steps to creating web resources for groups

This post is about the usual steps to creating websites for groups using Google resources.

1. Create a Google Group
2. Create a Website using Google Sites
• Share the entire Google Group with the new Google Site 
• Create the following pages
• Announcements
• Discussions
• Embed the Google Group discussions into the Discussion page
• Calendar
• Contact Me
3. Create a Google Calendar
• Share the calendar with the Google Group
• make the calendar public
• retrieve the xml, ical, and html
• Embed the Calendar into the Site's Calendar page
4. Create a blog for announcements so that announcements can be easily updated via email
• Burn the blog feed in Feedburner
• Embed the feed into the Site's Announcements page
5. Zoho Creator for contact page is better than Google Forms