subject: How to Get a Free Website for Your Non-Profit and More [print this page] How to Get a Free Website for Your Non-Profit and More
Non-profits often have to try to accomplish a lot with a minimal amount of money. In this article I will briefly show you how to get some cutting edge technology for free, which will help you organization get its own free website as well as allow it to collaborate and get more done.
Google allows small groups to sign-up for the Google Apps Standard Account for free. What this gives you, is access for up to 50 people in you non-profit to use Google's email, calendar, documents and sites. All these are tied into your domain name so all the email addresses have your domain name. It also makes it easy to share calendar events, documents and websites with everyone in your domain.
Google sites can be configured so the general public can view the site or they can be denied access. If you make a site public, you can configure the domain so the site will show up as the domain name you are using. So in effect you can create as many free websites for your non-profit as you want.
Some of the benefits of using a Google Site for your free public website are: the site is easy to maintain by nontechnical as well as technical people, you can easily add functionality to the site through the addition of gadgets, and there are many types of pages you can create.
Some of the useful pages you can create include a file cabinet which is a list of uploaded documents, an announcements page which is similar to a blog, a public calendar that people can subscribe to so it shows in their private gmail calendars, also you can create custom lists, and many others.
So I hope you agree that using Google Apps for your non-profit and configuring a Google Site for your public website has many benefits.
Here is a link to more detailed directions on how toconfigure your Google Site so you can use it as your free public website.
