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Re: Google Sites Opens Up For Everyone

Traffic Guy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:57:30 -0000

Let's see where Google Sites goes, who knows, it will probably improve some day. Everybody has a website or a myspace online these days, but not every business knows how to market online or optimize for Google. Visit SiteFactor.com for more.

Re: Google Sites Opens Up For Everyone

SuperMan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:31:16 -0000

great news

Re: Google Sites Opens Up For Everyone

Saqib Ali — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:52:13 -0000

Yup. Google Sites is really cool. You can even develop a Issue Tracking Database in it. See:
http://sites.google.com/sit...
I plan to use this next semester

Couple of limitations in Google Sites:
1) Attachments are limited to 10 MB. That way too low by current standards. Some of the PPT I create are larger then that. But then I could upload the PPT to Google Docs......
2) No support for Flash/Shockwave. That is just silly.

Re: Google Sites Opens Up For Everyone

Rik Ravado — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:53:06 -0000

Using it for informal sharing and collaboration between a group of specialists inside and outside my company. Great that anyone can collaborate and short-circuits corporate IT.

My problem is access rights. Only Owner, Collaborator or Visitor (read only). I don't want all my collaborators to be able to reorganise the site. I need at least a 4th group who can post a comment but nothing more.

This is a major weakness, I think. Even for family use, grandma could accidently delete the family photos. Who wants a forum where anyone can delete threads or edit other people's posts?

Re: Google Sites Opens Up For Everyone

The Master — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:06:19 -0000

The part about not being able to use a good domain name is no biggie, just go to shorturl dot com or similar service for a good redirect.

The problem is, there is no way to FTP, so you are forced to use the lame tools they provide which look like everything else they put out. Google should sub out some of their creative to Adobe and capitalize even more.

Re: Google Sites Opens Up For Everyone

Josh — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:21:41 -0000

Never liked Basecamp. I use Wrike. Google sites look ok to me, might be useful for some stuff.

Re: Google Sites Opens Up For Everyone

youporn — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:33:15 -0000

this is how big brands like google and apple do, and the main idea in cms is simplicity ... not for geek boys like me
excuse me ... I must login as a root now

Re: Google Sites Opens Up For Everyone

Ben — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:21:45 -0000

I've been using Google APS for 6 months now at my work place, and everyone loves them!

I've checked out this Google Sites builder though, and was turned off by it's extreme oversimplification. Not for me.

Re: Google Sites Opens Up For Everyone

Alberto Cespedes — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:28:24 -0000

You can't have a simple url like www.domain.com. Google Sites forces you to have a crazy url like the following - http://sites.google.com/a/d..., which is a pretty big drawback.

Re: Google Sites Opens Up For Everyone

gaetano marano - NewSpaceAgenc — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:54:36 -0000

the main problem with this kind of free website hosting is that they never reveal the max (guaranteed) monthly bandwidth

Re: Google Sites Opens Up For Everyone

Adriana — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:17:40 -0000

This simplified web page making is kinda cool actually... I'd like a review on this later. I have a blog on blogger and it'd be nice to be able to have other pages with no html required.