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Google Apps Reseller & Google Sites Help - steegle.com. How To Set Up A Google Store In Minutes. Last week, Google released yet another gadget that may win them friends with small business owners. It’s called the Google Checkout store gadget and it essentially allows you to use Google Checkout and Google Docs to to easily create your own online store in a matter of minutes. What makes the gadget especially interesting is that because it’s tied to a Google Docs spreadsheet, small business owners can keep product inventory without having to use another third-party program like Quickbooks.

Something many of us can probably appreciate. To install the gadget on your site or blog, Google outlines three simple steps. 1. Sign up for a Google Checkout seller account. Checkout will process your orders and help you attract new leads, convert more sales, and enjoy advanced fraud protection.2. And that’s it. What I really like is how much this lowers the bar to entry for merchants to start up. Do practice some caution, though. What do you think? More in: Google. Webmaster Tools - Home.

Map your site to your own domain - Sites Help. If you would like your site to appear under a custom domain URL that you control, such as www.example.com, you can have your site appear at that URL by going through a process known as mapping your site. Then, as people navigate your site, they will remain on www.example.com unless they click an external link. To point visitors to this new URL, you might also have to make changes to your CNAME record, which controls what aliases are associated with your domain. Map your site toward your custom URL How you map your site to a custom URL depends on whether you are using Google Sites through Google Apps. You can tell if you are using Google Apps because the URL of your site will have "/a" after sites.google.com (for example, Sites created through Google Apps can only be mapped to a custom URL by the administrator for the Google Apps account.

Sign in to the Google Admin console. Click the More Actions button and select Manage Site. Add a Twitter Feed - Working With Google Sites. Want to add a Twitter feed to your web page? Well, it's going to get a little geeky here, but the end result is well worth it. I learned a lot on the way ;) Here's how...

Found a nice tutorial on how to Embed a Twitter Feed on your Google Site. So, rather than re-type all this information, I will just link you ;) Special thanks to Johan Paul for doing this! However, I have discovered a couple of things about his process that might find helpful: 1. Users, there is a free editor that worked great for me called TextWrangler. 2. In short, the .xml file you create must first be uploaded to a "private" Google account site, copy the link location, then return to your "school" Google account site and use that URL to insert your feed.

(Another good reason to have both a personal (private) and school account ;) I have created a video that will review this process if you get into trouble Using Johan' method, you will be inserting a Twitter Feed by using a URL. Insert a Twitter Feed by URL Important! ? Ok... Monkey Raptor: Google Sites : Embedding Twitter Timeline (updated) This notepad file is for Windows based OS. For Mac users, you can use TextWrangler or Notepad++ - as suggested on the comment below this post.

First of all, I wanna say that Google Sites is awesome. But, as you know, Google Sites is very strict about using our own JavaScript and CSS (the web styling), either internal thing or external. Because of that, today I'm gonna show you how to embed your Twitter timeline on your Google Sites. Twitter has updated their widget to be more compatible-er on many platforms, so you don't have to do other things than the steps below : Create/grab your Twitter timeline widget code :Sign in to your Twitter AccountGo to the widget creator on Twitter > Create New (if you already have one, just grab the code)Open your notepad, paste the code from Twitter to the notepad.Use this Google Developers Module :Back again to your notepad, copy and paste this Google Developers Module code wrapper : Then click Insert > ...

Troubleshooting #3 That's about it. Paypal buttons into Google Sites. How to insert different image on different pages of my google site. Hello..would you explain this a bit moreI am trying my first website and putting in a paypal payment symbol.. and I want it to lead the person straight to their paypal login from my page. Wheter that is what you are referring to or not would you elaborate on what you put above.I am stumped at some of the detail re what to do. You have: Click Edit page >> HTML >> insert the following code: This is some text. <br><br> click Update >> add any content you wish >> Save. My Questions___.. your '" ???? ___ What does 'add any content you wish ' refer to?

Im just lost...... when i put the html code given by Paypal the 'viewers view' of my website shows no logo..just the whole code.. and I am ''saving' it Any help or video on how to do this would be greatly appreciated. Much appreciated !! New Tab. 2. Once you have created a New Album and upload the images you wish to use, there are lots of fun tools in Picasa Web Albums to edit, organize, and add captions to your images. 3.

