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Google Sites to Replace Google Page Creator
Google page creator, a part of Google Labs, is one of the best free website creation service. But unfortunately it will no longer accept sign-ups, even though existing users will be able to use this like ever before – reported by Labnol
A big difference between Google Page Creator and Google Sites is that the former lets you upload HTML pages that are created externally – this is something you will miss when the transition from Google Pages to Google Sites completes.
However, all your files, images and web pages stored in Google Pages will get shifted to Google Sites later this year. None the less, it’s safe to assume Google Sites will be a more powerful tool than Google Pages is currently.
This is another promising move by the Big G
Without external page support sounds like how tripod used to do it
I don’t like this at all. Now I have to tell about my new URLs in all the website and forum profiles I’m using (unfortunately I was expecting GPC to graduate from Google Labs). I also need to tell search engines my new URLs in case I want to move from Google Page Creator to some other site than Google Sites (for example Yahoo! GeoCities allows uploading HTML files). I’m used to creating geeky old school pages (optimized for any web browser and any operating system and making the size of the documents as small as possible still including all the important information on the pages) with little unnecessary content that is created by Web 2.0 technology used by Google Page Creator Page Manager and Google Sites.
With Google Page Creator you could upload HTML files and that’s why with GPC it was much easier to make your pages look exactly the way you wanted with uploaded HTML files and CSS files (or CSS in HTML). With Google Sites you can’t upload HTML files or use scripting either.
When I tried moving my Google Page Creator pages to Google Sites, I had to copy and paste the HTML source from the HTML files and change and tweak the HTML and it still looks disgusting. Also, my week old Google Sites website got banned, because its spam filter sucks so I had to contact the Google Sites team to get my Google Sites website back. Now my pages are back to Google Page Creator and I’m not sure what I should do. Google Sites is definitely Beta and should be told on every page on that service.