Sheet2Site Documentations

What is Sheet2Site

Sheet2Site is a tool that will help you create a beautiful website from Google Sheets with pictures, text, filters and links. Make a website without writing code from just one Google Sheet.

What sites you can make?

You can make grid style sites, for example a list of cities, events, tools, equipment, etc.

Should I create a new webiste or Embed to existing?

If you already have an existing website you can embed Sheet2Site page to your website with a code snippet. It will keep your logo, navigation bar footer. It will be on a separete page like: yourwebsite.com/directory
Or you can create a entire website from scratch using templates. Each site will have navigation bar, header, filters, cards and details pages.

Why should I use Sheet2Site?

Because if you have an idea and you know basics of Google Sheets you can easily and quickly create a website and make your idea live without procrastination and pain

Getting Started

1. Install Sheet2Site Google Sheet Add-on:

Install

2. Share the sheet

3. Quick Start

If you already have data in your Google Sheet you can already convert it to the table on the website.

Click on Update Website in the menu and you will get your website link.

You should get a link

https://www.sheet2site.com/api/v3/index.php?key=1IxTGBbsRrSZAQ88EDh2kAqpL4iT3NceSSRBzv7_0vT8

Table options

Also take a look on Table options. You can hide some columns, add buttons and images or change the colors.

Embed this table

You can Embed this table to your website.

4. Choose a template

If you want to have some other tempalte and more customization you can select a template:

5. Edit your website

Try to change the text in a "Header" tab to understand how it works:

6. Push changes

Push changes to your website from a Google Sheet press "Update Website" or open the link if you saved it previusly, wait 15 secs and reload the page again.

Basics

Each Sheet2Site website consists of 1 Google Sheet. The website is updating automatically if there are any changes made in the sheet. The website is consist of parts like "Header", "Cards", "Description" and other. Each of this part is represented in a tab in the bottom of this Google Sheet. In tabs you can customize or hide some specific part of your webiste.

Tabs:

Layout - The live preview of your website where you can see how it will looks like. Here you can choose template for each of parts of your website or hide them.
Design - Colors and fonts of your website
Navbar - Navigation bar that located in the top of your website that allows you to connect multiple subpages and add the logo
Header - Header's main and secondary titles, hero image, call to actions
Filters - Filter settings for cards
Cards - The database of items of your website. It could be goods, items, job vacancies, events etc.
Extra Sections - Top and bottom extra section with text and image
Map - You can create an embedded map with locations
Footer - Footer settings of your webiste with links such as "Made by" or any other.
Settings - Here you can add integrations with Google Analitics, chat. Add SEO data, favicon icon and other.
Detaile Pages - List of detail pages of your website where you can add more infor about some specific item and it will be avalible on a link like: yourwebsite.com/detailpage
Advanced - Here you can add custom HML and Javascript for your website. For example you can add sharing buttongs.

Layout

In the Layout tab you can select a template of each parts of your website live preview of your website where you can see how it will looks like. Here you can choose template for each of parts of your website or hide them.

To open a link of your website you can click "Update Website" green button

Design

Colors and fonts of your website. To change colors of your website, just as easy to change background color in Google Sheet:

Font Style
Header's background color
Header's button color
Header's button text color
Card's button color
Card's button text color

Link name: How user will see it in the navbar
Type of link: Link or button
Link destination / Sheet2Site URL: Sheet2Site link will link to a sheet2site subpage. This will be shown as yourwebsite.com/subpage. Also works with Google Forms and Typeform. External links will take visitors to another site
Link shown in address bar when clicked: This is a preview of how your sheet2site URL will look e.g. yourwebsite.com/subpage.

Header template

To change header template please go to the Layout tab and select the header template

Header titles

Call to action

You can add call to action buttons in the header. You can add a button with:

A link to external site
Mailchimp email subscribe form
A link to a detail page
A link to Typeform pop-up
A link to Google form pafe

In the Header tab Header Button Link and Header Button Link you can add your call to action button. It looks like this:

Images

To be able to add images to your website you need to host them somewhere. Here are some options:

Find in Google

The easiest way is just to find some images in Google Images , select image that you like make a right click and select Copy Image Address

Images hosting

If all your images on your computer the easiest way is to upload them to free image hosting. You can upload 1 or multiple images at once.

Imgur

Imgur is a free hosting that you can upload your image and use on your website.

