Google Slowly Closing Page Creator
August 5, 2008
"As Digital Inspiration noticed, Google on their Page Creator About page
says:"
"We are no longer accepting new sign-ups for Page Creator because we have
shifted our focus to developing Google Sites, which offers many of the
capabilities of Page Creator along with new features like site-level
navigation, site-level headers, control over who can see and edit your site,
and rich embeddings like calendars, videos, and Google docs."
"Google Page Creator is or was Google's general web page creation program
(Google also offers Knol to create knowledge articles, and Blogger to start
a blog; other tools of theirs, like Google Documents, can output a webpage
too). In a closed help group thread on the subject, Google states:"
"Page Creator has always been a Google Labs project (Labs is our "technology
playground" where we let users test-drive experimental products and give us
feedback so we can innovate more quickly). Since launching Page Creator in
Labs, we've learned a lot and have incorporated those lessons into Google
Sites. We think the Labs program, which allows users to try new things
before they're fully baked, lets us innovate faster and ultimately create
the best possible products."
"User André Banen, who's very helpful in the Google help groups, tells me,
"Personally I'm not very happy with this decision. Google Page Creator
offered me the possibility to enter JavaScript code into web pages and to
use iframes to embed content, something that Google Sites currently [won't]
allow.""
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-08-05-n83.html

Announcement
August 4, 2008
"We are no longer accepting new sign-ups for Page Creator because we have
shifted our focus to developing Google Sites. Google Sites offers many of
the capabilities of Page Creator along with new features like site-level
navigation, site-level headers, control over who can see and edit your site,
and rich embeddings like calendars, videos, and Google docs. Simply put, we
think that Google Sites offers a better experience for creating web pages
and websites. Consequently, we will be shutting down Page Creator later this
year."
"If you are currently a Page Creator user, you can continue to use Page
Creator and your pages will automatically be transitioned to Google Sites
later this year. We are committed to making this transition as smooth and
easy as possible, and we will post more details as we get closer to the
transition time. You can also manually move your web pages from Page Creator
to Google Sites or other service providers at any time."
"Page Creator has always been a Google Labs project (Labs is our "technology
playground" where we let users test-drive experimental products and give us
feedback so we can innovate more quickly). Since launching Page Creator in
Labs, we've learned a lot and have incorporated those lessons into Google
Sites. We think the Labs program, which allows users to try new things
before they're fully baked, lets us innovate faster and ultimately create
the best possible products."
http://groups.google.com/group/GPC-How-to/msg/1260f67111144902

About Google Page Creator
"We are no longer accepting new sign-ups for Page Creator because we have
shifted our focus to developing Google Sites, which offers many of the
capabilities of Page Creator along with new features like site-level
navigation, site-level headers, control over who can see and edit your site,
and rich embeddings like calendars, videos, and Google docs."
"If you are currently a Page Creator user, you can continue to use Page
Creator and your pages will automatically be transitioned to Google Sites
later this year. We are committed to making this transition as smooth and
easy as possible, and we will post more details as we get closer to the
transition time. You can also manually move your web pages from Page Creator
to Google Sites or other service providers at any time."
http://pages.google.com/-/about.html