how to make one. You will need a laptop, internet access and a Google account.

HOW TO MAKE A PERSONALISED SPACE ONLINE

Step 1) Log onto Google and go into More and then down to Even More.

Step 2) Now go down to Sites. and click on it. Sometimes it comes up with a different page for Even More. I don't know why. :/

Step 3) Next click on CREATE and fill in the options. You CAN give the website different title than the URL.

 

Step 4) Once you have your website, use the edit button to edit the Homepage with a personalised message to yourself such as "Welcome back to Your Place!"

These are the buttons that you will need to know about. They'll come in later.

 

Step 5) Click the New page button and make a the first page. Anything you like. Add text and html codes.

 

Step 6) This next part is a bit more complicated. :/

 

Go into Share. This page should come up.

 

 

 

 

Now click on Change in Who Can Access. This should let you change it to Private so that only you can see it.

 

Step 7) Go back to your website with the button on the left with the arrow and the website's title. You can now make new pages and add stuff to your website.

 

Make a video page, a music page, a page with links to your favourite websites and a page full of your favourite images. See EXTRA for help.

 

Just to be helpful, here's an example. It's not so personal or got much stuff in but that's because it's for you to see and I don't want to show you my personal stuff.

 

CLICK HERE FOR AN EXAMPLE 

 

EXTRA:

 

How to change the background: Go into More and down to Manage Site. Now go to Colours and Fonts on the left and click on either Page Background Colour or Page Background Image to choose a colour or an image.

 

How to embed a video into the website: First go onto YouTube or Vimeo and find the video you would like to embed. Have this in a separate tab to the website. Then right click on the video and click on Copy Embed Code. Go back into your website, click edit page on the page you want and then click on HTML at the top. Once that's up, make sure you're in the typing box and click enter to get on a new line. Now right click and click paste to get the embed code into the HTML. Click enter again and then click UPDATE.

 

Go to this link for other things you can put into the website. These are HTML codes which you put into the HTML box to add special features to your website such as games, special effects and moving icons.

 

http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/