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In the section 'Sites Outside of Google Apps':
in the more actions --> manage site section
Web Address tab
(need ability to modify DNS CNAME info for your domain)
Update DNS records
Here's a video too.
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Weebly is awesome. It has a wonderfully intuitive website creator.
I don't know if they have kept adding features at the same pace they did a year ago, but their applications is quite well-rounded and they have a lot of templates to choose from (+ the editor).
Hope this helps!
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While I'm impressed that your organization would rather use Markdown than a WYSIWYG editor, I'm afraid that Google sites does not currently support Markdown syntax. You could write the text in Markdown locally using an editor like Textmate, and use a bundle or a script to convert that to HTML, and then paste the HTML into your site (Google Sites will let ...
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The following code retrieves the users, present within the Google Apps Domain:
function doGet() {
var app = UiApp.createApplication();
var users = UserManager.getAllUsers();
var flexTable = app.createFlexTable().setBorderWidth(1);
for (var i=0, len=users.length; i<len; i++) {
var user = users[i];
flexTable.setWidget(parseInt(i), 0, ...
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Actually, I found the answer myself. One can use it as a Public Wiki by using this trick.
Create a Google Group so anyone can join: http://groups.google.com/groups/create?lnk=gcphp
Invite the Group to your Site as a collaborator using its email address, e.g. MyGroup@googlegroups.com
Put a link to your Google Group on your Site, preferably on your ...
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Try intitle: operator.
The query intitle:term restricts results to documents containing
term in the title. For instance, [ flu shot intitle:help ] will
return documents that mention the word “help” in their titles, and
mention the words “flu” and “shot” anywhere in the document (title or
not).
Note: There must be no space between the ...
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You cannot add JavaScript directly to your Google Sites page. You can, however add a Google Gadget that has JavaScript in it. You can try the Google Gadget Builder. You may not get the result that you want, however, since your JavaScript is not valid. For example, your statements with (x)html elements will cause the JS engine to error.
var <strong ...
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Google Sites automatically adds rel="nofollow" to all external links. There is no way to override or remove this - Google Support Post.
Internal links (links to pages within your own site) are no affected by this - you can add rel="me" to internal links and it won't be stripped out / replaced.
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If you're the site owner, then you're able to check if the footer can show the sign-in option.
Go to the site and press the key combination g then m or choose from the more pull-down menu of the Manage site option. Then select site layout:
Followed by system footer:
If the sign-in option is ticked, then it will not show:
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One other option with Sites itself: Create a new page of type "Announcements." While a bit "bloggish" I think it could work as forum too. Each of your forum posts would be an announcement post. Clicking through to each post gives the option to add comments.
Not glorious, but it does keep it all in Sites. :-)
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Do you need it to be inline (display on in a page along with other content), or is it okay to be on a separate page?
I would suggest saving your resume as a PDF (note, this is good practice in general) and ensuring that it looks good in Google's PDF previewer. You can then attach it to any page in Google sites and reference it by URL.
If you need it to be ...
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After the suggestive comment from Vidar S. Ramdal, I decided to practically test whether different versions of the same file count towards total storage.
There can be three scenarios for this,
Only the latest version counts towards storage.
Total size of all the versions counts towards storage.
Difference of various versions counts towards storage.
I ...
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My first attempt to Google on this topic yielded in a first hit: search result LATEX Google Sites.
On the following two websites, it is explained how to show the LATEX on Google Sites:
Use LaTeX on Google Site
Google's LaTeX
See snapshot of last reference:
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Your URL and format for adding an external gadget to your iGoogle page will be something like this:
http://fusion.google.com/add?moduleurl=http%3A//www.domain.com/path/gadget.xml
I think as long as your user is logged into the correct google account/site all should go well.
Edit: The user following the link to add such a gadget must be logged in to google ...
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As you have mentioned, I think issues arise when users log in using the Gmail account when they should be using their Google Apps account.
