Curious about Google Sites and how team collaboration Web sites can help you share documents online from various locations? Curious about Google’s new Chrome browser? Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies has what you want to know! Today, Google is so much more than another word for “search.” Google Sites & Chrome For Dummies shows you how to create great collaborative Web sites with Google Sites and surf the Web with the super-fast Google Chrome browser. Find out how they work with other Google Apps, too. You’ll learn
This is such a random book. Sites and Chrome? The coverage was very uneven -- six parts for Sites and one part for Chrome. And the parts on Sites weren't even all on Sites itself -- a lot was on things like Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc. --- all those fun things you can ADD to Google Sites.
I would have prefered to have seen a shorter book on JUST Google Sites that included less "click here, click there, do this, do that" sort of directions, and something that got into the theory of how to build a website - something like "How to build a website using Google Sites."
I read this hoping to pick up a few Chrome tips but it was useless. This is largely my fault--I should have figured a "for dummies" book was too simple, and reading about software that's undergone about 8 releases since the book's publication is not smart either--but this book still could have done better. For one, it was clearly written for Windows users only, with no discussion of other platforms or Mac keyboard shortcuts. Developer's tools go unmentioned. Outdated features, like Google Gears, are discussed. I guess, for browsers, you have to know what you're looking for and search on the web, not turn to print.