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Google Introduces Page Creator
Seoulstriker writes "Google has introduced an AJAX web-publishing application called Google Page Creator. The app is great for getting whatever photos, information, files you want published, and it doesn't have to be in the typical blog format. The published site is hosted at the gmail user page. There are several templates and page formats to work from, and as far as I can tell, everything is WYSIWYG. The published HTML is very clean, but it does have some leftover fragments from editing pages repeatedly. If you want to be precise, you can manually edit the HTML. There is a Google Groups page available for the service. It took about 30 seconds to get a rudimentary page online." PC World has a quick rundown on the service at their site.
Shame that it can't be used in Opera. I'll be loading up Firefox now to have a go of it though.
username@gmail.com is equal to username.googlepages.com. By running a search on google.com for the item you want to send SPAM around for, limited to the subdomains of googlepages.com, you can easily find a target audience to send spam to, since you can derive their e-mail address from the hostnames you get hits on your search from.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
-Eric (who has been using "Google Groups Beta" for several years now
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Gmail all of sudden stopped complaining that I was using opera and just worked. So they do work on it. Just have to wait for it.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
the days of everyone wanting his or her own webpage just to rant out a bunch of poorly stucture meme-junk are over as well. That's what blogs are for.
No, they're not. I've no interest in creating a blog [1], I just want to publish a few pages and some photos.
1: with the associated baggage of commenting, regular updates and whatever.
I think people forget that google does not nessesarily create these apps with a plan in mind. Many of them are the result of the personal time that google gives it's employees for personal projects. When one looks interesting they (google) elevate it within the company and wait to see where it goes.
Google Page Creator is having a little trouble right now. This is not because of anything you did; it's just a little hiccup in our system that will hopefully go away soon. We apologize for the inconvenience, and recommend you try reloading this page.
That, i believe, is what people refer to as the digg effect
Unfortunately your gmail address is also the name used in the URL for your page. At least MSN Spaces set it up so your email address wasn't part of the site URL.
You know, I don't think the intented users of Google Page Creator are going to give an ass's ass whether the code it generates is compliant with the W3C HTML 4.01 Strict specification. They just want access to basic hosting and formatting.
Take the Drew McLellan page you linked to as an example. The HTML may be atrocious, but I haven't looked at the source code, so I wouldn't know. All I see is a sparse, but not entirely inelegant, basic web page. What's so bad about that?
Google made their front page (and some of their other pages) as small as possible, byte-wise. Their home page has so many errors on it because they intentionally leave out the quotes on attributes and other stuff like that, to reduce the size of the page.
I don't know how many people visit that page every day... let's say 10 million. If they shave 1000 bytes off the size of the file by not including spaces, quotes, slashes, etc. wherever possible, they save ten gigs per day in bandwidth.
Ten gigs per day over a month is about 300 gigs of bandwidth saved per month. Plus, they do it on some other pages, not just the home page, so they're saving a lot of bandwidth overall.
On the other hand, I can't stand non-standard-compliant HTML. It just makes me cringe.