In the screen capture shown right, you can see that “Gameboard” displays a different icon than a page.
Instead, it is an icon of overlapping boxes that signals a menu section. You can add subpages as well as hide them from navigation. A search of the site does reveal hidden pages, though.
I. Mini-Lessons
Accessible Learning
Engaged Learning....
In this screenshot, you can see that “Mini-Lessons” is the section name or top level page. Beneath it are sub-pages.
When organizing a Google Sites page with many nested pages in sections, you have the option of keeping sections in alphabetical order. This makes sense. It facilitates your navigation through the ever-scrolling Pages list in new Google Sites.
However, don’t look for an “Alphabetize” button. You will have to maintain the alphabetical order of pages yourself. You can also, as shown in the image above, organize them for convenience sake.
Note that some section pages appear as pages with a corner turned down (viewable), while others are hidden from navigation (crossed out link). Let’s take a closer look at “Hide from Navigation.”
Need to change your home page to reflect a conference or special event? You can use this option to set a particular page as your new temporary home page or “landing page.” This can be great when you want to encourage people to quickly find their way to your website. For example, if you go to http://tceamg.org, you will see my current home page. During a conference, I can set the home page to a tailored site (e.g. TCEA 2018 Convention). Visitors would see that page in lieu of my traditional page with my photo on it.
Have you set up your Sites page the way you want it to look and now wish you could make it the “template” for your sub pages? You have two choices. If you have content on the page, duplicate page to mirror the content on your source page, then make small changes to customize the new page.
This will allow you to change/rename the name of a page, as well as set "Advanced" options. This Advanced option allows you to set a permanent name that designates the location (a.k.a. "custom path") of the page. Since naming is so important (the longer the page name, the longer the website address), you will want to rename a page once you duplicate it.
The add sub page makes a copy of the section page (a.k.a top level page) and applies the banner image or color to the new sub page. This can be a time-saver, especially when you have an image banner for the title.
This option allows you to show or hide the visibility of the page in the Google Sites' navigation menu.
Remove the page from the Google Sites.
As with any web page, remember to keep your images small in size. You can usually resize a picture, then take a screenshot to make it smaller. On Windows, I like to use PixResizer program to get images down to quick loading size.
Avoid scrolling to find pages to link to. Minimize scrolling when trying to link to a page at the bottom of your list of pages. Temporarily move the page/section to the top of the pack, below the Home page. This eliminates scrolling through all the other content in your Sites website without changing the website address for that section or nested pages. When done, move the section/page back.
Create a standard banner for your sections. This assists visitors to a site to recognize their location in a section. For example, I have a standard image that I use for all my Mini-Lesson pages. These pages provide step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish a task.
Embed content from other sites. Have a video? Put it on YouTube or Google Drive, then paste the link while viewing the page. This will make adding video content easy. Use Padlet? Take a snapshot of your Padlet and then link the image, as well as referring text, to the Padlet.
Copy-and-paste content across Sites. You can copy-and-paste content from one new Sites to another in sections. The trick to this is ensuring the site has been shared with you. If not, you will encounter permission errors with images (image will fail to upload).
Locate the embed code on the source site (e.g. Padlet, YouTube, Sway, Vimeo).
Copy the embed code.
Open the Google Sites page.
Click on the Insert when in Page Edit mode.
Click on the Embed option, which now features a place to paste the website address (URL) or embed code.
Paste the embed code from the source site.