Bloke
Premium Member
Greetings Brethren.
I use Google Sites for my businesses and also for masonic purposes. I have 5 sites I own and personally keep active and administer.
Firstly, if you're a G-Mail or other Google product user, you can export your data via a tool which it can be hard to discover. You can assess it at https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout (back to that later). My tech guy told me about it. I found this particularity useful for downloading my whole site.
Google is moving its website CMS platform (Google Sites), now called "Old Sites" to a new one, you guessed it "New Sites". I've had a bit of trouble getting good info on it. It is still in a state of flux, there is no migration tool yet, and there is no date for roll outs but Google says once a date is announced, they will leave Old Sites going for a year.
I've been looking at this, because last year, our lodge web site's visits fell from 3K a month to about 1.2K per month. Old Sites is mobile responsive and generally mobile friendly, but there is an recurring issues with the Robots.txt (which you can no longer edit and is set automatically by Google).
Google is expected to release a migration tool from Old to New Sites, but several of my web sites are important to my income, so I am considering my position. One of my great hobbies is our lodge web site. It's about 12 years old and has a lot of articles on it. Google is saying use cut and paste to move each page from Old to New sites, that's actually practical for my businesses, but for the Lodge web site - it's weeks of work prior to a migration tool being established.
From other threads, there are people using google sites for lodges. Back in the day, the hosting was free for NFP so it's been a great option, all I need to pay for there is the domain. I had a look at some other CMSs but they're all compatively expensive.
What are you using for your lodge web site and how much does it cost?
Are there any other Google Sites users here, what do you make of the current state of play with the CMS ?
I use Google Sites for my businesses and also for masonic purposes. I have 5 sites I own and personally keep active and administer.
Firstly, if you're a G-Mail or other Google product user, you can export your data via a tool which it can be hard to discover. You can assess it at https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout (back to that later). My tech guy told me about it. I found this particularity useful for downloading my whole site.
Google is moving its website CMS platform (Google Sites), now called "Old Sites" to a new one, you guessed it "New Sites". I've had a bit of trouble getting good info on it. It is still in a state of flux, there is no migration tool yet, and there is no date for roll outs but Google says once a date is announced, they will leave Old Sites going for a year.
I've been looking at this, because last year, our lodge web site's visits fell from 3K a month to about 1.2K per month. Old Sites is mobile responsive and generally mobile friendly, but there is an recurring issues with the Robots.txt (which you can no longer edit and is set automatically by Google).
Google is expected to release a migration tool from Old to New Sites, but several of my web sites are important to my income, so I am considering my position. One of my great hobbies is our lodge web site. It's about 12 years old and has a lot of articles on it. Google is saying use cut and paste to move each page from Old to New sites, that's actually practical for my businesses, but for the Lodge web site - it's weeks of work prior to a migration tool being established.
From other threads, there are people using google sites for lodges. Back in the day, the hosting was free for NFP so it's been a great option, all I need to pay for there is the domain. I had a look at some other CMSs but they're all compatively expensive.
What are you using for your lodge web site and how much does it cost?
Are there any other Google Sites users here, what do you make of the current state of play with the CMS ?