Upload the image: Drag and Drop the image or Choose file
Right click uploaded image. Copy Image Address link. It should looks like this https://i.imgur.com/WYSsP12.png

Bulk Images Upload

Imgur supports bulk images upload. Just select multiple images from your computer and it will upload all of them.

After Right click on each uploaded image. Copy Image Address link and put it to the sheet

ImgBB

ImgBB is another free hosting that you can upload your image and use on your website.

Start uploading and select an the image
Open the link that you got.
Right click uploaded image. Copy Image Address link. It should looks like this


https://i.ibb.co/8DmtBvz/download-1.png

Find on Unslpash

Unsplash is great website where you can find some beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project

Another cool thing that Unsplash support image editing on the fly by adding special parametrs into URL , so you don't need to use any software to edit your image.

Example: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1525183995014-bd94c0750cd5?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid;=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto;=format&fit;=crop&w;=750&h;=400&q;=80&blur;=80

&fit;=crop : apply cropping to the image/
&w;=750 : width=750px
&h;=400 : heigh=400px
&q;=80 : quality of compression: 80%
&blur;=80 : apply 80% blur effect to the image.

Find on unDraw

undRaw is a open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine. You can even customize a color of your illustration.

Display Images from Google Drive

Your Goolge Drive folder can be used as your image hosting. Here is how you can display images from Google Drive in your website:

Create a folder in a Google Drive
Upload all of your images there.
Click on the folder and select Get Link
Change the permission to Anyone with a link can view
Done

Nice! Your folder is ready. Now let's get a link to a specific image and put into the spreadsheet:

Right click on the image. Get link
Copy the link. It should looks like this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hmguNruAeD-4IMKJDCvfkT_ViJtUbtjb/view?usp=sharing
Done
Paste it to the spreadsheet

Cards

The "Cards" tab is where your data is. You need to add your data there and select a type from the dropdown for each column:

How to create Cards?

Select data types

Open "Cards" tab

Column types in the row 2 and your header names and in the row 3.

You can delete template's columns that you don't need. They made for demo purpose.

Click to open Google Sheet

Available Column Types:

Title
Subtitle
Image
Button-Link
Button-Text
Long-Text
Card-Extra-Field (can be many)
Filter (can be many)
Vote
Map-Lat
Map-Long
Detailed-Page-Title
Detailed-Page-Description
Detailed-Page-Image
Detailed-Page-Button-Text
Detailed-Page-Button-Link
Detailed-Page-Extra-Field (can be many)

Cards Templates

Different cards template are avalible in the "Layout tab".

You can try them all to see how each of them will look like simply selecting them from the dropdown menu in the "Layout" tab.

Your data will stay the same in the "Cards" tab.

Business Template
Business Template 2
Jobboard Template
Events Template
Table Template
Digital Nomads
Voting Template

Filters

Select filter columns

In the "Cards" tab please select a type "Filter" for each column that you want to apply filtering and the filter buttons will be created automatically.

Click to open Google Sheet

1 Filter Column = 1 Filter Category

You can add comma separation in the cell, be be filterable by different values in the same category. Example: Rock, Pop, Jazz

Filter Logic

Different filter logic is avalible in the "Layout" tab.

Single filters
Multi filters
Dropdown (Single)
Dropdown (Multi)

You can switch or hide them in the Layout tab.

Single Filters

These filters are acting like clickable buttons. When the user click on the the button data will be filtered and show.

1 row of filter buttons = 1 Filter Category Column

Each filter buttons are creating and updating automaticaly from all unqie values in your Filter column that you should select on the previous step.

Users can filter your cards by one single creteria. For example a brand name.

How to use:

Layout tab -> Filters -> Single Filter

Multi filters

Looks like a Single Filter but users can filter your cards based multiple creterias. For exampe "Brand Name" AND "Type" AND "Style" AND "Price"

How to use:

Layout tab -> Filters -> Multi Filter

Unlike of previus filters that where showing all their values at once, these filter values are hidden by a dropdown. When the user click on the dropdown, it will be expanded and the user can selecting its value.

1 Dropdown = 1 Filter Category Column

Drop Down Caterory name is a Filter Column name.

Each filter dropdown is creating and updating automaticaly from all unqie values in your Filter column that you should select on the previous step.

How to use:

Layout tab -> Filters -> Dropdown (Single)

Looks like a Dropdown (Single) Filter but users can filter your cards based multiple creterias when selecting multple dropdown values. For exampe "Brand Name" AND "Type" AND "Style" AND "Price"

Layout tab -> Filters -> Dropdown (Multi)

Unqiue URLs for your Filter Pages

Each filter page will have a nice unqiue URL. Examples:

All these URLs will be added to the sitemap.

