Google Page Creator has a new feature: you can create up to five sites using a single account.
First, enable "experimental features" in Site Settings. Then go to the page manager and click on "Create a site with a different address", choose an address and that's it. As the address has the format *.googlepages.com, you can't choose the name of an existing Gmail account.
This is a good way to overcome the limitation of having only 100 MB space and only 100 files, without creating a new account.
The answer to the question: "
How do I create a new site?"
from help has changed from:
"During this initial testing period, we're only allowing each account to have a single site. However, this site can be comprised of up to 100 pages. We'll soon be offering support for multiple sites, but don't have any specific timeline to share at this point."
to
"Select the
Create a site with a different address link that appears near the top of the Page Manager."
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Their "check availability" feature's a little buggy. Sometimes it says an address is available when it's not.
Whilst they disallow any names that are either already Gmail username or Picasa Web Albums nicknames, they do seem to be allowing addresses with "Google" in them, which you can't do in Gmail.
It's also a little poor that you can't delete or change the address of a site once you've created it.
said on September 21, 2006 3:26 AM PDT:
YES! This is awesome!
Although i'm still going to keep my second one with the other account anyway because i have some "other" stuff on there...
Sucks about what Tony mentioned though.
They will probably let you do some further things later on, lets suggest it to them!
I created a little page last night for some friends.
Just a quick 10 minute job to simplify... oh i dunno, less than a minutes worth of typing code... i'm such a nice friend
host said on September 21, 2006 5:29 AM PDT:
google page creator is still very limited on features ... yes it is good for simple sites like personal web sites but if you like to create some thing good and big, it is not good enuf
多瑙河之野鸭 said on September 21, 2006 8:05 AM PDT:
Yes, I want to know how to delete the unnecessary sites which I just created.
Well, you can't delete sites, at least for the moment.
said on September 21, 2006 10:35 AM PDT:
While you can't delete a site, you can delete all of the pages in the site.
All, except for the homepage.
said on September 22, 2006 9:13 AM PDT:
Notice how in the example screenshots they use eve.googlepages.com and frogs.googlepages.com. Too bad there is a minimum of 6 characters in anything we want to make and we can't be cool like eve and her frogs.
Those 12,356,630 subdomains are for VIPs. For example, Google employees have Gmail addresses like matt@gmail.com or a@gmail.com.
said on September 23, 2006 6:38 AM PDT:
Thanks for the info ... I was waiting for such a feature for so long ...
hey, it doesn't work for me. I don't see such a link!
DonauYa said on October 20, 2006 2:24 PM PDT:
I cannot see that link today. Maybe google has cancelled this function?
said on November 19, 2006 6:49 PM PDT:
It works for me; however, I haven't been able to find any sort of available address with "google" anywhere in it. Has anyone else had better luck?
said on December 16, 2006 6:01 AM PDT:
Can you also do autoforwarding? I created a site with my name but I also want the same site with a different name. Ho do I do this?
Hawk
No, you can't do something so advanced at the server level. But you could create blank pages that have the same name like in the first site, and a simple JavaScript or Meta redirection.
said on April 29, 2007 12:30 AM PDT:
As i have explored it also that one can not delete googlepages site.
Is it possible to rename googlepages site? e.g
myfrogs.googlepages.com to yourfrogs.googlepages.com
No, you can't rename a site, but you can create a new one and duplicate the content. To make all the pages of a site unavailable, go to site settings and check "hide this site".
Coba said on June 23, 2007 10:23 PM PDT:
Now we can't delete site wrongly crated and waiting for googlepages to add this future. Just hope and waiting.
said on July 25, 2007 6:51 AM PDT:
this is too complicated iwish i had an easiesr rescource than that
evereett said on July 25, 2007 6:55 AM PDT:
this is hopeless ill never be able to create a site i hope that ill find something less complicated. ill just have to go to ask jeeves.com for an answer.
