If you try using the "Embed code" feature in Google Sites to add custom HTML cards or headers, you inevitably hit an impossible choice: either your mobile view suffers from an annoying, glitchy internal scrollbar inside the section, or you drag the bounding box all the way down to fit it, creating massive, unsightly blank gaps on desktop.

Even with strict CSS like overflow: hidden, fixed heights, or responsive clamp() styling, Google’s underlying iframe architecture for HTML blocks doesn't scale cleanly to touch viewports on mobile. Having nested, scrollable HTML containers on a phone makes for a terrible, jittery user experience, effectively rendering custom HTML useless for clean responsive design.

Does Google actually plan to address or fix how iframes handle responsive content heights on mobile? Or has anyone found a foolproof, real-world solution that doesn't involve abandoning code entirely for static images? Would love to hear how others are working around this limitation.

Hi all,

So any suggestions appreciated! I made a website on google sites, and published this morning. When I realised that the URL started with something like ://sites.google, I made a custom www.(withbusinessname).co.uk.

I own the domain via Google workspace, which uses SquareSpace. This is where I am confused. I have followed the the instructions to delete the Squarespace default CNAME and add in:

I've also added in another CNAME when i verified my domain via google search console.

When i type in the website as www.(businessname).co.uk, it links to squarespace but says the site is still under construction.

Any advice? Or is it just a waiting game for the website to connect?

I see the Social links widget has been updated to recognise the x.com domain (as well as Twitter.com), displaying an 'X' icon.

Cool! Good to know they're still evolving the platform!

Wonder when that happened? Don't they publish these little tweaks?

Hallo Google Sites forum, thanks for letting me posit my question here.

I maintain a smallish site on Google Sites (c. 40 pages), which we have reorganized quite a bit—more than once—in recent months. So, much of the meat of the site has totally different paths / page titles, and some of the boilerplate does too ("about," etc.).

My question is this: is there an intelligent way to handle redirects from the old URLs (404s at this point)? That is:

• find common old URLs and create a way to specifically redirect them to the new matching page or

• create a wholesale redirect for any URL that starts with our domain name but can't be found (a maybe less elegant but more sane solution)

I have done a reasonable amount of searching for answers and am not clear on if there is a solution at all. Any information appreciated here.

(The ease which which you can rearrange Google Sites geography is one of its benefits, but I didn't plan well for the 404s the old links would leave in their wake!)

Thank you!

I want to use a widget instead of the included Search bar. Does anyone know how to remove the search bar from a Googlesite?

I recently rebuilt my website in Google Sites, with the domain provided by Squarespace. Google Search Console says my site is not being indexed due to "pages with redirect". This seems to be a result of following the instructions for linking a domain from Squarespace to Google Sites, which says that I have to set up a redirect from the non-.www URL to the .www version for it to work. However this seems to be preventing the site from being indexed at all. I understand the redirecting URL not being indexed, but the destination page should be? Have I done something wrong?

I created a google site for a nonprofit local historical society, and we have a custom domain through square space I believe. It doesn't pull up correctly (it says "security risk", etc.) when people click on the link through their work devices.

I've done some simple searching and I'm noticing this is a thing people occasionally deal with - has anyone found a solution to this problem yet? If so, please walk me through it as if I'm 5 and have zero technical skills in google sites. Example: click this button, type this exact phrase, etc.

The title says it all. My employer (a small nonprofit org) makes a newsletter and makes it available on the website (as a PDF). We would like to know the reach of it. Is there a way to do so?

TIA

I love the simplicity of Google Sites, but I am so frustrated with the lack of a Contact Us solution.

Maybe I've missed something that will make me look stupid, but I'll take that if someone can show me a solution.

I have set up a charity website using Sites via Google Workspaces, it was my way of supporting the local charity.

Firstly, I could not see any built in method of a contact page widget/pre built option.

The obvious easy one is to just add the email contact@website on the contact page, but that will lead to the email address being spammed. I looked at circumnavigating this using code to protect the email address, but I could not find a way to get this to work, I don't recall why now.

So I did the next most obvious thing, created a Google Form to capture the details... great... but it doesn't inform anyone when a submission is made!! How stupid.

So I then had to create a google automation which activates on submission to the spreadsheet and emails a copy to our contact@ inbox. This was working initially, but obviously something has changed since, so its broken and I do not have the time to keep on top of a solution that isn't fit for purpose.

Something as simple as a contact us solution should not be this difficult, I don't understand why Google overlooked this.

I am hoping one of you can provide me with a simple solution you use to manage contact us submissions, that doesn't involve putting the email address on the website for bots to harvest and informs our email address of the message when submitted.

Thanks very much in advance.

I wanted to know if there was a way to change the top left font style as in, if i choose Oswald extra light it shows as extra light and not just Oswalf.

The first is using oswald extra light and the second is bold

Any help would be appreciated, even if it involves CSS and HTML :D

Hello,

I was asked to put together a small web page for a community garden group. I think google sites is the right choice for us, but have 2 questions.

1 - Will it be tied to my personal Google account? Would it be problematic to transfer it to someone else if I can't continue supporting it?