Dynamic Titles on Filter Pages

Since each filter will have it's own unqie page you can customize the text to make unqiue titles.

You can customize each filter header how it will looks like.

Click to open

In the settings tab change these fields:

SEO. Filter Page Title SEO - header title text pattert
SEO. Filter Page Description - header description (subtitle) text pattern
Filter and Search. How many results found - for

You can use these special words as variables for dynamic text on your pages

{keyword}
{count}

You should use at least one of these keywords to make it work

Examples:

Best {keyword} Headphones
{count} {keyword} Headphones Found
{count} Found

Use Google Sheets Formulas for dynamic text values

You can generate a dynamic date, using =TODAY() formula. You can show a months and a year that will always updated automatically as to a current months and a year: August, 2020

Formula example:

=CONCATENATE("{keyword} Headphones ", TEXT(TODAY(),"MMMM"),", ",TEXT(TODAY(),"yyyy"))

Detail Page Pop Up window

To add more information about the item you can use Detailed Pages (Modal Pop-Up)

Once user will click on the item, the pop-up windown will open with detailed information.

The page url will not change. It's also works in embedded websites.

How it looks like:

Click to preview

Select types

You need select a type for each column in the "Cards" tab that have data for your Detailed Pages (Modal Pop-Up):

Detailed-Page-Title
Detailed-Page-Description (support's Markdown syntax)
Detailed-Page-Image
Detailed-Page-Button-Text
Detailed-Page-Button-Link
Detailed-Page-Extra-Field (can be many)

Detailed-Page-Description column supports Markdown syntax so you can format your page with header titles, lists, new lines, etc. More info here: https://sheet2site.com/markdown

Click to open Google Sheet

Set the Setting

In the settings tab make sure that you set Detailed Page or Modal to: Modal Pop-up Page

Click to open Google Sheet

Detail Page Sub Pages

With Sheet2Site you can create detail pages to show more detail information in the separate url.

For SEO is important to not just have a one page website. Google likes websites with more pages and good content. To be able to do it, you can create more pages which will show detailed information.

How it looks like:

Click to preview

Unique URLs

Pages will have unique url.

The slug will be created automatically from the title of the Card

URL examples:

Sheet2Site:


https://api.sheet2site.com/api/v3/index.php/?key=1iG2CItl610VWam2M3kx-5HJU5N_nqUzJ4hFHI9FMKaU&page=rolex-oyster-perpetual-explorer

Custom domain:


example.com/rolex-oyster-perpetual-explorer

Sitemap

Each of these pages will be added to the sitemap.xml (on custom domain) which will be good for SEO.

Select types

You need select a type for each column in the "Cards" tab that have data for your pages. The same as for Modal Pop-up.

Detailed-Page-Title
Detailed-Page-Description (support's Markdown syntax)
Detailed-Page-Image
Detailed-Page-Button-Text
Detailed-Page-Button-Link
Detailed-Page-Extra-Field (can be many)

Click to open Google Sheet

Detailed-Page-Description column supports Markdown syntax so you can format your page with header titles, lists, new lines, etc. More info here: https://sheet2site.com/markdown

Set the Setting

In the settings tab make sure that you set Detailed Page or Modal to: Detailed Page

You can switch this setting to see the difference between Detailed Pages and Modal. Types in the Cards tab will be the same, so you don't need to change them.

Click to open Google Sheet

Detail Page About

Click to open

You can also create a simple pages like About, Contact us, etc.

Just open a "Detailed Pages" tab and add there your title and the text.

You can also add an image and the button with a link.

All these pages will be automatically added to the website's navbar, so your users can find them.

The slug will be created automatically from the title of your page.

Please use Template: Markdown

Click to open

QR Codes

QR codes becomes very popular these days and you might want to create them and add to your website.

What is a QR Code?

QR Codes is a technology that allows to open links very easy in 1 click just using your camera app. When the user will scan QR code image, your phone will recognize it and conver into a link to will be open in the browser. It can be any link, for example a link to a form or detailed page or restaurant menu or a link to download an app.

Luckily for us it can be done directly in Google Sheets for free using one simple formula.

How to create a QR Code in Google Sheets?

Please using these steps to create a QR Code.

Open your Google Sheet
In the cell add this formula "https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=150x150&cht=qr&chl=example.com"

Sheet2Site will recognize it and will change it to an image.

