I have used Google Apps to create a website before as part of Task & Finish and a way to disseminate and present findings, this was joint venture with Ellie & Alice - we used one of the templates available from the sites section you can see it here
I thought it would be good at practising creating a site from scratch as some of the templates available can be quite restrictive, I remember that trying to adapt and amend the site template we used previously was quite time consuming!
Here is my second attempt:
