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."
Related:
Add gadgets to Google Pages
Free website monitoring
Their "check availability" feature's a little buggy. Sometimes it says an address is available when it's not.
ReplyDeleteWhilst 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.
YES! This is awesome!
ReplyDeleteAlthough 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
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
ReplyDeleteYes, I want to know how to delete the unnecessary sites which I just created.
ReplyDeleteWell, you can't delete sites, at least for the moment.
ReplyDeleteWhile you can't delete a site, you can delete all of the pages in the site.
ReplyDeleteAll, except for the homepage.
ReplyDeleteNotice 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.
ReplyDeleteThose 12,356,630 subdomains are for VIPs. For example, Google employees have Gmail addresses like matt@gmail.com or a@gmail.com.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info ... I was waiting for such a feature for so long ...
ReplyDeletehey, it doesn't work for me. I don't see such a link!
ReplyDeleteI cannot see that link today. Maybe google has cancelled this function?
ReplyDeleteIt 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?
ReplyDeleteCan 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?
ReplyDeleteHawk
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.
ReplyDeleteAs i have explored it also that one can not delete googlepages site.
ReplyDeleteIs 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".
ReplyDeleteNow we can't delete site wrongly crated and waiting for googlepages to add this future. Just hope and waiting.
ReplyDeletethis is too complicated iwish i had an easiesr rescource than that
ReplyDeletethis 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.
ReplyDelete