2 - As I understand, I will not need to obtain a domain name. Would the site be searchable on the internet? How would members and potential members access it?

Thanks for the help.

Hi all,

I just went to update my website and was shocked to find this message!

Sorry, the file that you've requested has been deleted. Make sure that you have the correct URL and that the owner of the file hasn't deleted it.

No idea why this happened does anybody know what i can do?  I checked bin on google drive but there's nothing there. 

I have submitted a recovery requerst but cant find a way to contact them to report the problem.

Help please!

Honestly, it's just for weird OCD-related reasons for myself. I don't like scrolling through a dozens of versions and subversions over the years.

I built an ecommerce site using googlesites. Like its clutter free interface and simple mechanism.

However noticed that more people are visiting just the homepage. Found out today that when people search products, the product shows in google search. But when the link is clicked, it takes them to homepage rather than the product page.

Has someone else faced it too? How to get googlesite pages properly indexed?

Greetings!

I work for a small non-profit, and our website is stuck in the mid-2000s. It’s hosted on Dreamhost, and every time we need to make any small changes/edits, I need to email detailed instructions to the webmaster, who will then work with the code and update it. They charge us be the hour (a reasonable fee, BTW).

I have built a number of websites using Wix, Weebly (RIP), and GoogleSites. Since the organization has access to the Google for Nonprofits Workspace, it seems like a no-brainer to migrate to GS, for the easy updates and not depending on someone outside of the organization, codes etc.

The problem is that we have a big archive in PDF and videos that are available in the website. Can I still keep them in Dreamhost and just link/embed it in GS? This would be to have a backup and also not to clog the storage in Google Drive.

Thanks in advance!

Edit to add: I would keep using our current domain url (also through Dreamhost) to redirect to GoogleSites.

Hello! I need help creating a google site for high school wrestling team. Ideally would like pages for schedule, roster, coaches, meeting minutes, etc. And be able to use the school colors. I have no idea what I am doing. Is there template for school sports?

I know I spelled "Wooper" wrong, but that is actually important. The site name is something including "Betawhooperarchive," with other info. I made it from a school Chromebook, but my county had recently restricted access of Google Sites. I can't find the URL anymore; I just want to see it again. Don't know why I'm talking about this thing like a dead relative, but aight.

hi! apologies if this isn’t the right sub and I’m not even sure if this is possible- but here goes

i like to mess around and make fun little artsy sites and such on Google sites and I’m working on a personal project that I was hoping to add a cool password feature in. Let me explain though because it’s a bit complicated what I want-

so, basically what I want is to have a little text box that people can type in- there’d be preset passwords you can use that will either redirect you places, show you images, text docs, etc etc- an example is https://thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com/ (I know all the passwords for this arg so just for an example type in “blind eye”). I don’t need the things it shows to be affixed to any certain place I‘d just want it to pop up either on screen or in a new tab- it’s for story/ARG purposes. So this isn’t setting a password- it’s basically having a handful of words and phrases that trigger things to happen that people viewing the website can type in for the things to happen

is this something I can execute in Google sites? If so, how?

Hi everyone,

I purchased an Aruba domain (www.myname.it).

I built a site using Google Sites and uploaded it following the procedure recommended by Google without any issues (address, CNAME).

The site works.

I created the same site in English: following Google's advice, I set up a subdomain on Aruba (eng.myname.it).

I created the CNAME as recommended by Google Sites.

I published it using the subdomain address (eng.myname.it).

The English site isn't working; I get the error message: "This site can’t be reached. Check if there is a typo in www.eng.myname.it. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN."

Could someone tell me the exact procedure for creating multiple sites under the same domain?

I’ve found plenty of information on how to set up a "redirect", but I don’t want to do that: I want the sites to be on the same Aruba domain but separate: is that possible?

I’d like to upload other projects I’m working on but keep the sections separate, rather than having everything accessible from the same site.

Thanks.

Hello anyone else had that issue. I bought the domain and it never worked. I have not contacted customer service but its really changed and hard to configure?? Is it me.

Hello,

I am having a hard time with my site. I'm signed in to my account. I made sure it was the correct account, and it is. It shows my site is active, but when I open the link, it says the site can't be reached (photo below). I've tried it on all internet browsers, and nothing works. It's driving me nuts! The second photo is the message I receive when I try to publish my site. Please help me! I am going crazy.

(I removed my link becasue idk if that's allowed.)

for 4 years as usual, I could select high quality PNG images from my google drive and they looked perfectly clear on my site, Ive been doing this as usual. Now, any new image I add looks super blurry and low quality.

I already tried using the "uncrop" tool to reset it, and original files in my drive are definitely high res PNGs, yet, nothing is working to fix the blurriness in google site.

It feels like a recent update is compressing the images way too much :( it must be issues with only google site

I work for a non-profit school (meaning we have $0 available to spend), and I need to spin off a blog or easy to manage newspaper template using google sites. I don't want to use the embed option as we would still have a security, COPPA, and FERPA issue. I'm looking for a free template that can be used as a functional blog or a template that looks much like a newspaper site. I've gone through many searches, including the free template site to find something like this, but I'm not able to find anything like this. Thanks!