[Apple Pro Underwear]

http://pages.google.com/

Google released this baby last night. It's a geocities like web editor, hoster, maker thingy. This is definitely aimed at amateurs.



The site I made to test it's features:
http://jacktse.googlepages.com/home

My thoughts:
Simple to use, works relatively easy. Easy to understand. Code is bloated for security purposes. Templates are kind of ugly. You can copy and paste from Blogger real easy. That's what I did mostly.

[screamingFit]

Too slow on my 384 DSL to be real usable.

I'm sticking with RapidWeaver.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Apple Pro Underwear

http://pages.google.com/
This is definitely aimed at amateurs.

Yeah, I'm not impressed. Doesn't look great. Very limited flexibility.
There are better blogger style services out there...

[phantomdragonz]

damn, they closed it down due to high demand!

Zach

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by phantomdragonz

damn, they closed it down due to high demand!

What are you talking about ?

[phantomdragonz]

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

What are you talking about ?

this...

"Thank you for your interest in Google Page Creator! Google Page Creator has experienced extremely strong demand, and, as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. In the meantime, please submit your email address and we will notify you as soon as we are ready to add new accounts. Thank you for your patience."

Zach

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by phantomdragonz

this...
"Thank you for your interest in Google Page Creator! Google Page Creator has experienced extremely strong demand, and, as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. In the meantime, please submit your email address and we will notify you as soon as we are ready to add new accounts. Thank you for your patience."

So you don't have a Gmail account ?
If you have a GMail account, you can start using it now.

Not that it's worth it...

[phantomdragonz]

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

So you don't have a Gmail account ?
If you have a GMail account, you can start using it now.

Not that it's worth it...

Still getting the high demand thing, it's on the main page now... in a little box on the right side...

Zach

[MaxPower2k3]

I get both the high demand warning and a GMail login box on the main page, but when i put in my gmail password it tells me that they're not accepting new users and i can't log in.

[Stradlater]

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

Not that it's worth it...

100 MB free hosting space without advertising? Seems like a pretty good deal to me. Do you have to use templates or can you upload whatever?

[ReggieX]

It makes the worst 1997-coded HTMl you've ever seen in your life, with DIV-infested FONT tags all over the place. Way to go, Google. You've made GeoCities look like an Einstein farm.

[willed]

Originally Posted by ReggieX

It makes the worst 1997-coded HTMl you've ever seen in your life, with DIV-infested FONT tags all over the place. Way to go, Google. You've made GeoCities look like an Einstein farm.

The test website that APU made looks okay. I don't think anyone was expecting blue chip companies to fire their web designers and replace them with this, but it looks good enough for an amateur who doesn't know HTML (like me).

One question: can you use the tools to make a webpage and then host it elsewhere? Or do the pages you make have to be hosted on your google webspace?

[Apple Pro Underwear]

Originally Posted by Stradlater

100 MB free hosting space without advertising? Seems like a pretty good deal to me. Do you have to use templates or can you upload whatever?

I did not see anything but templates — but I did not investigate it deeply yet.