Goodbye Google Pages… Hello Google Sites!
Google Pages' Successor
Of all the seemingly useless technology name changes in the world (Microsoft Bing anyone?), I bring you one of the more recent ones to hit my Gmail inbox.
Google Sites looks cool… but so did Google Pages (Actually, the themes on Google Sites aren’t as nice as the ones on Pages). There’s really no huge difference. It seems it Sites uses a structured wiki system where there are three different user types: Owners, Collaborators, and Viewers. You can make a Google Site viewable by anyone, or only by a select group of Googlers. I made a test page and people can add attachments and comments, which is a nifty feature. I suppose this would be good for some small businesses if it didn’t look much more professional to have a real website under your own domain.
Most things still work the same way. You still get 100MB of space for *almost* any files that you wish to upload. To my dismay, you cannot upload certain file types to Google Sites whereas Google Pages had no restrictions. The file types I’ve found that are disallowed are HTM, HTML, and JS. So I guess they don’t want you to be able to make pages on your own and upload them, bypassing their page editor and the annoying theme and layout that must be used on all the pages created with it. I suppose since you still can edit the HTML, you could easily change the entire layout though, but this makes it not as easy.
I’m a bit disappointed in this switch, mostly because of the file restrictions, but I guess Google Sites is being more directed towards collaborative projects. Just try it out, if nothing else at all, it’s a little bit of fun for at least a half hour, and a good way to host some small files with no download limitations.
It’s worth checking out if you are interested in a free site. Google Sites
In: Google · Tagged with: files, free, Google, hosting, Internet, web
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