You can also use it in more dynamic way. Instead of writting each website manullay you can change it to a refference to a cell.

Example: "https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=150x150&cht=qr&chl=example.com" & A1

Map

You can add a map to your website:

Click to preview

To add a map please go to the Layout tab in your Google Sheet and switch state Show ON .

Select types

You need select a type for each column in the "Cards" tab that have map information (lat and long).

Click to open Google Sheet

Maps and Filters

Once the user will click on a filter (let's say a neighborhood), the map will also filtered automatically and show only filtered locations

Click to open

Link will also looks nice: https://www.sheet2site.com/templates/real-estate/category-canggu

Maps and Detailed Pages (Modal Pop-up)

It makes much more sence if there will be some additional information showing up when the user will click on the location of the place:

Click to open

Maps settings:

In the Map tab you can add some settings:

Zoom Level - how close you want to show your map from 1 to 15, where 15 is the maximum zoom
Map center Long - your maps longitude cordinates
Map center Lat - your maps lattiture cordinates

Table Template

Important: All below working only in table template

Table template allows you to make from your Google Sheet as a nice looking table on your website. You can embed it to your existing website or create full a website.

Using your own table

If you have your own table, please select a Teble template first and paste your table into the Cards tab. Template data will be deleted.

Default Sorting

When the user loads the webiste, the initial sorting of the table is the same as in your Google Sheet. If you will change the sorting in your Google Sheet, the website's table sorting will change as well

Column Sorting

Each column can be sorted separately when you click on Table's header. Data type of the column is reacognizing by default.

Current types that are supported:

String
Date

2020-03-21

Number

20000

20,000

Currency

$100,000

40%

Important!
To identify column types correctly please do not add different data types in the cell. For example: You can have a "$100,000" and "Not exist". This will do the sorting not correctly. Please leave the cell empty.

To remove errors like N/A you might use IFERROR formula.

Cell types

If the cell has there data it will shot this cell in a spefific way like a link or an image.

Images Links - if the link has .jpeg, jpg, png, unsplash, unsplash table will show the image
Links - if the link has http, mailto: it will be shown as a link with a highlighted color.

Search

Searching is executing by all cells in the sheet. If the data is exist in any cell it will be shown.

If you only want to search only by certain columns, you can add a zero based comma separted list of column numbers that you want to include in the search in the Settings sheet, under the option 'Search only by column'.
So for example, if you only want to search based on your first column, set the 'Search only by column' value to 0. If you want to exclude the 3rd column then the value would be: 0,1,2,4,5

Filters

To use filters in a table template you need to add -Filter before each column where you want to apply filtering. Like this:

Also don't forget to add each filter in the Filters tab:

Table Options

Here are some options that you can use in columns headers.

-Filter Filter by this column. Example Country-Filter
-Filter-Hide Filter by this column but hide it in the table. Example Country-Filter-Hide
-Hide Hide each column. Might be useful for some calculations. Example of how you need to name a column header: Current Year-Hide
-Button Make a button for each cell of the column. Example of how you need to name a column header: Learn More-Button.

Special Columns

$color this column will change the hex code color of the row. It's hidden. Example of how you need to name a row: #f5f5f5 or yellow

Embed

If you already have a website and want to embed your spreadsheet data in a visual way you can easily do it by adding a code snippet

Sheet2Site Embed support all major website builders such as Squrespace, Wix, WordPress, Weebly. It aslo support custom website build with code.

It will keep your logo, navigation bar footer. It will be on a separete page like: yourwebsite.com/directory

How to embed Sheet2Site to your webiste?

Here is how you can create your own embed site with your own data:

Sheet2Site Google Sheet add-on must be installed Install
Template must be created
Menu Add-ons -> Sheet2Site -> Embed in your website

Copy code snippet

Paste it into your website builder as embedded code. Let me know if you need any help.

Version History

You can see all your website versions in your Google Sheet.

File -> Version History -> See Version History

You can see all your changes and you can revert back to any of them. It might be very useful when you accidentically meesed-up your website. To do it select a version and press restore in the top left corver.

Google Forms

For most website is important to collect many types of information from the users. You can add a Google Form to your website.

How to create a Google Form

The easiest way to collect data from your users is to https://forms.new

Get the form link:

Press Send button (top right cornver)
Select link tab. It should be the second tab from the left
Copy
Do not use Shorten URL!

