The battle of the sites

After a weekend away in Prague with some truly inspirational people I decided to try and make my website in google sites. I have had my wikispace site for several years and it has been frustrating me that I cannot make it look how I want without paying for an upgrade. I had been avoiding google sites because I initially found it quite hard to work with but after seeing what some friends of mine have done with it I have decided to give it a go.

At the moment I am quite pleased with how it lets me break up the pages and change backgrounds etc. It also links nicely with this blog so it can act as a better professional work space than the wiki. Furthermore being able to build a site from scratch instead of modifying pages is a significant benefit, it is still a learning curve on a new platform but that in itself is a good way of expanding my knowledge of how to use different types of site for educational benefits.

In the process I have managed to get something which looks a bit like this...

... to something that looks like this.

The colours are a bit random, I will change those when  get a proper logo but I think it looks much more professional on the google site.