Google Release Free Website Service

Posted by Tom Graham 3 hours ago on Neowin.net

Google have launched Google Page Creator, a free website creation tool.

Perhaps best described as Geocities for the 21st century, Page Creator takes the Google AJAX magic and applies it to website design. The process is simple, albeit, at this time, a little buggy.

In a fashion remarkably similar to Powerpoint, users can pick from a number of themes (or change them on the go) and text layouts. It makes use of a rather clever What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor, so users don't have to face the prospect of editing HTML (but the option exists). Best of all, in true ground breaking fashion, Google lets you have 100MB of space for free, and it doesn't even put ads on your homepage.

It's all very easy; of course, that's the idea. Google have identified an area of the web which has garnered little interest in the last few years. "Free" providers traditionally have provided a lack lustre offering designed to try and persuade people to go up to pay-for options. No longer. Google Pages sees the company delve into a natural but new field, and will no doubt be popular.

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Not good for our business.

Google is awesome. They're taking over the net.

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i wonder if its possible to make google friendly pages (the html) so clients could easily edit it
this could actually help us, make pages friendly for that the google editor and hopefully google develop a paid version which is like cpanel (being able to add domains and databases)

VIZ, any cms can do that?

I cant wait till Google comes out with gBuy or what ever it is called. I dislike Paypal at most and hoping for something better to come out. As for this system, its great and i think for people who have no experience in webdesign or html this would be perfect

Originally Posted by VIZ i wonder if its possible to make google friendly pages (the html) so clients could easily edit it this could actually help us, make ti friendly for that editor and google develop and paid version which is like cpanel (domains etc)

That dosen't make sense .

Looks interesting, but I doubt it will take over web design

Its almost about time we start calling the Internet the Googleweb.

Seems like a great resource for people with limited knowaldge. I suppose this means that there will be hundreds of annoying pointless sites popping up all over the place but atleast they wont be coded bad or even look too bad for that matter.