Some Christmas trinkets from Google to Google Sites users, released yesterday.

Google Translate element is now integrated with Google Sites to help visitors quickly translate a site with the click of a button. You can hit the button at the bottom right of the page to view the whole site in the language of your choice. This would come in handy as the holiday season draws near, with traveling being an imminent part of your celebratory plans. You can try it out here:

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The next would be the ability to preview PDFs attached to pages and file cabinets in Google Docs Viewer. No need for cumbersome downloads, you can view it within a browser, in an embedded viewer. Read more here and here. It will look like this on your site :

Lastly, you can set a default location for a page template. This makes it simpler for you to keep the pages of your site organized. For example, if you have a recipe template in your family site, set /recipes/ as default location for pages created from that template so all your recipes show up together within your site.

Hope these additions to Google Sites prove useful!

(Note : Creation of Google Sites is possible for both Google Apps Standard and Premier Editions.)