Filed under: Design, Internet, Web services, Google
Google is slowly killing Page Creator, replacing it with Sites
Google Sites is a web site/wiki creator that Google launched a year after purchasing Jotspot. Sites allows you to create editable pages, embed videos, calendars, and documents. Later this year, Google will transition all web sites made with the Google Page Creator over to Google Sites.
Google Page Creator was never as easy to use as it should have been and I honestly don't know too many people who used it to build web pages. So I don't expect many people to cry over its loss. But there is at least one potential problem. If anyone's ever posted a link to your files at yourname.googlepages.com, that link could break later this year, because Google Sits uses a different URL structure. Hopefully Google will offer existing users the chance to transition to the new service while keeping their existing URLs.
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shedders said 2:14PM on 8-03-2008
I'm dying to use Google sites for our company support site, sharing documents etc with our external staff, but am waiting for them to add some kind of backup facility before we take the plunge. I read somewhere that this was an oversight, but it seems such a major function to overlook.
To my mind, any application that allows one or many users to delete everything really needs to come with a backup button.
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northfork said 6:17PM on 8-03-2008
too bad.. tried both and i think google pages is better, it is much more dynamic.
hope they will move some of the editing features from google pages into google sites
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Oneiroi said 7:34PM on 8-03-2008
Yeah, page creator isn't very popular. I used it a couple of times and it seemed nice enough.
The thing is, I think Google has a lot to do whether or not their programs or sites take off. If they don't link to it, don't advertise about it, it just dies off in the "More Google Products" section
http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
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Ryan said 7:36PM on 8-03-2008
I use both GPC and GS and am using nearly 100mb on each service - what's going to happen when they try to merge it since it will be well over the current 100mb limit on Google Sites???
Also what will happen to the URLs - two of my GPC sites have quite a large number of other links pointing to them?
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DallasM said 8:31AM on 8-04-2008
I like Google Sites just fine, and would like to take a number of groups I work with on it. But, it lacks 3 very basic features that are deal breakers for me.
1. RSS or E-Mail updates for non-members
2. There is to much of a void between Viewers and Collaborators
3. Poor integration with Google Calendar (can only view one calendar per calendar app)
Like I said, these are deal breakers for me until Google closes the holes. Which shouldn't be long, they are fairly simple fixes. SO GET ON IT GOOGLE!
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Tomi Häsä said 7:27AM on 8-16-2008
With Google Page Creator you could upload HTML files and it was much easier to make your pages look exactly the way you wanted using uploaded HTML files and CSS files (or CSS in HTML). With Google Sites you can't use uploaded HTML files with CSS and you can't use scripting either.