Google Sites is a free drag-and-drop website builder and hosting service which enables anyone to create their own website and get it online. Google is in the process of rebuilding Sites, and while this carries on, the platform is available in two flavors.
New Google Sites is, well, the new version of the service. It has a better editor and supports more up-to-date technology (including the ability to create responsive pages), but it’s distinctly short on features.
You can forget about ecommerce or a blogging platform, for instance. Unless you’re a G Suite user, you can only publish sites to a sites.google.com domain (sites.google.com/view/yourname.) You don’t even get any website templates.
The older version of the service is still available as Classic Google Sites. It has many more features, including templates, but most are very dated, there’s no support for building responsive websites, and Classic Sites will eventually stop working when the move to New Google Sites is complete.
Clearly, if you’re looking for stylish designs or high-powered features and functionality, neither version of Sites will work for you. Check our Wix or Weebly instead.
But if you …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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