Google Pages

Google hosts free web pages for those with a gmail account. All editing etc is done online.

Alert: The URL for your google page would be gmailusername.googlepages.com which is a giveaway of your email address. This is the downside. The upside is that you can automatically use a familiar name as the URL for your pages.

I have not used my major gmail address for this trial of Google Pages - instead I have used a minor address and recommend you do the same if you have a much-used gmail address.

See what a google page might look like

Features:

-A large number of templates to change the look of the site.

-Layout: Choices between Header plus 1 2 or 3 columns

-Basic formatting tools (bold, italic, bullets, text colour, font, size, alignment)

-Headings, subheadings, minor headings and normal.

-A Google Pages site can have up to 100 pages and 100 Megabytes of uploaded photos or documents.

-A Google Pages site can be published (made public) or unpublished (private ie not on web)at will. So, a site can be put up and taken down whenever preferred.

-Some html can be controlled by the user - not the whole page but only selected areas.

Google Pages help

To access Google Pages This link gives an opportunity to login as a gmail user to start using Google Pages, or lists the user's Google Pages details if the user is 'active' on that computer.

Some experiences:

1. When changes are published there may be a delay before the changes can be viewed on the internet. To force a refresh, hold down the shift key as you press the refresh icon on the browser. (Shift - Refresh/reload forces a refresh of the browser cache, but may not immediately refresh the ISP cache).

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