About Google Page Creator
If you have a Google Mail account (GMail username) then you may be able to quickly have a Google Website; it's like back in the 1990s when GeoCities was the hottest thing.
Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.
- No technical knowledge required;
- Build high-quality web pages without having to learn HTML or use complex software;
- what you see is what you'll get;
- Edit your pages right in your browser, seeing exactly how your finished product will look every step along the way;
- Don't worry about hosting - your web pages will live on your own site at http://yourgmailusername.googlepages.com
Simply Brilliant - But Not Perfect
Google Page Creator allows a web page to be created in minutes, and a whole site like this one to be done and dusted in less than an hour (if you have the content ready).
But GPC isn't the perfect web design environment.
Google have worked hard to ensure that GPC and the pages created within it work well in common browsers, like Internet Explorer and Firefox, but web pages still don't validate perfectly against the W3 web standards, even though GPC uses fantastic CSS and good XHTML
What You Get
GPC offers a no-brain way of getting published, and the completed pages look good too, without any effort on the part of the webmaster.
Just as Apple offer easy to use templates and publishing web applications, GPC gives the webmaster 41Design Templates and 4 Layout structures to choose from.
Pages can be flipped in and out of Templates with no fuss whatsoever.
The Templates are plain and inoffensive, and there will be the danger of creating websites that look just like everyone elses; like in the 1990s when everyone used the Themes that came with Microsoft Frontpage... you can spot a Frontpage Theme a mile off, and Googles Templates are obvious too, but they're nice all the same.
