Google Pages

7 04 2008

So, you came back from a trip, and took a few pictures and would like to share them with some family and friends. You COULD go through the trouble of burning them onto a cd and sending them. You COULD email them, but where is the fun in that? Why not make a website? YES you can now have your own virtual web space to do what you please. With the internet bringing people together, and making and maintaining a website being easier than ever, now is the perfect time.

Google Pages would be the perfect answer for those people don’t want to spend hours creating a website, or for those who haven’t really made one before.

Welcome to your home screen.

From here, as you can see, you have all your pages that you have created and that can be linked from one to another. Every website has a home page. This cannot be deleted. When someone types you sites URL, it will take them to that page, so make that one as flashy and pretty as possible ;)

One the right, you have files that you can upload. You can upload any files you want. You do have a limit of 100MB so keep that in mind.

This would be your site editor. From the home menu, when you click on a page, it will take you to a screen like this. You have all your editing tools on the top. You can insert links, images, videos, PDF files… ANYTHING. Any files you have hosted with Google Pages will be linked to from the links button.

This is the part where Google Pages shines. To make it customizable yet easy to use, changing your sites layout is a breeze with the Change Layout button on the top right. This would be the hardest part if one were to create a site using html coding n such. AND YOU CAN MANUALLY EDIT THE HTML CODING. Now advanced users can completely customize their Google page.

Changing your websites theme is easy too, and they have plenty of them. One will certain to suit you. Another cool thing about this is why make one page? Each Google account has 3 website they can create. One could be your school site (like mine), another can be your family actions website, and the third be some sort of website with adult content. :S HEY, why not?! Google allows it. It simply needs to be disclosed with Google. Don’t worry, your parents wont find out. There are many customizable settings like which parts of the world you would like this site to be mainly viewed, or parental controls, or why don’t you password protect your site so only certain users can view them. The sky is the limit with this great free site builder by Google.

Check them out.  —>  http://pages.google.com/

What will they come up with next?

Check my school site with all my notes and such. This tok me about 5 minutes to learn and create. 3 of the minutes took to upload all my content.

roman.lech11.googlepages.com