Google Page Creator
By Yazan MalakhaIt looks as though rumors about Google launching an AJAX based WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) are true. The Google Page Creator lets you throw up a quick set of pages without much of a hassle. The site offers a bunch of templates and is designed for those who want to create 5-10 static pages on the go, nothing inovative there. Google will probably display ads based on the content you’re creating.
On the other hand Google Hosting seems to be on the horizon. They’re already offering Gmail hosting if you recall. In that case this page will be also available on techhash.goog
Screenshot of templates obtained via Matt Cutt’s Page
The story is also reported on Jad Madi’s Thoughts and Isam Bayazdi
February 24th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Yes, its a shame it isn’t available at the moment during to high demand.
February 24th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
Bakka, I don’t think they’ve introduced anything new with page creator. We’ve seen thousands of inpage html editors, and there templates look like blogger which aren’t the best templates I’ve seen.
February 25th, 2006 at 1:02 am
I agree that google must be planning for something more creative!
February 25th, 2006 at 2:01 am
Khawaja, while many including myself think Google is brining nothing to the table. Some disagree, Scobles for instance thinks Google should be applauded for creating the tool.
“Office Live team tells me that 45% of small businesses don’t have a Web site at all.”
February 25th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Free hosting services are not new, Online page builders are not new, and I dont think that making them use AJAX is really something worth applauding.
The only thing thats new here is that Google is doing it, and we should stop tryign to find reasons to cheer when Google does something which has been done before. they’ve done alot of things worth applauding, but not this.
I look at this as simply a result of the fact that they had to offer free hosting in order to compete with MS Live. And they thought, Hmm… let’s do it in AJAX so that we can say we did something new.
What would be really new is having a web based IDE for all web development technologies including .Net, and if it happens to use AJAX, then that would be cool.
And for the record: I love Google
February 25th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Laith,
Google Labs products, including Pages are a bunch underwhelming gimmicks designed to keep people talking about Google. And it’s working.
Now google pages shouldn’t be in the same line as Live. Live is all about collaboration, not just web presence. Not to mention that live offers free domains, emails etc even on the free version; while google offers username.googlepages.com.
But I must admit what Google has done in terms of their simple interface, and client side scripts is quite impressive. But like all other Google Labs products it will soon be forgotten.
What happened to Google Suggest? It’s been in the lab since December 2004, why isn’t it the standard version yet?