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Revision as of 11:59, 27 January 2008
 Google Page Creator Logo | |
| Developer(s) | |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Any (web based application) |
| Type | Multimedia Internet publishing |
| Website | pages.google.com |
Google Page Creator is a website creation and hosting service by Google.
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
- Three (3) unique sub-domains are able to be registered per new user
- 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.
Experimental features
Since Google Page Creator's release, Google has added many "experimental features", including the ability to add widgets, cropping of images, or resizing of images to any size the user wants (not just the four preset sizes).
Multiple sites
In 2006 Google Page Creator allowed users to create four additional sites with your choice of name e.g. http://nameofyourchoice.googlepages.com.
Now, Google Page Creator only allows 3 sites per account, meaning two other than your email address/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.[1] 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.
References
External links
- Google Page Creator website
- Google Page Creator Terms of Use
- Google Page Creator Help
- Google Page Creator FAQ
- Google Page Creator Help - Rami
- Google Page Creator FAQ - Rami
- Google Page Creator Tips- Rami