Your link should look like this: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfedx2oDDtBSlMn9yM4PGTexY-QtdScdcxSpZbRmTLC-IQD_Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

Put this link into Sheet2Site Navbar tab

Open your Sheet2Site Google Sheet
Go to Navbar tab
Add a new row

Link name: Submit (or any other)
Type of link: Button
Link destination / sheet2site URL: {your_google_form_link}
Link shown in address bar when clicked: {your_google_form_link}

It should be the same link

Now when you will update your website and click on the Button you should see a modal pop-up with the Google Form that should look like this:

Google Form Tips

Here are some useful tips about Google Forms which can help you to automate some typical action and make your life easier.

Tip 1: Customize color and style

You can custimize your Google Form style. For example:

Header Image
Theme Color
Background Color
Font Style

To change all of these things please click on paint palette icon on the top right corner. Changes will be save and updated automatically

Tip 2: Save responses to Google Sheet

You can save all your form responses to the Google Sheet. You don't need to use Zapier or any other third parties tools. Google Forms support Google Sheet export automatically and it can be setup just in a couple of seconds:

1. Go to responses tab in your Google Form and select "Create Spreadsheet"

2. You can create a new spreadsheet or select an existing one.

2.1 If you want to automatically add new responses your Sheet2Site website, please select your Sheet2Site Google Sheet:

3. You should see a new tab that was created in your Google Sheet.

Tip 3: Email notifications for new responses

To know when some will submit the form you can active email notifications, otherwise you will need to open this form regulary to check if someone submit it or no.

How to enable Google Form email notifications if someone will submit the form

Create a new form forms.new or open an existing one
Responses
Click 3 dots
Get email notifications for new responses

Tip 4: Pre-fill Google Forms with URL Parameters

The cool thing about Google Forms is that you can pre-fill your form with some specific value in the link. Let's say you list of items and the ordering form and when the user when click on the item he will open the form with prefilled item id

How to pre-fill Google Form link

Create a new form forms.new or open an existing one
Click 3 dots in the top right corner
Get pre-filled link
Select field in your form that you want to pre-fill
Press Get link
Press Copy link in the bottom left corner pop-up

You should get a link like this: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeS97tfbZT1wrU0AM_gMBv_67_FkujKrQtSL-i5hlzwcE5X1g/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.866939081;=id-123456

where &entry.866939081;= is your filed and id-123456 is a pre-filled value.

Typeform

You can add a embeded Typeform that will pop-up when a user will click a link or a button

To add a typeform please add a typeform link like https://andreyazimov.typeform.com/to/fM7ndm in your Google Sheet navbar tab

Demo (click post a job in the top right corner)

Import Typeform to Google Sheet

Also you can automatically import result of your Typeform to Google Sheet

Open it from your Workspace, then click on Connect. Now you can see our integrations, so click on Connect in the Send responses to Google Sheets box.

To integrate Mailchimp to your Sheet2Site website you need to get the Mailchimp subscribe url.

Open your Mailchimp account
Lists -> Select a list (or create a new list)
Signup forms
Find copy/paste onto your site (code snippet). It should looks like this:

Find the url in form action tag
Copy the link (without quotes). Looks like this:
https://whentosurf.us15.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=b9909498bfcf0094d3b867d70&id=58a5b633c3`
Paste it to your Google Sheet -> settings tab -> Call to action button Link:

Here is how you can prevent it from copying, download, or printing:

To be able to use Sheet2Site you need to make your Google Sheet public. This means that anyone on the internet with a link to your Google Sheet can see data, but can not edit it. If you have some sensitive information, please do not use Sheet2Site. The Google Sheet link may be found in the HTML source code of the Sheet2Site website and is not private.

But you can do certain things that could make harder to do it:

Prevent sheet from being copying and download

Open your Google Sheet
Click on a green Share button in the top left corner. Share with people and groups window should appear.
Click on the Settings gear icon in the top left corner of the Share with people, and groups window.

Disable checkbox: Viewers and commenters can see the option to download, print and copy

Wait once your settings will be updated. You should see an notification
Click Back
Click Done

Hide the tabs in the Google sheet

You can hide the tabs in your Google Sheet.

Open your Google Sheet
Choose the tab that you want to hide in the bottom of the page
Right click: Hide sheet

Once you will do it people can't copy your Sheet, at least in an easy way.

