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No Google Pages for you!
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Feb 24th 2006 at 8:40AM
Jason's post about the Google web pages tool looked so good I
decided to try it. Unfortunately, due to the way of the world, I was unable to do so until around 10 PM Eastern time...
By which time Google Pages was closed for business. Instead of a cute, new tool I
got this:"Thank you for your interest in Google Page Creator! Google Page Creator has experienced extremely strong demand, and, as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. In the meantime, please submit your email address and we will notify you as soon as we are ready to add new accounts. Thank you for your patience."
Unfortunately, I'm not a patient person. I'm the guy who just unplugs his machine when it won't shut down fast enough (yes, I know that is a terrible thing to do). I wanted to recommend this to some very nice people I recently met who wanted to start a website, but had no training whatsoever. This would have been a great sandbox for them. Instead, it's closed. Luckily there are alternatives. I put my email in the box, just to see when it does come back up. So instead of my goofy Google Page, I give you Nik Cubrilovic's page.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Nathan Weinberg said 10:05AM on 2-24-2006
Pages was closed at least eleven hours earlier than that.
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bboyfeifei said 10:38AM on 2-24-2006
Besides your suggested alternative opencms.org, here is another one drupal.org (i think - am i correct?)...
actually i still dun quite understand about the content management thingy, i know what the program does, but to have the website on the WWW, do we need to get a webspace ourself for the hosting??? or does drupal or opencms also offers that? for free? anyone can help me out?
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Peter said 1:19PM on 2-24-2006
It's working fine for me this morning. I hadn't signed up/logged in previously.
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tpp said 5:04PM on 2-24-2006
What's with Google these days? A number of their services limit the number of sign-ups. I wonder where they'd be, if the search page did the same.
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If it's got an engine. . . said 3:53PM on 2-26-2006
I added my email address the first day also. Just for kicks, I tried again and it works for me. No email to let me know.
dorri732.googlepages.com
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 8:42PM on 4-03-2006
Success! After nearly 2 months, I finally received an email saying I was allowed entry into the coveted halls of Google Pages. I feel so warm and fuzzy inside.
Oh, I just threw up in mouth. Just a little.
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