Google Sites and Chrome for Dummies

by Ryan Teeter, Karl Barksdale

Curious about Google Sites and how team collaboration Web sites can help you share documents online from various locations? Curious about Google's new Chrome browser? "Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies" has what you want to know!Today, Google is so much more than another word for "search." "Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies" shows you how to create great collaborative Web sites with Google Sites and surf the Web with the super-fast Google Chrome browser. Find out how they work with other Google Apps, too. You'll learn to: Take advantage of free hosting, free tools, and a simple, straightforward interface with Google SitesSet up a Google account or Google Apps accountCreate wiki sites that let coworkers collaborate on projects or keep family members up to dateUse Google gadgets to keep track of projects, manage calendars and documents, or display photosIntegrate documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other Google Apps into your siteWork with Contact List, Google Talk, and Google Chat, and handle e-mail with GmailDownload and install the speedy Google Chrome browserInstall browser plug-ins, enable offline access to Google Docs, and manage misbehaving tabs

You'll even find instructions and examples to help you plan sites for personal and business use, plus a sample college course site. With advice from "Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies, " you can make collaboration easy and have the high-speed Web at your fingertips.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference

464 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 27, 2009

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is such a random book. Sites and Chrome? The coverage was very uneven -- six parts for Sites and one part for Chrome. And the parts on Sites weren't even all on Sites itself -- a lot was on things like Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc. --- all those fun things you can ADD to Google Sites.

I would have prefered to have seen a shorter book on JUST Google Sites that included less "click here, click there, do this, do that" sort of directions, and something that got into the theory of how to build a website - something like "How to build a website using Google Sites."

[Eric Phetteplace · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read this hoping to pick up a few Chrome tips but it was useless. This is largely my fault--I should have figured a "for dummies" book was too simple, and reading about software that's undergone about 8 releases since the book's publication is not smart either--but this book still could have done better. For one, it was clearly written for Windows users only, with no discussion of other platforms or Mac keyboard shortcuts. Developer's tools go unmentioned. Outdated features, like Google Gears, are discussed. I guess, for browsers, you have to know what you're looking for and search on the web, not turn to print.