How to Host Website on Google Workspace with Google Sites Blank Site or Templates 2026 Easily

Go to your Workspace login and enter the credentials for the account tied to your organization's domain. A business account looks the same as a personal Gmail login, just with your own domain in place of gmail.com. If several Google accounts are signed in on the same browser, check which one you're entering a password for: a site created under the wrong account won't inherit your Workspace's storage, sharing permissions, or domain settings.

Once signed in, open the Google apps grid (the nine-dot icon) from any Google service and look for Sites, or go directly to sites.google.com. Because it's a native Workspace app, anything built here is stored in the same Drive as your documents and spreadsheets, and it inherits your organization's sharing defaults automatically, which matters if more than one person on the team needs editing access.

The Sites home screen opens on "Start a new site," with a Blank site tile marked by a colored plus icon sitting first in a row of starting points. Blank site drops you into an empty canvas with no pre-built sections, the right call for full control over layout from page one. The tiles next to it are templates: pre-arranged pages and sections you customize instead of building from nothing, which saves time if adjusting an existing layout beats designing one from scratch.

Whichever starting point you pick, the Sites editor works the same way: a right-hand panel for adding text boxes, images, embeds, and layout blocks, and a Pages tab for adding new pages and arranging them into your site's navigation. Keep the number of top-level pages manageable. A visitor should see the whole site's structure in the navigation bar without scrolling a long dropdown, so group related content under one page with sections instead of creating a new page for every topic.

Use Preview in the editor's top bar to see the site as a visitor would, mobile layout included, before every publish, not just the first one. A layout that looks fine on a wide editor window can crowd or overlap on a phone.

When it looks right, click Publish. By default the site gets a Google-hosted address ending in sites.google.com.

For a custom domain, don't look in the site's own Settings; that panel is the personal-account flow and, for a Workspace account, only tells you to contact your administrator. A super admin instead maps it from the Admin console: Apps → Google Workspace → Sites → Custom URL → Add, choosing a domain already verified on the account, then pointing a CNAME record at the destination Google specifies for the site's current sites.google.com address. The site owner's email needs to be on that same domain, and DNS changes can take up to 24 hours to resolve.