Create and navigate a site

- [Instructor] I'm on sites.google.com logged in with my Google account. I already have one complete site listed here, which I could click on, but for now I'm going to create a blank site that we'll build on for the duration of the course. I'll create a site for Wisdom Pets, a fictional veterinary office that also has a built-in vaccination and adoption center. To get started creating a brand new site, click the plus sign that's rainbow colored on the very top left hand side of the screen. In just a moment, it's going to create a site for us. The first thing I'll do is give my site a name. On the top left hand side of the screen, click untitled site. Here's where you can rename it with the name of your own site. I'll call this one "Wisdom Pets" and hit the enter key. The site name is not the same thing as the URL that somebody's going to enter to find your site. You'll be able to specify that at the very end of the course. So this name can be anything you want it to be. Now that we've given it a name, let's go over the interface of Google Sites so that it will become familiar to you while we're doing this course. You can already see where we put in a name, and you can come up here and change it at any time. To get back to the main home screen of Google Sites, click the blue icon on the top left hand side of the screen. To the right of that, you can hover your mouse over all changes saved in Drive to see the version history of your sites. Google Sites are stored in Google Drive so you never have to hit a save button. It saves them automatically. Now these curved arrows are undo and redo for your last action if you made a mistake because it will save. You can also preview what your site looks like on a desktop, tablet, or mobile device. You can click to add editors to share working on the site with you, and I'm going to show you all of this later. Here's where you can access some settings for your sites. And you can also click these three dots to get more things that you can do. In fact, anywhere in Google Sites that you see three dots like this, you can click on them and get a brand new context menu. For example, you can take a tour if you forget the interface. You can view the help files, and make a copy, that is duplicate your site. The publish button is when you're finally ready to publish your site to the world. For now, my site is not live on the web until I click this publish button, which I am definitely not ready to do that. So I can take my time and work on it and get it just right before I have to worry about any potential website visitors seeing it before it's ready. Below this are all the tools to create my site. The insert tab contains things like text boxes and images. I can embed them, and I can add them right from Google Drive. Here's where you can change layouts similar to a PowerPoint presentation. That is how things are arranged on the screen. And directly below that are all the elements that I can insert into my site. For example, a table of contents, a rotating image carousel, dividers, YouTube files, calendars, maps, and any other Google product like Slides, Sheets, and Forms for surveys. At the top of the tabbed interface, I can click pages, and here's where I can add some new pages to my site. For example, I have a homepage and then I could click this plus sign down here to add another one. On the right, I can click themes. This is going to control the color and the font and the general look and feel of my site. And finally in the middle of the page is my actual site itself. If I hover my mouse over a text block, I can see that block outlined in blue. And when I hover my mouse over it, certain context menus will appear. For example, the ability to change an image or the header type will appear. I can also double click inside any white space to bring up items that I can add. We'll be going over these in detail for the rest of the course. Up next, let's choose a theme so that we'll be on our way to designing our site.