Google are getting into the website hosting business and they give you a 100 MB of server space to get started! Will there be advertising on the hosted sites — perhaps so — but not yet anyway.
Google Page Creator is how you create a Google-hosted website. You may not be able to sign up right now to set up your own hosted pages because of high demand for the new service, but I was able to play around with the site the other day and you can visit the results of that artful playing live on the web right now right here:
http://dboles.googlepages.com
Here is what the online editor looks like:
You can pick your layout:
You
can choose from a wide variety of colors and design. I was only able to
grab about half the available styles for this screenshot:
Creating new pages is simple and you can also edit in raw HTML if you prefer that method to a graphical interface:
This
is the Page Manager where you can add and delete pages and get a good
overview of where you are with your site management. Adding your
“stuff” via upload is simple and quick:
The following fonts and sizes are included in a simple drop-down menu:
Google Page Creator is an easy-to-use website hosting and design interface and it is aimed at the entry-level web designer.
You can’t beat price: Free is alright with me!