Chat

Register in Crisp Chat
Create a website
Open settings page
Choose your website
Setup instruction
Copy Website ID
Open your Google Sheet. Main-tab page.
Paste to Crisp Chat ID

You can use their iOS and Android mobile apps to stay in touch with your users

Customize Headers Titles for each page

Filter Pages - All filters buttons now has its own unique page:

SEO Page Example

How it looks in Google

Meta title and meta description is adding automatically to the website. Here how it looks in Google:

Beatiful Links

Each link looks beatiful with a slug e.g. example.com/category-san-francisco

Create SEO pages

Automatically generated Unique tag page e.g. example.com/category-san-francisco, /about, /contact-us

Customize Meta Tags e.g. 36 San Francisco Developer Jobs in August 2020

You can customize each page with a text patterns. It supports special variables like {keyword} and {count} that can makes your headlines much more SEO friendly.

Settings tab:

Sitemap XML

Sitemap XML that adding and updating all these links automatically

It is indexing in Google instantly.

All these category pages and all other detailed pages are adding and updating automatically to the website's sitemap:

Disqus

Now you can add a commets to each of your sub pages using Disqus The internet's favorite comment plug-in that makes it easy to make a comment section. So will be able to create a discussions, efficiently moderate comments, and build engaged community.

Let's say you are yu have a website with list of apps. Each app have its own sub page. And each sub page have a comment section in the bottom.

How to add Disqus to your website?

Register in Disqus
Add your website
Get the code snippet. It should looks like this:


<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script>
var disqus_config = function () {
this.page.url = PAGE_URL; // Replace PAGE_URL with your page's canonical URL variable
this.page.identifier = PAGE_IDENTIFIER; // Replace PAGE_IDENTIFIER with your page's unique identifier variable
};
(function() { // DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE
var d = document, s = d.createElement('script');
s.src = 'https://menubar-co.disqus.com/embed.js';
s.setAttribute('data-timestamp', +new Date());
(d.head || d.body).appendChild(s);
})();
</script>
<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="https://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>

We do not need this all code. We just need the source url. It's located in s.src =.It should look liks this https://menubar-co.disqus.com/embed.js
Put this url in to Settings tab to Disqus URL

Examples:

Home page: example.com

Subpage with comments: example.com/sub-page

Google Sheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets

Google Analytics

To be able to aconnect Google Analytics to your website you need to setup a property and get a Get Tracking ID. Please check official documentation .

Tracking ID should looks like this: UA-51392658-9

After you get it please open your Sheet, settings tab and paste your Tracking ID to Google Analytics ID

To check if it's working open "Realtime" -> "Overview" and visit your website. You should see at least 1 visitor:

Links tracking

Sheet2Site allows you to see the stat of most clicked links from your website via Google Analytics.

After you setup Google Analytics open your website and click on some of your links (maybe 10-20).

How to check outgoing links:

Behavior
Events
Pages
Change the date that incuded today in the date picker (top right corner) to make sure that data is included:

Select home page / in the table
Outgoing Link:

You should see all links that users clicked:

Data should updated in a couple of mins or less. You should see in your GA dashboard of links where clicks were performed.

Amazon Affiliate

With Sheet2Site you can build Amazon Affiliate Websites. You can read more about Amazon Affiliate Program .

You can start with Business Template , but it's up to you what template will be better for you idea.

You need to find a niche of goods that you would like to sell. Let's say you want to sell books.

Example: thebooksbywomen.com

After you added all the books to content tab including: Name, Author, Image, Genre, Link

The link of a book should have your tag like: https://www.amazon.com/Yes-Please-Amy-Poehler/dp/006226835X/?tag=kalinasapps02-20/?tag=kalinasapps02-20

And finally you need to add your Amazon Affiliate ID to the settings tab that looks like this: 3e0ebe95-36bb-4b10-9a0c-e9c442d4d19

Troubleshooting

Here are some tips how you can troubleshoot your website in different situations:

I accidentally messed-up my website

No problem. You can restore your website from the version history

Javascript

You can add Javascript scripts to your website. It could be pretty useful to extend standart functionallity. For example:

Sharing buttons - to make visitors share your website in social media.
Discourse - allows users write comments on your website
Intercom - Live chat to talk to your users and send campaigns.
Facebook Pixel - snippet of JavaScript code that allows you to track visitor activity on your website. Could be usefull if you are running facebook ads.
Mailchimp pop-up window - if subscribe form in header is not enought you can add a pop-up that can be triggered when user spend on your website X seconds.
and much more...

How to add Javascripts to your website

Open your Google Sheet
Advanced tab
Javascript Script

Your script should be wrapped in the script tag

    <script async src="">
    </script>

You have a possibility to choose where you want to add this script:

Before head tag close
Before body tag close

CSS Style

You can add custom css style. This mean that you can customize design of the website for your own neads. Just add style tag inside that custom script cell it will work.

