Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Google plays peek-a-boo with web page creator

The newest web-based application from Google is a web page creator that was briefly available earlier today. Called Google Page Creator, the new application requires a Google account and allows users with no knowledge of HTML to create web pages via an AJAX-based WYSIWYG editor. The pages will then be stored by Google, accessible at http://googleaccount.googlepages.com. The initial release supports only the creation of individual web pages, but Google plans to support creating and managing entire websites at some point in the future.

Google Pages comes with 100MB of space and an easy-to-use interface for uploading files. It appears to be positioned mostly at those who want to put up simple webpages. It offers a handful of templates to choose from, but also gives people a large degree of control over the look and feel of pages. That sounds promising, but will also probably result in a bunch of web pages that look like the worst of late-1990s GeoCities.
Google plays peek-a-boo with web page creator

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