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Publishing your Site
Publishing is like saving your website to the web. It can still be private or public, depending on what you did in Setting up your Site. Once you publish, you will have two separate areas: your editing view and your published view, the one that you will be sharing with people.
You can continue to access and edit your site by clicking on sites.google.com or through the web panel. Remember that you may have different versions, depending upon whether you create sites through a personal or school account (you can do both).
As is typical for Google products, your site will save every few seconds while you are editing it. But nobody will be able to see changes until you Publish them. If you want a chance to review changes, you can check of the Review changes and publish setting (see Settings page).
TIPS
When you are ready to publish, make sure that you haven't invited everyone on the web to edit your page. Again, check the Sharing settings (see Settings page).
You can change your website name if it is available. Go up to Publish and you can find this option under Publish Settings. If it's not available, you may need to play with the name using similar settings.
Sharing your Site
Caution: Do not give out the web link that shows up at the top of your editing version. It will be a longer Google link with the word "edit" at the end.
Give out your site link by clicking on the chain icon at the top and giving out that address. You can give a link for the site or any page. The link is usually short and starts with sites.google.com, unless you've purchased your own domain.
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