Google Sites: design a website template according to your style

12/07/2021

Agenda

Quick summary

In addition to ten Templates existing website Built for common website uses, you can now distribute custom templates within your organization. You can create and share templates that work best for how you display and share information in your organization. In addition, your colleagues can easily access custom templates, allowing them to quickly adapt and use them as needed. This reduces the time spent formatting and structuring your site, giving you more time to focus on implementing ideas.

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Additional details only

Share previews of your templates with colleagues, previews are a quick and easy way to share prototyped web pages with your team without necessarily submitting a web page to the template library on your domain. Just add “/template/preview” after the site ID on the URL. This will allow any user with read or edit permissions to view a draft site or create a copy of it. Note that users with published viewer permission cannot preview the template.

Expanded language support in Google Sites Web templates:

Besides 16 languages currently supported, you can now use existing website templates by the the following additional languages:

English – Australia
Filipino
Hindi
Indonesian
Korean language
Polish language
Simplified Chinese
Turkish
Vietnamese

Getting started

Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating Custom Drive templates.
End Users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about How to create a document template? and create website from template.

Rollout pace

Rapid release domain: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting June 24, 2021
Scheduled release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting July 19, 2021

Availability

Available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Frontline, and nd Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers
Not available to customers Google Workspace Business Starter

Source: Gimasys