Website Creator: Make Your Own Site With Google Page Creator

by Tem Balanco

Google Page Creator is a service from Google that allows users to create and publish their own attractive web pages, quickly and easily by using a free, easy to use and browser-based tool. Google Page Creator is very helpful for website creators who are non-technical and not familiar to web site creation, to easily set up their websites in What You See Is What You See rich text editor mode, just like creating a document in Microsoft Word. If you would like more control over your web pages, you can edit the page in HTML mode too.

After you have edited the page, you can publish it to the Internet with one simple click. Every user gets a free 100 MB of web hosting and storage space. Google Page Creator's Page Editor features an easy interface that inserts the user's Google user name as the headline on the home page automatically- It is necessary to have Google Account in order to utilize the tool. Functional buttons across the top of the work page include "Back to Page Manager," "Publish," "Preview," "Save," "Redo," "Undo," "Change Look," and "Change Layout".

Functions for inserting an image, web link, headings, subheading, fonts, paragraphs are made with controls located on the left side. These controls are also for modifying the web page html. A great feature with the Google Page Creator is that it has an auto-save feature so accidental losses are rare.

You can also browse all your web pages and uploaded stuffs with Page Manager. You can create as many pages as you like, and upload as many files as you like, as long as it's within space limit. If you upload image, a thumbnail will be automatically created too. Page Layout can be changed by using Change Layout button, which will show you available layout. For each layout, the dashed rectangles represent the parts of the page that you can edit as a website creator.

The Change Look button will enable you to change the way the page looks. The link will show you to the various ways to customize the look of the page. As of now, no ads are on user pages. Even though the service is still in Google labs, the web pages do save and are published correctly. Sometimes Google Website Creator also mimics features retrieved from other sites.

Google Page Creator has one feature that is a negative. If you publish your web pages with Google Page Editor some of your HTML material is deleted. HTML editor does not fix this problem, some of your material will be removed even with using this editor.

By using Google Page website creator, you will be able to create and publish your own attractive web pages. Not only is it quick and easy, but it's also a free browser based tool. You must have a Google account to use the page editor. With rich text editor mode, what you see is exactly what you get, just like creating a Microsoft Word document. Along with all of the these options, you'll also be able to edit the page in HTML mode as well. A single click can publish your page when you are done editing it. Each account comes with 100MB of free web space and storage.

Published February 26th, 2008

Filed in Web Design