Image Carousel Update
I hope you've had a chance to use use the new-ish feature of image carousels in Google Sites--such a great way to save space on a web page, and to include lots of interest with multiple photos. Here's my previous post with an example. Google is rolling out an update to make the carousel element even better with two brand new features:
- add captions to each photo in the carousel--yay!
- adjust the transition speed between photos, so they don't going flying by too quickly
Table of Contents Update
A second improvement to Google Sites is an update to the Table of Contents. I use this often on a website I manage and it's a super way for people click a link on the top of your page to get quickly to content at the bottom. Sometimes there's a heading in the Table of Contents you don't want to appear and it's simple to hide it. Here's the 'eye' icon which appears next to each heading and you can choose which ones to display and which to hide. 
Button Update
And the last updated feature in Sites is Buttons. Creating a button is a great element to create a visual link to another page on your site or to a link outside your website. Google has added multiple styles for buttons. There are now three choices: filled, outlined, or just text. You can of course, change the text to words of your choice--it doesn't have to say 'button!' My most frequent use of the button element is to link to a Google Form. If you have a sign up on your classroom website for teacher conferences, field trips, or something similar, creating a button that says 'Sign Up,' 'Register,' or 'Take the Survey' is a much cleaner, obvious choice for your users.It's a busy time of year in the classroom, and these new updates might take a couple weeks to roll out to everyone, but give them a try when you have a moment.
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