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Google Page Creator
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Developer(s)	Google
Operating system	Any (web based application)
Typ	Multimedia Internet publishing
Website	pages.google.com

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Google Page Creator is a free beta product from Google which debuted in Google Labs on February 23, 2006 that allows any user with a Gmail account to create simple web sites.

It is a WYSIWYG editor that allows pages to be created with no knowledge of HTML or any markup language, similar to competitors such as Sandvox, Drag Drop Site Creator, and iWeb. Each user receives 100 MB of free web hosting space and an unknown bandwidth limit.

Once a Google Pages site is published, it would become available at http://username.googlepages.com.

As of yet there has been no "official" release date set, or even mentioned from Google. It is well known, though, that many Google projects can remain in "beta" form for several years. They have stated in the "about Google Page Creator" on the main website that

"During this initial testing period, we're only allowing each account to have a single site. However, this site can be comprised of as many pages as you'd like. We'll soon be offering support for multiple sites, but don't have any specific timeline to share at this point."

So for now, the release date of Google Pages 1.0 is still unknown.

Since Google Page Creator's release, Google has added many "experimental features", such as (but not limited to) clocks, games, IP tracers and many more.

Eigenschaften

Autosave - your work is automatically saved at regular intervals, as in Gmail;
41 web templates to choose from;
3 page formats;
100 Megabytes of free file hosting;
Unknown bandwidth limit;
Web pages nearly conform to W3 Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict standards, but fails due to deprecated HTML 4 code;
GPC Editor gives limited access to the raw HTML to allow HTML and CSS coding;
GPC Editor now also allows javascript, but as announced by Google "because this is such a new feature, though, we're still working out some of the kinks.";
Built-in simple image editor;
Does not offer any server-side processing - PHP, ASP, CGI / Forms not supported;
Ability to spurn the templates and design bespoke HTML pages on one's computer and upload;

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Criticisms

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"500" error message

Apart from server downtime and limitations on signing up caused by the great popularity of this service, the naming structure of the Google Pages domain has been criticised for effectively giving away the page owner's email address and hence putting them at the mercy of spammers. The upside of this is that it battle tests the spam filter of the Gmail, which adapts to spam locally and then globally over time using an unknown system.

Lacking the ability to link to external CSS means in-page CSS has to be utilised, and such style code cannot change the basic structure of the templates. Some critics have claimed that the templates and limited customization will lead to similar problems (such as large numbers of sites with uninteresting, 'identikit' designs) as were experienced by the GeoCities service in the late 1990s. ^[1] An earlier criticism that Google's own Adsense program and similar services are not available in the Page Creator and needed a 'hack' to work^[2] has been addressed by the ability to include javascript in Page Creator.

Blockage in mainland China

Both Google Page Creator (pages.google.com) and its pages hoster (*.googlepages.com) has been blocked since May 25, 2006.

Trivia

Soon after Google launched Google Page Creator, it was swamped with millions of users. This caused them to temporarily block new users from using their new web application due to the server overload.
Soon after the release a mirror server was found at pagetastic.com. For certain sites, the URL http://yourgmailusername.pagetastic.com may be used instead of the default http://yourgmailusername.googlepages.com .
The project's codename was "Trogdor"

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