Google Sites is genuinely easy — it hosts a page for you, and you just paste in an embed. If you only ever need one simple page, it's a fair choice. So why do I still teach GitHub? Because the moment you want a real, growing website that looks the way you imagine, Google Sites quietly boxes you in. Here's the honest picture — the good and the limits.
Google Sites 真的很容易——它幫你 host 一頁,你只要貼上 embed 就好。如果你永遠只需要一頁,它是個合理的選擇。那我為什麼還是教 GitHub?因為當你想要一個會成長、又能照你想法呈現的真正網站時,Google Sites 會悄悄把你框住。這一課我老實攤開講——好處和侷限都說。
Let's give it full credit. For the simplest needs, it's hard to beat:先給它應得的肯定。在最單純的需求上,它很難被打敗:
For a single notice, a quick sign-up, or one simple page — honestly, that's fine. If hosting 20 separate pages sounds like too much, making one Google Sites page at a time is a perfectly reasonable way to work.對於一則公告、一個快速報名、或一頁簡單的頁面——老實說,這樣就夠了。如果要 host 20 個頁面聽起來太麻煩,每次只用 Google Sites 做一頁,其實是完全合理的做法。
The trouble starts the moment you want more than one simple page — or you want it to look truly yours.麻煩會在你想要「不只一頁」、或想要「真正屬於自己的樣子」時開始出現。
| Google SitesGoogle Sites | GitHub PagesGitHub Pages | |
|---|---|---|
| How you build怎麼做 | Drag-and-drop + embeds拖拉 + 嵌入框 | Real HTML files (AI makes them)真正的 HTML 檔(AI 做的) |
| Your AI-made page你的 AI 頁面 | Sits in a box (iframe)塞在框裡(iframe) | IS the actual page本身就是那一頁 |
| Control over design設計掌控 | Limited to templates受限於模板 | Full control完全掌控 |
| A 20-page site20 頁的網站 | Google's menu, hard to keep custom用 Google 的選單,難客製一致 | One folder, shared menu & style一個資料夾,共用選單與樣式 |
| The web address網址 | Long, Google-controlled又長、由 Google 掌控 | username.github.io (or your own domain)username.github.io(或你自己的網域) |
| Who owns the files檔案誰擁有 | Inside Google's system關在 Google 系統裡 | You — download & move anytime你——隨時下載、搬走 |
| Cost費用 | Free免費 | Free免費 |
| Best for最適合 | One quick page, no fuss單一頁面、求快不求多 | A real, growing, custom site會成長、能客製的真正網站 |
If you need exactly one simple page today, never want to touch a file, and just want something live fast — Google Sites is a perfectly good choice. No shame in it. But if you want a website that grows, looks the way you imagine, and genuinely belongs to you — that's why, in this course, I teach GitHub.如果你今天就只需要一頁簡單的頁面、完全不想碰檔案、只想快點上線——Google Sites 是個很好的選擇,一點都不丟臉。但如果你想要一個會成長、能照你想像呈現、又真正屬於你的網站——這就是為什麼這門課我教 GitHub。