Google Page creator

Lucky you, gmail account owners, you can now create your website without knowing what html, css, layers or div tags mean. Google Page Creator is a simple and neat online WYSISWYG. Not only Google helps you to build your site but it is also hosting it for free: 100 meg of space, no advertisement whatsoever. Exactly like like the blogger website actually. What would be the difference between blogger.com and googlepages.com knowing that you could organise your blog like a website and vice versa? Google page interface allows you to upload your own design. This could be heaven for many webdesigner hobbyist or pro, and small companies wanting their own websites. After all, who needs a .com or .net? It has a cost to keep a domain name and it is now free with Google:
http://yourgmailaccountname.googlepages.com, 100 meg of space and no traffic limits either (not yet).

This is of course a bad news for the small to medium web hosting companies. To attract customers, some of them have free contracts with forced banner ads (ie:bravehost.com), or no ads but a 200ko data limit per page (ie: atspace.com). You will get none of these limits or embarassement like having a silly "flirt for free" banner on your serious website with Google. The only real limitation with Google is that it only supports html/javascript . No MySQL databases, Perl & PHP, SSL, SSH & SSI, POP3/IMAP and SMTP with Google. It remains a good opportunity for many as not all business/people need these features in their website.

What else to say about this new google page creator? First, how to get it? Just type "google page creator" on the Google search engine, or if you are lazy, simply click here.

Here is also the website where was (*) explained how to upload your files using the Google page creator: http://westoncampbell.googlepages.com/googlehosting

Never mind, here is an inside view of how the google page creator looks like:

Second: With all the debate going on on the .com domain registration, it would be good idea to create your gmail account at the name of your company/chosen domain because your website will keep the name of your gmail account.

* This page does not exist anymore unfortunately...But you may visit: http://westoncampbell.googlepages.com/

Long live the blog (and hopefully mine too)

Hello Blog...and Bloggers.

Sunday, the 26th of february 2006 (after the closure of the winter Olympic game precisly), it was about the time to have a blog. It seems to me that everybody got one now. Fashion or need? "In the early 21st century, blogging has quickly emerged as a popular and important means of communication, affecting public opinion and mass media around the world." I do not have this pretention but I have now become a part of this mass phenomena.

Blog: What a strange name... "The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log" .
Not to be confused with Blob (The blob, movie,1988), this kind of extra terrestrial shapeless fast moving gelee coming from outerspace, swallowing all human being and digesting them completely.
I am now a blogger too. Is blogger a profession too? Blog are getting so much read nowadays that journalists start to worry a bit, and create their own blogs.
When was the first blog ever created? In my honest opinion, I believe the Blog was born in Star Trek - Actually, there are a lot of stuffs we daily use nowadays which have been inspired from the old star trek series - Do you remember the famous "Kirk's captain log" at the beginning of each episode? It was more than a simple diary because we, TV audience, could listen to it. It was the closest thing to the blog as I know it now. If you find something similar anterior to Star Trek, let me know.

How did we evolve to obtain the blog? I believe this is the right order: Mirc chatrooms -> forum -> web ring -> blog. This last has kept the characteristic of all its predecessor.
If the first blog on the net has been spotted in 1995 only, the word "Blog" itself appeared in 1999 and from there it totally boomed.
The next evolution of the blog is the "Vlog", the video-log, which is allowed by 2 technical improvments: digital video camera and faster connection and also the explosion of number of the space on the servers around the world.
If like me, you have decided to create your blog, be sure to take the time to make it well because it will be readen and the blog mania has long years to live .

ps: all the sentences in italic are taken from the wikipedia