Topic: Google Sites now open to all

[Clive]

Google Sites, an application to help groups create a collaborative website, is now available for anyone to use.

First launched back in February, Google Sites is part of the Google Apps platform and lets teams create a site where editing rights can be shared between people.

"Now we've made it easy for anyone to set up a website to share all types of information - team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, you name it - in one place, for a few people, a group or the world," said Google engineering manager Andrew Zaeske.

You don't need complicated programming knowledge or web design skills to create a site, according to Google.

You can also embed content from other Google services such as YouTube, Picasa, Google Docs and Google Calendar, and you can upload files of any type.

Signing up to the standard edition of Google Apps is free though there is a Premier Edition which costs $50 (about £25) per user, per year and offers more storage capacity.

The Google Sites interface is currently only available in English but you can add content in any language you wish.


http://sites.google.com

[sam]

cool, that could be quite useful.

[Rik]

I wonder if you can host forums on it.

[Clive]

I expect the Google banner would be far bigger than the IDNET one we have!   

[Simon]

Ours is quite subtle, compared to most!

[sam]

the sites look quite good, google dont need to advertise when its something.googlesites.com/sites/something

[Rik]

It's never stopped them yet, Sam.