New Feature - Customise Your Google Sites SYSTEM Footer Links

Howdy Google Siters,

Google have added a new feature recently which allows you to hide 'Sign In, Recent Changes or the Print Page' links from the automated Google Sites System Footer.

Just log into your site > More Actions > Site Layout > Customise System Footer Links > decide which links to hide (unfortunately you can not remove them all just the ones I mentioned earlier but it's a start!) > click ok > click save changes

Let me know if you have any problems.

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An Deeper Look at Recent Google Sites Updates

Google has been rolling out some nice updates to Google Sites and while everyone is "a-twitter" about mobile render of Google Sites there's also some lesser recognized updates.

1. Google Promotes Adsense Usage with Google Sites

I found out this little button appeared on my drop-down bar for More Actions and basically I've been accidentally clicking it instead of Manage Site (Picture 1). Anyways, let's explore this. Click the button and you taken to a redesigned Adsense page just for Google Sites.

Google is encouraging Google Sites designers to use Adsense. Obviously intranet / project management Sites are not intended to be breeding grounds for Ads, therefore Google is implying that public Google Sites should be using their Ads. If Google wants to make money, it stands to reason that they want to make Google Sites better for web designers.

My conclusion? Google Sites will continue to improve as a platform for public websites. Our first evidence of this is mobile rendering of Google Sites. Just a little button can mean so much.

Picture 1 - "Sign Up for Adsense" indeed

Google's Ads are taking over the Internet, including your Google Sites - but that's a good thing

2. Customize System Footer Links

It has been nice that Google Sites has been unobtrusive for the most part, limiting their required links to the very bottom of the page in small font. However, those links can give visitors the wrong idea thinking they can sign in to your website. Public websites are again being highlighted here with this update. If anything those links are nice for private users. Now you limit the footer links to "Terms" "Report Abuse" and "Powered by Google Sites" - not bad.

Web Designers can hide it all...almost

That was nice of Google.

3. Mobile Rendering of Google Sites

I have not been able to really experience this. It is still a beast to even attempt to edit a Google Sites on my Ipad 2. I don't have a Droid or iPhone, so if a visitor can enlighten us on the impact of this update, please comment.

Tip - Creating a Footer

Now, we can take a closer look around the footer of Google sites.
I need a custom footer like this,

So I created an image like this. Now I need to upload this image into Google sites.

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Somebody asked me about the difference between uploading as 'background image' and 'wrapper background image'.
I'll show you the difference.

This is the Original image:
When I upload the image as 'background image, the result is:

See the top.
So, look at the same image uploaded as 'wrapper background image':

OK. Now it clarified, right?

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Come to the point.
We need a custom footer image like the first original image.
I did upload in as a 'wrapper background image'. The result is good. Look:

But, when the content is too long, or in the announcement page, it looks odd.
See,

This is not we want, right?
So, I did two images like this: One,

Another one is,

Then, I upload the first image as 'wrapper background image', and the second one as ' background image'.
See the specification:

Now it's done. Look at the results!