There are many places that provide
hosting for free,
but most of them make "charge" by displaying advertising on the
site, restricting the space for user content and annoying site visitors.
Google Sites:
has no advertising (so far)
is relative easy to use (see Google sites
help and brief instructions below)
permit the choice of making the site visible
to the world or selective email addresses
Follow the steps below to create a simple site
of Google Sites:
Complete the form with your email and
password - write these down - you must remember them
Open you email and confirm that the email you supplied is valid
Once you have a Google Account Click Create
Site
Your website address will be sites.google.com/sites/your-login-name so make
your-site-name as short and memorable as possible.
Note that every decision about the site (layout, sharable,
etc.) except the your-site name, which is part of the URL, web address (http://sites.google.com/sites/your-site-name) can be changed.
Choose that your-site-name carefully,
it should be short and relatively easy to remember.
since the world can see your site, change your address to 123
Main Street, you should keep the city and state.
Change your phone to (123) 555-1212. Leave your email so folks can get in
touch with you.
Copy and Paste your Word resume
Save your Word format resume to a pdf for that
it cannot be change. Upload it as an attachment to the Resume page.
Make your email into a clickable link
Add the Resume page to the Navigation
Share your site with me and others as viewers (they
can only look, or the world, if they find it). Share it with some
folk as collaborators who can add
comments, attachments and change content.
Optionally add more pages and try more stuff
Create a new page
type a page title
type a subtitle
type main content
type a footer
change the font face
change the font sizes
change the look (on top right)
change the layout
save your work (on top right)
preview your work & close the preview window
add a few gadgets (on the bottom right) for
example
the current date and time
a Google Map
Weather
a Wikipedia search
a countdown
local gas prices
a PacMan, Blocks, Invader or Frogger game
Horoscopes
they keep adding stuff so show us stuff we haven't
seen!
important - put a link to your home page by clicking on
Link (on the left)
type Home or "go back home" or whatever text you want
to be the link
with Your pages highlighted on the left click on
your home page
important - put a link from the home page to this page by Clicking on
"Back to Site Manager
click on the icon for your Home page to open it
click on Link
type "my 2nd page" or whatever better title you want
to be the link
with your pages highlighted on the left click on the
title of your second page
Add some pictures
click where you want the image
if the image is on the web
right click on it
click Save Picture As
put it on M: at school or C:\My Document/My Pictures at home
once the picture is on a local disk
click on Image (on the left)
browse to the picture
send me an email with the URL
http://sites.google.com/your-site-name
Share your site with me and others as viewers (they can
only look, or the world, if they find it) or as collaborators who can add
comments, attachments and change content.
