Creating a Google Site

Google Sites reminds me of a SAAS program, because the web application allows you to create a website easily without knowledge of HTML. The features of this web application contain: templates, editing pages, creating forms, and more. Google sites, only needs a Google Account and a web browser to run. This makes the services that Google Sites offer was a SAAS.

There are many advantages of working with Google Sites. The user does not need to know HTML to be able to create a website, and can make elaborate websites which include forms, calendars, etc. Google Sites also makes it faster for people who do know HTML to create a website. The average user will benefit from Google Sites as you can create a website through a template and be able to copy the code to make their own stand alone website.

Google sites makes it easy to create a website from a template, but it does have its drawbacks. Google Sites is limited on what you can put on the website, for example the widgets set a limited number of things you can do. While on a regular webpage, you would be able to do anything the web would allow you to. Also it is hard to change a couple of features like the layout of the template.

Google Sites is much like an Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The software packages allows for users to create websites and things related to it. SAAS can be said to be a branch of SOA as it offers many of the same aspects as SOA does. "The SOA implementations rely on a mesh of software services. Services comprise unassociated, loosely coupled units of functionality that have no calls to each other embedded in them." These same characteristics define SAAS.

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