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Google Pages Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-the-tool-for-you dept.

Tam Hanna writes "We got access to a Google Pages review account. Get the full scoop on what Google Pages can do." The gist of it is that "Google Pages Is Not For You." It's for your mom ;)

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  1. Re:allready /.ed by tpgp · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ooks like the page has allready been /.ed, any one got a mirror?

    Mirrordot

    As for the "Suitable for Mum, not slashdotters" comment, its 100MB of webspace for free

    That makes it suitable for me - even just to use to transfer large files around (when I'm behind a firewall that only lets port 80 through)

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  2. Good for Web Designers too! by Toreo+asesino · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've actually found this tool very usefull for starting out when designing webpages too.

    It produces perfect cross-browser compatible seperation of CSS/HTML; no tables for one thing, and there's a whole bunch of template layouts to get started with (2 column. The rest just involves saving the source, tweaking the CSS to your own look & feel and adding content! Granted, the layouts are never exactly what you're looking for, but still, it's a good starting point.

    Well done Google!

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  3. Re:so yea, it is for your mom by Suppafly · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Of course FTP is important for professional webmasters, but private users dont need FTP or MySQL. They need an good but easy web hosting solution.

    That's really an annoying stance to take though since a lot of 'private users' quickly outgrown the 'easy web hosting solution' and have to switch to full fledged hosting somewhere else. I better system would be to allow their hosting to group with their users.

  4. Google pages *is* for me! by nicestepauthor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have been maintaining a website on sourceforge for years now. I had to create the pages, then tar them up and use scp to transfer the tarball to SF's server, then log in and untar it, change authorites on the files so they could be served, do minor corrections with vi, etc. Nothing challenging but tedious as hell. I would have probably released more files if I didn't have to update the website each time.

    I decided that I wanted to simplify the website, put everything on one page, pretty it up with a stylesheet, etc. I had no time to do this. Then Google Pages came along and I was able to create my new website by doing copy and paste from the old website. I was able to try many different stylesheets before deciding on the one I wanted, and I published the website by pressing one button. This combined with what sourceforge gives me is exactly what I wanted.

    You can check out the website at http://nicestep.sourceforge.net/ . (You'll be redirected to the google pages version from my original site.)