Important... must set your web album to "public" so the slideshow can be viewed from your Google Site. In Picasa Web Album, go to the Edit tab and select Album Properties. A little ways down the page you will find a Share menu - select Public. 4. 5. 6. 7. Click on Properties (gear icon) to further adjust the size of your presentation. Here is a sample viewing of a slideshow. HOWTO: Add an RSS feed to Google Sites. Google Sites is wonderful. Not only can anyone and everyone sign up to make a wikified website, but it’s really easy to use and very configurable. BUT it’s got one very, very major drawback. No RSS feeds! This post shows you how you can generate an RSS feed from either an ‘announcements’ or ‘recent changes’ page quickly and easily. If you’re an educator, you might want to try Google Sites as part of Google Apps Education Edition.

RSS feed for ‘announcements’ page If want to create an RSS feed for a blog-like announcements page, you’re looking for a page similar to the one below. You need to highlight and copy the URL of your announcements page: …and then head over to this Yahoo! Once you’ve done this click the ‘Run Pipe’ button and you should see something like the screenshot below (although obviously yours will reflect the contents of your ‘announcements’ page!) How To Sync Your Twitter and Facebook Status Updates. Making an Image a Link. Scripts Examples. You're not a developer? Try our apps! We have simple tools for everyone. Hire Us! We are the experts that can help you get your script running or completely develop an application built specifically for your business.

You're learning Apps Script? Learn by example! We have tutorials, code snippets, open-source apps and libraries to help you build your apps quickly and efficiently. Get the book! How can you extend Google Apps to fit your organization’s needs? >> Google Script: Enterprise Application Essentials You're an advanced dev? Contribute! Help us build useful libraries and reusable code snippets. YouTube. Facebook Wall Flux.

Google Sites How-tos. Instructions Sign in to your Google SiteNavigate to the page you want to add the description toUse the More button then Page settingsAdd your description to the Page description box in the Page Settings dialogue box and use the Save button. That's it, you're done. Availability You can get this feature now on stand-alone/consumer/personal Google Sites and Google Apps domains with the Rapid Release track enabled. Advice Do not try to fill the page description with meaningless key words, make it a true description/summary of the page's content. You can find more advice, from Google, about page descriptions in the video below. How much time should I spend on meta tags, and which ones matter?

Further Search Engine Optimisation Advice For more SEO advice see Google Sites SEO Guide. Screen Shots (click for larger images) Page Description - Page Settings. Facebook Like Button Gadget. Add Facebook Comments to Google Sites - Hypin' & Hatin' 5. Paste the gadget URL into the "Enter the URL for a gadget you want to add" text box. 6.

Add your website to the URL to content (required) text box. a Make sure to click "Include a scrollbar when necessary. Click OK The results of these steps can be seen below. Updating Web Sites with Google Spreadsheets. I’ve done a handful of web projects this year where it made sense to store data in Google Spreadsheets, and then use a bit of PHP code to make them be dynamically displayed on a web site. In many cases, these are tables of data that are parsed and presented nicely in the web site, but for a few NMC projects, it made sense as a way for a staff person to update data on our web pages w/o having to touch the pages. As a first example, I am cleaning up an older WordPress site I use for logging my running/training; in the past, I kept a spreadsheet on my desktop for keeping a run log and then manually transferred the totals/averages/graphs to my web site by pasting into some text files (they are embedded with a PHP include).

It worked, but it did have that tedious manual smell for something that should be more automated. It seemed to make sense to transfer the spreadsheet to a Google Doc. To access this data, I click the Share button and select Publish As Web Page 1. <? 05. 09. Apps Marketplace - Site Copier for Google Apps (FREE) Embedding a spreadsheet, one sheet only - Google Sites Help. Gadgets for Google Sites - Google Sites APIs - Google Code. At Google, gadgets are HTML and JavaScript applications that can be embedded in web pages and other apps, including Sites.

These gadgets offer the ability to include external and dynamic content within your site, such as miniature applications and database-driven lists, incorporated with text and images for a seamless user experience. If you haven't seen gadgets, you may find thumbnails and descriptions for many of them in a central implementation of gadgets, the iGoogle gadget directory: Every Sites page is a potential gadget container. What's more, Sites offers a Data API that may be used in conjunction with gadgets to create powerful applications. That means as a gadget developer you can leverage the Sites API to build engaging tools for other Web developers and their audiences, as well for your own use. When you build a gadget for Sites, it becomes available to millions of active users. Get Started Sites gadget overview Viewing example gadgets <? ?