Hey guys google just made a place that you can make your own website for free but really dont take much html and stuff and only 100MB of space. If you want check it out at www.pages.google.com >> you need to loging ( you need to make an account if you dont have one alread )

Aye, i've seen this one. And i must comment on the fact that this thing is really really great for begginers. Something old now, but seriously, i've seen numerous people using it!

It's pretty old now. This has been out for what..years? Anyway, I haven't seen many people using it...I see a lot more people using blogspot whenever they want to set up their presence on the web. It's good, but I also heard that it uses your email username as your subdomain name. Which may or may not suit you, as you might not enjoy broadcasting your email out to the world.

And there has also been mentionings of possible spam--spambots could just collect all google pages urls and fill them with @gmail.com and get a whole ton of email addresses. No one has tested that though.

I find that using plain old XHTML and CSS can do wonders as you develop pages. Throw in some JavaScript to create special effects. As you move into better hosting (servers), you can start doing server-side scripting and databases, such as PHP, ASP, (My)SQL, ADO, etc. There is so much you can do with plain old coding. I believe that WYSIWYG editors are unnecessary. HTML coding programs are extremely useful because they can help you code.

I don't recommend this because published pages may be invalid (X)HTML.

HTML in my opinion is VERY useful to start out with web development and some designing. I recommend you know all or even the basics of HTML before going onto PHP and etc. I'm getting into PHP and HTML and Java and all but it takes so much time don't you think? Really hard if you don't have much patience ( me hehe ). Anyone know anywhere else legit enough to have free website hosting? I've heard from a friend this is a great place to do it.. And I probably am going to try to get one here hopefully.

Well, if you are complete newbie, then WYSIWYG is always the good thing to start out with. I did that too myself. Although, now I more into PHP and server side... so, i would recommend it for the complete newbies

i agree with lifetalk this is abosloutly for nebies at this sort of thing anyway use this if u need wyswigg

Google projects! I like them for their simplicity.

It seems a fast and easy to work WYSIWYG editor. Not only fast and easy to make the site with, but to get started. Enter google password and ready to go, instead of *shudder* lycos with a horrible interface to get working.
Going to try it out some more later, I really like the concept for WYSIWYG.

I don't see why people look down on WYSIWYG in general. For sites for intermediary or advanced users you definitely achieve better results with normal editing and use of Cascading Style Sheets - but for something quick that has to be simple it is definitely recommended for those that don't want to spend too much time learning. They usually get better results from WYSIWYG anyways.

well i agree with the WYSIWYG editor. and yah it's really a great help for beginners. i think this is also good for those making static webpages and for displaying purposes and informative ones. And yah if you're going to make a dynamic page, it's best to find something more advance. but really it's good for newbies.

Like everybody has said already, google webpages are pretty old now. I used it for about week, but I didn't really like it because you can't use things like FTP. Also I'm not really into the WYSIWYG type website builders, I like to customize it my self by hand. It's really great for beginners like people who use freewebs.