Blog Flak

Yeah, I know, I’ve been writing about Google a lot but those guys are always doing something cool aren’t they? I got an invite in my inbox this morning to try out a new service called Google Pages. What is it? It’s a free website hosted by Google. No, it’s not a blog, it’s a website. It has a fairly easy to use “what you see is what you get” page editor, a bunch of different page styles to choose from, each with several layout choices like 2 columns or 3 columns.

They claim that no HTML skills are needed to create a page but you can edit the HTML directly if you wish. I found that having some HTML skills was very handy for setting up links though. You can have only one site attached to your Google Gmail address but it can have multiple pages. The address to your site works out as “yourgmailname.googlepages.com”.

In about 20 minutes time I was able to create a copy of part of this page with very little trouble. You can see it here. Yes, you can upload your own images to your page with 100mb of storage available and no apparent monthly download bandwidth limit. You can very easily preview your work and then publish with one click.

I read the terms of use pretty thoroughly and there’s very little or no limitations on what type of content you can place on the site either. If you want your own Google Page go here and apply for one!

Talk about this in the forum.

tags: google pages, website