Google Sites, is a new service that launched by Google in order to help users to create the Web sites. It is mainly developed by using Google-acquired JotSpot’s technology, and it is Google’s foray into what I believed will be the first step for an organization to make a team site as easily as possible. As it is designed for organization, a user need to sign-up with her office email, not that those individual email addresses with the suffix of gmail, yahoo, hotmail, or aol.com. In other words, only schools or businesses email addresses can be used in applying the Google Apps Team Edition, as Google Sites is part of the beta products available in Google Apps. Presently, Google Sites is a latest new addition to the Google Apps, as Google Apps Team Edition currently includes the following Google Apps services: Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Personalized Start Page. After a user signing up with the service, she is eligible to create Web site with Google Sites. In return, Google also assigns a partner page for this particular user. The partner page will looks like a personal Google page, with search bar at the top, and several links such as link to email, today’s weather news, Reuters news, Google Talk, and etc., but the partner page will has its own sub-domain, prefix with http://partnerpage.google.com/yourusername.

As mentioned by Google blog, Google Sites is a feature-rich application. It offers templates, a rich-text editor, 10GB of storage for each Google Apps account and integration with other Google services so you can embed gadgets, calendars, spreadsheets, presentations, photo slideshows and videos. You can invite people to collaborate or just view a site and you can also publish the site so that anyone can view it.

Below is the Google Sites that I’ve just made.

The sample Google Partner Page:

via [Google Operating System Blog]