There is a handy link that you can send them that will help them troubleshoot this kind of issue.
http://www.steegle.com/websites/google-sites-troubleshooters/accessing-editing
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You can also use CodeWrapper. It's a gadget that allows you to paste your javascript into it and run it as a google gadget, basically allowing you to enter the javascript into the html without it being blocked. Go to Insert > more gadgets > search for codewrapper.
It should solve your problem. It's solved a few of mine already.
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I am not sure what you are trying to do with your script, but have you looked too see if you can accomplish what you want with a Google Apps Script? It looks like using Google App Scripts within Google Sites is pretty easy. Here is a tutorial - Getting Started with Apps Script and Google Sites.
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Can I map a Google Site linked to a Google Apps account to a domain not managed by the Apps account?
The only way to get Google Sites to map a domain name that's not a subdomain of the Google Apps account that the site is bound to is to create the site itself from an account that's not managed by Google Apps.
Basically, I had to create a new Google Account (signing up for a new Google Mail account is the easiest way) and create the site using that account. ...
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Wow, no answer here in so long!
In order to make a tab show up in the navigation menu of your Sites pages, you will need to add it manually. Creating a new page doesn't add it to the navigation automatically.
Go to:
More > Edit Site Layout > Click the navigation menu > Add Page
You can then select the page you want and it should show up in your navigation ...
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The following piece of code does the trick:
function onOpen() {
// get active spreadsheet
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
// create menu
var menu = [
{name: "Add active user", functionName: "addUser"}
];
// add to menu
ss.addMenu("Add user", menu);
}
function addUser() {
// get active spreadsheet
var ss = ...
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It is possible simply by configuring your DNS settings for your domain. Google has support for it and it guides you through rather clearly to redirect your 2nd level domain to the 3rd level domain.
Note that you need access to change your domain's DNS settings and Google Apps settings for this to actually work.
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You may want to consider using the service DropBox instead.
You are really set on Google Sites you create a sub-site with your files set to non public (requires login). yYou have to manually enter who has permissions to view the page however. You can also do page level permissions and select which emails can either view or edit certain pages. You would ...
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There is an official tool by the google liberation front to import and export google sites:
From the website: "The downloaded site will not be styled and will not include the chrome and is completely unstyled, but will contain all of the content included in the site."
http://www.dataliberation.org/google/sites
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https://developers.google.com/google-apps/sites/docs/1.0/developers_guide_protocol#CreatingContent
If you set up an Oath account, you can use the Google Sites API to automatically upload hundreds of web pages.
https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/using_cURL
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/source/browse/samples/sites/sites_example.py
...
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if it's all in folders you're going to have to go with ftp hosting from GoDaddy then up the site and either edit code or upload all future changes. If you are using Dreamweaver this method is pretty easy
If you want to migrate your old non-Google Sites site to Google Sites you have to manually build each page. after it's built you can 'back it up' in 2 ...
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You can't import entire pages into Google Sites because of Google's restriction on code. However, you can copy-paste the content (not interactions) through the regular Google Sites editor. (See Google's Help Center)
There's also no export or backup option available.
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Do you have a link to the site in question? Are you using the 'navigation' widget in the Site Layout or your own text nav?
If it's your own text nav you can set up a table then copy paste the nav onto each page, it's very easy to get rid of the lines on Google Sites tables.
If it's the nav widget consider make sub navigation on all of your main category ...
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This is accomplished by setting max-width or width property in CSS on the enclosing element (usually, navigation links are enclosed in <li>). However, Google Sites doesn't give access to the template's CSS so there's no way to do multi-line navigation links.
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Dnbrv is correct that the data needs to be indexed for search engines
I'd look through your analytics and if other users are actually seeing these timestamps, and it really bothers you, you could always take the search box off under 'Site Layout'
The analytics won't lie, just because someone could potentially see this info doesnt mean anyone actually is
Jon
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Not sure you can, but here are two possible hacks:
Compression - Use an archiving program like Winzip to condense all your files into one folder on your hard drive and then upload. No need to upload files one at a time in this way.
Open several tabs on your browser and upload each separately.
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