Google Pages, Part 1

Need to publish your soccer league's schedule or your church bulletin online, but don't have a Web site? Google offers the free Google Page Creator to the public to create a free Web site. According to Google, "Google Page Creator is a free tool that lets you create web pages right in your browser and publish them to the web with one click." The Web sites created by the Google Page Creator will be hosted on Google's very own servers, so one doesn't need to worry about finding a Web host to host these marvelous creations. Google reports that they have no current plans to charge for the Google Page Creator, so don't worry that you'll be charged next week on your credit card if Google stops the free ride.

As free Web sites go, one is usually better off finding a cheap Web host, because the free ones tend to be unreliable, unresponsive to freeloading customers, and go out of business at the drop of a hat. But I suspect Google is going to be around for awhile, so one doesn't have to worry about one's Web site going offline with no customer service to contact because they're busy looking for new jobs.

Google doesn't skimp on the disk space for each Google Pages Web site. One is allowed up to 100 MB to upload images and other files, which includes the HTML Web pages created with the Google Page Creator.

If the idea of building a free Web site for your business with Google Pages sounds good, it would be better to head to another Web host so that your business will look professional to the potential customers that find your business via the Internet. However, if one just needs to post something on the Web for school or another activity, Google Pages just might do the trick.

I'll be doing some investigations on Google Pages, so expect some follow up blog posts.