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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.
for a free service that gives you 100mb of storage its not bad. I signed up and tested it. Your pages do not have any adds and you get 100mb for free. Even if you do not want to create a website its not bad for hosting picture files and other things.
Shame that it can't be used in Opera. I'll be loading up Firefox now to have a go of it though.
Microsoft and Google have this in common. They both did one or two things extremely well which resulted in insane success. Soon after this, they both started producing products in all conceivable fields.
Now, I agree with the author in the case of Microsoft as they started making products that anyone would buy just because the name "Microsoft" was on them (Visual J++ anyone?). I just created my homepage and was frustrated with how little I could do. Oh well, what did I spend on this? Nothing, a few seconds of my time, that's all.
I'm completely happy with Google trying to re-invent everything because when they do, it's more or less free for me. There's no harm because I didn't pay a ton of money for the product like I would have in Microsoft's case.
My work here is dung.
Slightly annoying, no safari support yet, only internet explorer and firefox (couldn't check opera).
Combination - fun iPhone puzzling
The markup seems to be striving to be as bad as Front Page. Somebody should tell them that <font> elements are very GeoCities 1997, that <p> elements can't be nested, and that creating a bunch of <div class="foo"> elements isn't that much better than nested tables. I thought Google could afford to hire competent people?
Drew McLellan has knocked together a page in which all of the above flaws can be seen.
Using HTML in email is like putting sound effects on your phone calls. Just say <strong>no</strong>.
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?
A chuckle from the FAQ:
11. I don't want my landlady to find out about my pet ferret. How can I unpublish my pages?
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.
Had a play earlier as I was worried you might be susceptible to a similar thing as the MySpace "Samy is my hero" style XSS attack.
The following was witnessed:
So for all of the basics, the Google Page thingy passes all basic tests on XSS attacks.
Well done :)
I'm even recommended it on my forum already because the security gives me enough peace of mind to not regret doing so.
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.
Not sure if there's a limit to the data transferred.
;-)
Well, it sure does look that way
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.
Either that or the Slashdot Effect has been renamed The Hiccups.
. . .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.
And thank God you don't need a webpage for that. I, for one, welcome our direct to the mind meme-junk beaming overlords.
KFG
1. Highlight the entire agreement that you have to agree to abide by.
2. Delete it.
3. Enter the text "I agree that Google will pay me $1 Million Dollars (*cue Dr. Evil*) if Page Creator is ever unavailable for me to use."
4. Profit!
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.
Since when has Google ever cared about W3C validation? Google.com has 51 errors, an amazingly high number considering how small the page is visually.
For more information, click here.
I just threw this up real fast...
...just linked some images relating to google's censorship in China. I like the idea of having google host it with "googlepages.com" in the url. :)
http://beveryevil.googlepages.com/
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?