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 you're signed into multiple Google accounts on the same browser, double-check which one you're entering a password for, since Sites created under the wrong account won't inherit your Workspace's storage, sharing permissions, or custom domain settings.

Once you're 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 you build here is stored in the same Drive as your documents and spreadsheets, and it inherits your organization's sharing defaults automatically — useful if multiple people on your team need 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. Clicking Blank site drops you straight into an empty canvas with no pre-built sections, which is the right call if you want full control over layout from page one. The tiles next to it are template starting points — pre-arranged pages and sections you customize instead of building from nothing, which saves time if you'd rather adjust an existing layout than design one yourself.

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 be able to see your whole site's structure in the navigation bar without scrolling through a long dropdown, so group related content under a single page with sections rather than creating a new page for every topic.

Use the preview button in the editor's top bar to see the site as a visitor would, including how it collapses down for mobile screens. This is worth doing before every publish, not just the first one — a layout that looks fine on your wide editor window can crowd or overlap on a phone, and catching that in preview costs nothing compared to catching it after a visitor complains.

When you're ready, click Publish in the top-right corner. By default your site gets a Google-hosted address ending in sites.google.com, but if you want it to appear under your own domain, you can connect a custom domain from the site's settings — this typically involves adding a verification record through your domain registrar, so budget a little time for DNS changes to take effect before the custom address starts working.