RSSGoogle Testing Web 'Page Creator' Beta
By Nate Mook | Published February 23, 2006, 11:32 AM
As Microsoft waves goodbye to FrontPage in Office 2007, Google seems to be picking up the slack and is beta testing a new Web-based HTML editor dubbed "Page Creator." Google's service utilizes AJAX to give it the feel of a desktop application, but at the moment the tool's functionality remains limited.
Google Page Creator currently enables Google Account holders to create single pages, with up to 100MB of storage. The company provides a free URL at http://username.googlepages.com to access the pages a user creates. Google says Page Creator does not currently support making full "sites" of content.
Creating a page using the service requires just a few mouse clicks, and although it's still an early beta release, industry analysts and pundits say it already shows promise.
"From the Page Manager, click on the title of the page you want to edit. This will take you to the Page Editor. Once you've clicked into your page, just start typing in the text boxes," explains Google. "On the left side of the page are tools to: change the size and style of your text, create links, and insert images."
Different layouts can be selected through a sample gallery, along with "page looks" that provide color and style options. Images can also be uploaded and inserted into pages.
"What Google does get right is overall approach, which replaces Geek Speak for everyday language. It's a refreshing way and one I can't enough encourage Microsoft to take with Office 2007 and Windows Vista," commented Jupiter Research senior analyst Joe Wilcox.
Google isn't saying how it plans to deploy Page Creator, and whether the service will be aimed at the general Web public or simply its own Blogger users. But it's a sign of the growing trend to move applications onto the Web, from e-mail to instant messaging to HTML editing.
"I do believe that Web-based products like Google Pages can reach the good enough threshold, so that bells-and-whistle products like FrontPage wouldn't be necessary for most people," added Wilcox. "Microsoft clearly recognizes this, by the decision to put down the product."
Google is retarded. I can't believe people actually like there products and services....all of them are horrible.
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|Sing up for a free email account on Yahoo. They
have great spam control and more. (details on their site)
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|Interesting... Would like to see the progression of this service, and see what it becomes...
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|This service is clearly not for dial-up users, slow-loading here.
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|It got slashdotted soon after launch.
Damn slashdot...
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|what's dial-up? ;)
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|Nice- but people have moved on from webpage creation to blogging.
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|Well, if it uses your username in the URL or at a standard location on the page or in the code, then it'd be quite simple for a bot to grab it.
Far as I can tell, it uses the username in the URL...like just about every ISP in the world does.
Big shocker there...
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|I gotta agree with SM here...
YAAP. (Yet Another Ajax Page)
What *is* interesting about this isthat it comes just after the patent for Online Rich Media (http://www.betanews.com/..._Controversy/1140716575)
Google telling Balthasar, "Up yours!"?
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|coincidental.
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|Never brought it up or intended to imply otherwise, but thanks.
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|Actually....... his/her/its acronymic response "DUMB" stands for: Doh,,,, Uhh... Mama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bweakfast!!!!!!!
L33t translation:
Tried to figure it out, was quickly overwhelmed & thus immediately submitted a request for assistance ticket-- which did not turn out efficacious...the growing frustration only calmed by a soothing titee.
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|You've been using that Hungarian-English dictionary again, haven't you?
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|Yeah!! The Kayser Soce edition......
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|Not a Monty Python fan, I take it?
Let me try and explain it to you, translated from Hungarian:
My Hovercraft is full of eels.
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|Dumb
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|hi i tested it pretty early when it was still working fine. what i didnt like is that you can just upload pictures! i was hoping i could ad 1 or 2 files to the page but it didnt seem possible!
does anyone of you know if you can somehow do that? i mean upload files and so on
thx
pseudo
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|It's in beta, meaning very limited features. In fact, it was just released a few hours ago. Give it time, it'll become full functioned soon enough.... full functioned, and BEYOND!
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|Beta is closed due to "high demand" but you can sign up for future consideration.
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|trying it out right now .... not bad .... not bad at all ...
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|Very great. I've just created my first homepage with it... at first I wasn't able to find the html editor, but in the end I've found it.
But I've got a problem with it: I've tried to insert the shoutbox (from www.shoutbox.de) but he doesn't insert it into the website. It is in the preview but not after I've published it :-(
But all in all a very great service from google
Bernhard
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