• Go to sites.google.com (sign in with your google account or create one with "sign up for sites")
• Click on the big blue "create site" button
• Click on "Browse the Gallery for More"
• Choose the Government and Non-Profits category
• Type CACFP in the search bar and search
• Click on the "CACFP Sponsor Template"
• Click Select
  • You will see that template replaced "browse gallery for more"
• Now name your site
• This will automatically fill in the URL (there is a possibility that you will have to change the URL part if it has already been taken)
• Ignore "choose a theme"
• More Options: determine if you want everyone or just certain people able to see your site (you can change this later)

Create the site!  Congratulations, you have your very own website!
***Note, if the URL has already been taken, this is when you will get an error and have to try again with a different URL.
The CACFP Sponsor Website Template!

• Click on "Edit Page"
• The top bar will provide editing options and the page you are viewing will become "editable"
• You can change the names of your pages (the Headers) when you are in Edit Mode 
• Play around with what you can insert (gadgets, maps, photos, documents, powerpoints, videos).  You can always go back and delete the changes you don't like.
• Now it's up to you what you want to make the page look like, the information you would like to provide and more

• Click on the "More Actions" drop down and then click "Manage Site"
• Click on Themes (under the site appearance header)
• Themes will easily change the appearance of your site without you having to pick colors etc.

Play around and see what you like best!  You can always change it back to the template default if you don't find anything else.
The CACFP Sponsor Website Template!

• This page template is called Announcements
• "Edit Page"
• add into the big box at the top descriptions of the type of news or information you are going to announce/post on this page (or whatever you'd like)
• To add a post, simply click "Add Post"
• Changing what is already there, click "edit post" and then delete the text or modify it.

• This page template is called a "List"
• You can change the column names and type of column
• Click "Customize this list"
• Name the column and you can choose what kind of box shows up. 
  • e.g. Currently the column "Resource Name" this is a text box that you can write in
  • e.g. Currently the column "Resource Website" is the column name and this "type" is a URL so the user can click on and easily access a website.
• Your other choices include a check box, the date, or a dropdown
  • If you want a drop down your choices will be input into the "options" box one at a time.  They will display as a dropdown after you save.

• Customize both the "Forms for the Food Program" and "Documents and Resources"
• This page template is called a "File Cabinet"
• Edit Page
• The top part of the page, the empty box, is meant to be text, table, picture or anything else you want to insert in the box
• Then you simply add files
• You can create folders to put the files into, just like you do on your computer now

Add a logo and change your navigation (menu) bars here

• Header>Edit Logo (to insert your logo)
• Horizontal Navigation Bar (this means the menu bar at the top, you can change which pages you want here and how the menu at the top looks)
• Sidebar is your side navigation and you can edit what shows up here as well (you can also delete it altogether)

• You can change one by one the colors and fonts of the site to what you like best 
• When changing it, the site will give you a preview
• Don't be nervous to try it if you do save something you end up not liking, you can go back and choose "Use Theme Default Value" which will change it back to the original template.

General
Change your Sites name and who can see the site

Pages
Change where your pages appear by dragging and dropping

Attachments
View and upload attachments here

Page Templates
You can choose to add different types of pages, other than the default "web page"

Adding a Web Address
If you purchase a domain name you can add the website address(s) here