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Google Page Creator will soon be kicked out of Google labs as Google sites will replace Page Creator. Yesterday, Google officially closed the new sign-ups for Google Page Creator. Google Sites is a product from Google having extended features than Gogle Page Creator.
Tough a person can’t sign up now for Page Creator, the existing users need not to worry as current users’ data( web pages, images) will be automatically shifted from Page Creator to Google Sites later in 2008. More information about the transition will be posted as transition time gets closer.
Main cause for Google Page Creator being a flop show is its limited features availability. Has it been something like Blogspot.com, Google has not been forced to think about the transition from Google Page Creator to Google Sites.
Source :Google
I don’t like this at all. Now I have to tell about my new URLs in all the website and forum profiles I’m using (unfortunately I was expecting GPC to graduate from Google Labs). I also need to tell search engines my new URLs in case I want to move from Google Page Creator to some other site than Google Sites (for example Yahoo! GeoCities allows uploading HTML files). I’m used to creating geeky old school pages (optimized for any web browser and any operating system and making the size of the documents as small as possible still including all the important information on the pages) with little unnecessary content that is created by Web 2.0 technology used by Google Page Creator Page Manager and Google Sites.
With Google Page Creator you could upload HTML files and that’s why with GPC it was much easier to make your pages look exactly the way you wanted with uploaded HTML files and CSS files (or CSS in HTML). With Google Sites you can’t upload HTML files or use scripting either.
When I tried moving my Google Page Creator pages to Google Sites, I had to copy and paste the HTML source from the HTML files and change and tweak the HTML and it still looks disgusting. Also, my week old Google Sites website got banned, because its spam filter sucks so I had to contact the Google Sites team to get my Google Sites website back. Now my pages are back to Google Page Creator and Iโm not sure what I should do. Google Sites is definitely Beta and should be told on every page on that service.