Learn how to easily build a website using Google Sites. Part of #DigitalTuesdays

1. Create a
website with
Google Sites
#DigitalTuesdays

2. •Why create a website?
•Designing your website (an introduction)
› stakeholders, objectives and requirements
› corridor tests, interviews, surveys & card sorts
› personas and scenarios
•Using Google Sites
› adding pages and inserting elements
› writing for the web - what and how
(user stories, the inverted pyramid, and
making sure that content is accessible)
Today’s session

3. •The capacity to choose applications having
assessed their benefits and constraints
•An understanding of digital media production
as a technical practice
•The capacity to design and/or create new digital
artefacts
•The capacity to communicate effectively in
digital media and spaces
•The capacity to develop and project a positive
digital identity or identities and to manage
digital reputation
Building Digital Capabilities
https://digitalcapability.jisc.ac.uk/

4. •Is a website what you need…
•How do you want to structure the information
that you’re presenting (and what is this info)?
•How frequently do you plan on adding new
content?
•If you’re adding a lot of new information, and
you want that to be most prominent, a blog may
be more appropriate (you can have both).
•Estimated to be over 1.75 billion websites,
less that 200 million of which are active.
Why create a website?

5. •What are you trying to achieve?
› Stakeholders, objectives and requirements
› Identify one type of user that you think may visit
•What are your visitors trying to achieve?
› Corridor tests, interviews, surveys and card-sorts
› When we’re building the site, ask your neighbour
what they think if you need an opinion
•Designing for your visitors/users:
› Personas and scenarios
› Complete the Persona User Profile document
Designing your website
i.e. designing for your visitors

6. Using
Google Sites

7. Personal: www.joshuapomeroy.com

8. Professional: www.jivrus.com

9. Promotional: www.flaviociabattoni.com/eng

10. Education: www.petersfieldhigh.com

11. Research: www.xchu.rocks

12. 1. Login to Google Sites
2. Click here to add new site

14. Point and click to insert
new page elements and
edit exiting ones

15. Click on Pages tab and
+ to add new pages.
Hover for more options.

16. Point and click to insert new page
elements and edit exiting ones

17. Click on Settings cog for
more options

18. Click on Publish button at the top of page,
enter desired web address and Publish.

19. •What are you writing about?
•Is it easy to scan/skim?
› using headings and the inverted pyramid
•Create user stories to help you focus on what
visitors to your site want and need.
› write a user story for one of your web pages
As a…
I would like…
So that…
•Creating accessible content for your site:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/tel/accessibility
Writing for the web

20. •Want to help improve the Library website?
•Participants will receive a £5 thank you voucher
•To sign up, and for further information, email:
library@sussex.ac.uk
User testing