For example you might want to center extra fields in the detailed pages

<style>
    .detailed-page-extra-fields-all {
        text-align: center
    }
</style>

How to add custom CSS style to your website

Open your Google Sheet
Advanced tab
Custom Javascript (it's using the same cell for styles as for scripts.)

Custom Domain

1. Change DNS Settings

You can connect your Sheet2Site website in 3 different ways:

Connect as a Root domain
Connect as a Subdomain
Embed to your existing website

Here are some instructions how to change DNS settings:

1.1 - Connect as a root domain

Please one choose that you like more:

As naked domain: example.com
As www domain: www.example.com

As naked domain:

To connect example.com please add this DNS record:

Type	Host	Value	TTL
CNAME Record	`@`	`sheet2sitedns.com`	Automatic

Notes:

If you can't add @ value to CNAME Record try do this:

Pease make sure that there is not existing A Record with @

. If such record is exist please remove it and try again. This should works for GoDaddy.

Try to use you full website name


example.com

If it still didn't work, please connect your domain as www

If you are using


Cloudflare

to manage your DNS, please switch from


Proxied


DNS only

for all Sheet2Site CNAME records:

As www domain:

If you already added naked domain records records, please ignore this step.

To connect www.example.com please add this DNS record:

Type	Host	Value	TTL
CNAME Record	`www`	`sheet2sitedns.com`	Automatic

1.2 Redirects

No matter what you will choose, the vistiros of your webiste will be redirect from www to naked and vise versa, so you will get all the visitors. Example:


example.com


www.example.com


example.com

You need to add this DNS record:

Type	Host	Value	TTL
CNAME Record	`www`	`@`	Automatic

Alterenativly if you can't add @ you can setup a redirect you can setup it in your domain provider. Here are some instructions:

1.3 - Connect as a Subdomain

You can connect your subdomain domain jobs.example.com to your sheet2site website in 2 different ways:

Please one choose that you like more:

As naked domain: jobs.example.com
As www domain: www.jobs.example.com

As naked subdomain:

To connect jobs.example.com please add these 2 records:

Type	Host	Value	TTL
CNAME Record	`jobs`	`sheet2sitedns.com`	Automatic
CNAME Record	`www.jobs`	`jobs`	Automatic

As www subdomain:

If you already added naked subdomain records records, please ignore this step.

To connect www.jobs.example.com please add these 2 records:

Type	Host	Value	TTL
CNAME Record	`www.jobs`	`sheet2sitedns.com`	Automatic
CNAME Record	`jobs`	`www.jobs`	Automatic

1.4 - Embed to your existing website

If you already have a website and want to embed your spreadsheet data in a visual way you can easily do it by adding a code snippet

Sheet2Site Embed support all major website builders such as Squrespace, Wix, WordPress, Weebly. It aslo support custom website build with code.

It will keep your logo, navigation bar footer. It will be on a separete page like: example.com/directory

You can embed your Sheet2Site page to your existing website with Sheet2Site Embed .

1.4 Check Your DNS

To check if you added DNS settings correctly please enter your domain (without http or https)

3. FAQ

3.1 How long does it take?

Connecting custom domain may take up to 24h but usually faster. Please be patient. I will message you after domain will be connected.

Please send me a screenshot once you are finished.

3.2 Do I need to buy custom domain?

Yes, you do. You can register domains on namecheap or on anyother domain provider.

.com domains are generally cheap and cost like $11 / year.

3.2 I have already an existing website on my own domain

You can embed it to your existing websitesite with Sheet2Site Embed .

Alterenativly, you can connect your subdomain like jobs.example.com and you can still keep your current home page example.com that will work independently or you can embed sheet2site into your page using code snippet.

Stripe

How to connect Stripe to your Sheet2Site website

To be able to use Stripe you need to have a Stripe account and create a Google Form first, so you can get user's email and additional information that you need.

Just to let you know that the form response will be saved only if the payment will be successful, in other words if the users cancelled the payment, the data that he entered in the form will not be saved in the form as a response (and Google Sheet), but you will be able to see this data in your Stripe cancelled transactions as meta data.

