Free Google Sites Templates & Premium Themes

Google Sites templates are pre-designed websites that are easy to customize. These templates are built on Google Sites, the free website builder platform by Google. Templates come pre-installed with ready-made themes, layouts and a variety of elements for content management. Templates are basically a custom solution that save you from starting from scratch.

• Teacher or Classroom sites for edu

• Restaurant, Community, Real estate, Store

• Travel blog, wedding, resume, eportfolio

• Photography, gallery, newsletter

• Projects, research, education

• TechLauncher Startup

• DiTullio Financial

• High Art Resume

• Ecostart Foundation

• Darker Side Developer

• Beautiful Start Influencer

• Salon (free)

• Family Update (free)

These are our favorite Google Sites right now. There is a clear advantage to choosing a pro theme when compared the free template options. Many times is the case of you get what you pay for.

Anyone can start designing a template. Typically we start with a blank slate and use the Themes option to create a theme or even import one as a starting point. For more help in starting a fresh site, check out the official Google Help forum.

The embed code feature of Google Sites makes it easy to insert plugins you find around the web. We also have a list of top Google Sites resources already made for curious users.

Most Google Sites templates are free. Google itself provides many free starter templates. There are many web designers, and teachers especially, who have graciously donated their time to providing free Google Sites templates. Your school or organization may even provide a template for you free of charge and so it may be worth inquiring of the IT department.

Quickly fill out this form and receive access to all of them in Google Drive

We put a lot of work into our templates and give users full access to live demos. If you need help or support, first try the Google Sites support team on the forums: https://support.google.com/sites/community. However, sometimes the template or Google Sites doesn't exactly meet your needs and you aren't completely satisfied. Therefore, we offer a 30 day money back guarantee. All you have to do is email kyle@kirksvillewebdesign.com asking for a refund.

You can get more templates for Google Sites by reaching out to web designers who create them. We will also be adding more templates to the gallery as we publish them.

Yes, you can copy a Google Sites template. There are several ways to do this:

• Import a template from your Google Workspace domain or from another website you own

• Copy a Google Site from Google Drive

• Copy a Google Site if you have editor permissions by using the Settings > Make a Copy option

You can't download Google Sites templates or Google Sites in a useful format to be hosted on another platform. However, you may directly download the HTML documents by to your computer:

• by right-clicking the webpage and selecting "Save as...". 

• Using Google Takeout for Google Sites

• Experience: We have been designing Google Sites since 2010. We know all the quirks and features of the product. 

• Reliability: We implement best practices and we build templates thoughtfully. You are receiving the best Google Sites templates possible.

• Inspiring: Our templates should inspire content creators to build without getting bogged down in the details. We make a variety of templates in different styles, but all with special attention to user experience (UX) best practices. Many customers remark how our Google Sites don't even resemble typical websites made by amateurs on the platform. We push the boundaries of the platform with excellent design sense. We also feed you ideas on content, either with AI generated content or with examples.

• You save time and money: It takes our Google Sites designers many hours to produce a suitable template. In the end, customers are saving the time we put into template research, user testing, responsiveness, creativity and formatting. Normally our custom web development project start in the thousands of dollars range, so templates deliver a similar solution at a fraction of the price.

Yes, every website template is fully expandable. You can change the logo, the color scheme or the fonts. You can add pages, delete pages, copy pages and do anything you want design-wise to your template.

No. You can only import Google Sites themes. For more about how to do this, see our support article on importing templates, also called applying a template to another Google Site.

Read Google's instructions on how to publish and share your site, or add a custom domain.

Yes. We take into account how our templates appear responsively, especially at common break points for desktop, tablet or mobile. When editing your template, feel free to preview it periodically to check how the responsiveness is working.

Each template is created with images from Pexels. All photos and videos on Pexels are free to use. Attribution is not required. Giving credit to the photographer or Pexels is not necessary but always appreciated. You can modify the photos and videos from Pexels. Be creative and edit them as you like.  Fonts are from Google fonts and subject to their terms. Icons are from Flaticons may be subject to attribution terms. Our use in these templates is for sample display purposes only. 

We may run discounts, events and sales from time-to-time. For example, our 2023 Black Friday Sale runs until November 30th, 2023 via our Lemon Squeezy store. 

Google Sites has all the necessary tools and functions to excel in SEO. For specifics see our Google Sites SEO best practices. Our responsive templates are designed to perform well given efforts are made to target keyword phrases low hanging fruit.

Yes; you can publish Google Sites for sharing your student portfolio. Many universities running Google Workspace for Education support Google Sites for:

• Creating new Google Sites within their student Google Drive account

• Post-graduation or exiting solutions for saving their Google Sites work

• Publishing Google Sites as domain only or publicly. Note, it may be difficult without admin intervention to connect a custom domain address to your site.