{"id":15511,"date":"2019-09-05T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=15511"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:19","slug":"ability-to-create-classic-google-sites-is-re-enabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/05\/ability-to-create-classic-google-sites-is-re-enabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Ability to create classic Google Sites is re-enabled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/New-Google-Sites-v-Classic-Google-Sites-700x211.png\" alt=\"classic google sites, the new google sites\" class=\"wp-image-15520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/New-Google-Sites-v-Classic-Google-Sites-700x211.png 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/New-Google-Sites-v-Classic-Google-Sites-200x60.png 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/New-Google-Sites-v-Classic-Google-Sites-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/New-Google-Sites-v-Classic-Google-Sites-768x232.png 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/New-Google-Sites-v-Classic-Google-Sites-665x201.png 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/New-Google-Sites-v-Classic-Google-Sites.png 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to strong feedback about certain <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/sites\/answer\/7176163?hl=en\">features and functionality missing in new Google Sites<\/a>, classic Sites creation has been re-enabled in U\u2011M Google. This decision was made to minimize impact to fall term coursework requiring those features. Classic Sites creation will be available until closer feature parity exists between classic Sites and new Sites. The main impact you will notice is that <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/\">sites.google.com<\/a> now delivers you to the classic Sites page rather than new Sites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We emphasize the importance of using new Sites whenever possible.<\/strong> This will reduce potential impacts when Google retires classic Sites, including a required effort to self-migrate your classic Sites. You can find the new Sites page by clicking <strong>New Google Sites<\/strong> in the left panel of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/\">sites.google.com<\/a> or in Google Drive by clicking <strong>New &gt; More &gt; Google Sites<\/strong>. We will closely monitor as Google continues to improve new Sites with features and functionality currently available in classic Sites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To reiterate, this is <strong>temporary<\/strong>. We strongly encourage the use of new Sites, as Google will eventually retire classic Sites.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to strong feedback about certain features and functionality missing in new Google Sites, classic Sites creation has been re-enabled in U\u2011M Google. This decision was made to minimize impact to fall term coursework requiring those features. Classic Sites creation will be available until closer feature parity exists between classic Sites and new Sites. The main impact\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/05\/ability-to-create-classic-google-sites-is-re-enabled\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":12253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[87,338,111],"class_list":["post-15511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-services","tag-google","tag-sites","tag-web"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-sites-675x300.png",600,421,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-sites-675x300-200x140.png",200,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-sites-675x300-285x200.png",285,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-sites-675x300.png",600,421,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-sites-675x300.png",600,421,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-sites-675x300.png",600,421,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-sites-675x300.png",600,421,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-sites-675x300-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-sites-675x300-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-sites-675x300-600x300.png",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-sites-675x300.png",600,421,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Google-sites-675x300.png",356,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Eric Fruth, ITS Infrastructure","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/efruth\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"In response to strong feedback about certain features and functionality missing in new Google Sites, classic Sites creation has been re-enabled in U\u2011M Google. This decision was made to minimize impact to fall term coursework requiring those features. 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