Google Sites and Chrome For Dummies

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 Sites
Set up a Google account or Google Apps account
Create wiki sites that let coworkers collaborate on projects or keep family members up to date
Use Google gadgets to keep track of projects, manage calendars and documents, or display photos
Integrate documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other Google Apps into your site
Work with Contact List, Google Talk, and Google Chat, and handle e-mail with Gmail
Download and install the speedy Google Chrome browser
Install 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.

Customer Reviews:

Good, all-around instruction manual for several Google products and services

By Jerry Saperstein - May 12, 2009

This book should be evaluated on two levels. First, the majority of computer literate users will not need it. All the information presented here is either easily intuited or available in Google's somewhat convoluted help system. In other words, nothing covered here is rocket science.

On the other hand, for those who fear the computer, don't like hunting for sometimes elusive information on sites like Google or just prefer a well organized and comprehensive approach to product training, this book is excellent.

The products and services covered are Google Sites, Chrome browser, Google Apps (including Google Docs (Word Processing, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Calendar, Gmail, Contacts, Video Chat and Talk).

That's a lot of territory - and the authors do a fine job of covering it.

On the whole, the book is a well designed, well written overview, rather than a detailed instruction manual. It is sort of a middling reference manual. But it... read more

you won't learn much

By Robert Johnson - November 10, 2011

About 1/3 of the book is about Sites and 2/3 is about Chrome. Since I hoped to get some guidance about working with Sites, I was disappointed that the little information here about Sites adds almost nothing to what you can access on Google's help page for Sites. Since that Help is inadequate (the reason that I wanted a book about Sites), the book is inadequate as well. Anyone ready to use Sites to construct a web page certainly knows how to use a browser, so there seems little point to putting them together. I think that every penny I paid for this book was wasted.

Incidentally, my experience shows the drawback of on-line book buying, If I had seen this in a bookstore, I would have riffed through the pages and known immediately that the book was useless for me.

Great book.

By Jennifer M. Fitzpatrick "jenmusic1" - February 14, 2010

I used this book to help me with a class I was taking on Google Apps and developing a website. The book was more helpful than some other recommended books.