Please follow these steps to connect Stripe to your website:

Create a Native Form , connect it to your website and save the Google Form link.
Link should looks like this (for edit Google Form not for preview it): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Hz4i_ie_0rxkIqPsRvOm4iDxprQdmvmcwlc193wXm-s/ edit

Do not use these links:
- Short links: https://forms.gle/oyhMhCefmsZJGYNNGA
- Preview links: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexQk1x0Tte2J_-mkEH-yqalmdLnMlAH68NogNLTGWx3gkHUQ/ viewform

Create Stripe Publishable Key and Secret Key .
Define price and currency, for example 99 USD.

Text Formatting

To make your content look better, you can format it with basic HTML Syntax. You can add titles, lists, images, links and more by inserting these HTML tags in your Google Sheet, which will be displayed on your website.

For example let's say that you want to format your vacancy description:

You can add this code snippen to your decription:

<div>
    <h3>We would like to hear from you if you have...</h3>
    <ul>
        <li>A deep understanding of Agile frameworks and Lean principles, at the level of the principles and values,
            to enable appropriate application as well as innovation</li>
        <li>A strong ability to understand complex systems, relentlessly managing the technical and business risk
            landscape, anticipating and mitigating emerging issues </li>
        <li>Experience facilitating and leading continual planning processes in a complex and exciting environment
        </li>
        <li>Proven experience on achieving goals and hitting deadlines, based on company-wide objectives, regardless
            of the obstacles</li>
        <li>An ability to facilitate, catalyse and lead organisational change and transformation, drawing on change
            management, organisation culture, organisation development and systems thinking</li>
        <li>A high level of emotional intelligence, excellent communication skills, ability to listen with empathy
            and enable people to act by increasing insight</li>
        <li>You’re excited to be part of the vibrant Delivery Community at Improbable, challenging and improving
            processes to increase the effectiveness of a team or division.</li>
    </ul>
</div>

Import JSON

A lot of good structured data is available through APIs like weather, ratings, currency rates and many more. APIs give you this data in JSON format and now it's possible to import JSON data directly into Google Sheet.

To be able to do it you need a custom function that called ImportJSON

Open your Google Sheet -> Tools -> Script Editor
Rename it to ImportJson.gs
Delete the placeholder content
Copy this script
Paste to your script and save it (click save icon)

Go back to your sheet and try to call the function from your cell:
=ImportJSON("http://date.jsontest.com", "/date", "noInherit, noTruncate")

You should see something like this:

More information how to use it here . Thanks to @bradjasper who created it.

Payments

The best way to know if people like your product is they're actually pay for it. Here are some ways how you can charge your clinets. You can add them as call to action button link.

PayPal

PayPal button is probably the easiest way to get money. You can create a simple link with your name and the amount of money. Example: https://www.paypal.me/andreyazimovpay/9.99usd .

To create such a link open PayPal.me and follow the instructions

Gumroad

Gumroad is great payment systems for creators. You can charge your clients for single time payment products or with reccurent payments. Each product will have a special like like https://gumroad.com/l/awesomejobboard

With Gumroad you can withdraw money to PayPal.

To start using Gumroad please register there and add a product and a price.

Please read their official documentation about getting paid and other details.

What is Sheet2Site

What sites you can make?

Should I create a new webiste or Embed to existing?

Why should I use Sheet2Site?

Getting Started

1. Install Sheet2Site Google Sheet Add-on:

2. Share the sheet

3. Quick Start

You should get a link

Table options

Embed this table

4. Choose a template

5. Edit your website

6. Push changes

Basics

Tabs:

Layout

Design

Navbar

Header

Header template

Header titles

Call to action

Images

Find in Google

Images hosting

Imgur

Bulk Images Upload

ImgBB

Find on Unslpash

Find on unDraw

Display Images from Google Drive

Cards

How to create Cards?

Select data types

Available Column Types:

Cards Templates

Filters

Select filter columns

Filter Logic

Single Filters

Multi filters

Dropdown (Single)

Dropdown (Multi)

Unqiue URLs for your Filter Pages

Dynamic Titles on Filter Pages

Detail Page Pop Up window

Select types

Set the Setting

Detail Page Sub Pages

Unique URLs

Sitemap

Select types

Set the Setting

Detail Page About

QR Codes

What is a QR Code?

How to create a QR Code in Google Sheets?

Map

Select types

Maps and Filters

Maps and Detailed Pages (Modal Pop-up)

Maps settings:

Table Template

Using your own table

Default Sorting

Column Sorting

Cell types

Search

Filters

Table Options

Special Columns

Embed

How to embed Sheet2Site to your webiste?

Version History

Google Forms

How to create a Google Form

Get the form link:

Put this link into Sheet2Site Navbar tab

Google Form Tips