I tried this once, and liked it. But eventually went to a phpbb forum. They do, however make a great starting point for the average beginner. I personally think it was just a way to get more people on Google, than Yahoo! or MSN.

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What I hate on this server, is that you can easily upload a .jpg picture and insert it on your site ; but once your picture is uploade, you cannot remove it from the server any more. So, if you change your mind and don't want to make this image public, it's too late, no way to remove it.

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Yea, I don't like that at all. You would think they would make it a bit easier on people.

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Is it old news? I never even knew about it until reading this lol.

Either that or I forgot about it, it sounds interesting, so I should be able to like tie this to my gmail account and stuff.

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Features

The features of Google Page Creator include:

* 100 Megabytes of file storage
* 41 web templates, which can be applied to individual pages
* 4 page layouts
* Limited HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing
* Autosave - edits are automatically saved at regular intervals
* Unique sub-domain for each user's site, such as http://username.googlepages.com
* No advertisements of any kind

Storage space

Although Google Page Creator offers 100 megabytes of storage, the bandwidth limit is unknown, but there is currently a limit of 500+ files.

Files that are hosted can be linked to from any other site. Storage in Page Creator can also be utilised to upload pages to your account, without using the Web interface to create the page. [1] or [GPC4VN][2]

Experimental features

Since Google Page Creator's release, Google has added many "experimental features", such as (but not limited to) the ability to add widgets, cropping of images, or resizing of images to any size the user wants (not the preset "small", "medium", "large", and "Original Size" sizes).

Multiple sites

Recently a new feature was added to the Google page creator that allows you to create four additional sites with your choice of name e.g. http://nameofyourchoice.googlepages.com.

As of yet there has been no mention of when Page Creator will come out of the beta development stage. In the beginning, they were only allowing one site per google account, but this limitation was lifted in Autumn 2006. Google Page Creator offers its users to create four additional sites, including the original site under the account name.

Criticisms

Perhaps to address this vulnerability to spammers, Google allows the user to 'Create another site', which would be a new address within the googlepages.com domain. To avoid spammers, one can create a new site and hide the default site, which contains one's email address.

Lacking the ability to link to external CSS means in-page CSS has to be utilized, and such style code cannot change the basic structure of the templates. Some critics have claimed that the templates and limited customization will lead to similar problems (such as large numbers of sites with uninteresting, 'identikit' designs) as were experienced by the GeoCities service in the late 1990s.[3] An earlier criticism that Google's own Adsense program and similar services are not available in the Page Creator and needed a 'hack' to work has been addressed by the ability to include JavaScript in Page Creator.

Trivia

* Soon after Google launched Google Page Creator, it was swamped with millions of users. This caused them to temporarily block new users from using their new web application due to the server overload.
* The project's codename was "Trogdor."

 

 

 

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I had a client that needed a small 5 page website on a budget and he wanted to easily be able to go in and change little things like the special of the month. Google has worked wonders for him. Is it the best webpage ever, no, but it does everything he needs and it was a great solution.

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You mean your client uses http://clientname.googlepages.com or uses his own domain name? I thought googlepages.com only allows sub-domain? Please clarify because I've a domain name and my web-hosting is over soon. So want to find some alternatives. If googlepages.com able to use own domain name, I would consider.

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