Anyone having success with google sites(Sities.google.com)?
I needed a resume page, so used google sites to create one (I know nothing about web dev) .

Now they are giving me an ugly url when i try to publish it. I remember my friends having .github.io url when they make websites using html/css which looks decent .

So how can i move this google site to git repo? i can't see any html/css code here, only the site

@M1sf3t nope, they are giving me perma link like this : sites.google.com/view/choose_your_name

But i would rather have a github.io url if possible

I have created a simple internal site for our small company using Google sites, since it was easy to do so.

The problem is that Google sites uses a WYSIWYG interface to create your site so the html-css-js is not exposed to you. You can drag and drop stuff but your site will be limited to what elements Google sites allow you to drag-and-drop.

Sites like blah.GitHub.io require you to create a site from scratch (writing your own html, CSS and JavaScript) and then committing it to a git repo with a particular name, which will then automatically be published to a GitHub.io site.

Make a repo on github, make it a page and just iframe or scrape and load your google site into it, I don’t think you can export the front end code out unless you view source and copy/paste everything.

If it's just a static website or one page then just save the webpage using your browser abd upload it to a repo on github and google how to make it a site.

If it's more than one page then you gotta scrape it off, give httrack a shot

As the topic of this week is a "hack" then I suggest writing an iframe that fetches your site from google and put the parent on github, remove scrollbars and allowfullscreen and bla bla and you're done

Oh shit, didn't see your comment there, @C0D4 :/

@shaki I thought that sounded familiar🤣

Well thanks for help everyone. I guess it won't be easy to convert it into xyz.github.io without using scrapers or other tools.
I was actually thinking more along the lines of buying a github.io url, and using it to publish.
I have one from godaddy, and the site guides me to connect it to that url, but am starting to believe that its not possible to get a github io url without hosting your webpage in a github repo( which google obviously won't allow)

@TitanLannister you would be right, you need a repo on GitHub to get a github domain, also their free.

Alternatively you could by xyz.com and redirect it to google sites.

So, willing to buy a domain but not put in the effort which you will find foolproof guides for, damn you can pay anyone here to do it for you :p

@shaki hehehe the last one hurted the most. Actually i had my taste of development from the Android dev side, so I don't want to get much into web dev unless absolutely necessary.

And really the google site's url are very ugly it goes like this : https://sites.google.com/prod/view/...
So i have to buy a domain, no matter from google or any other site to minify this ... I myself can't remember it

Although i am currently using bit.ly shortner , but that doesn't feel the same

@M1sf3t

Check out afraid.org I've been using it for quite some time and i'm happy to have come by it, maybe it'll help someone browsing this rant

@M1sf3t

I just use it for a free dns A record poiting to my vps whenever i have a demo or something.

You can still use it for a free dynamic dns service or dns backup, didn't need their paid service thus far

@shaki that’s what cloudflare is for 😎

@C0D4

Cloudflare is ok for small short term stuff but I wouldn't trust them(anyone) with my nameservers.

Plus with free cloudflare you get their own ssl which is a big NO for me even if it's on full strict mode, my way I still get to use my own let's encrypt