racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

A decade back, Geocities was the free website-host of choice, along with the likes of tripod and all other sites I have long since forgotten.

Yahoo! had acquired Geocities in 1999, and was able to closely integrate the service within its own Yahoo! services and accounts.

Now Google has its own webpage creation/hosting service. No, it’s not blogger. It’s called Google Pages.

We’re testing a new product that makes creating your own web pages as easy as creating a document in a word processor. Google Page Creator is a free tool that lets you create web pages right in your browser and publish them to the web with one click. There’s no software to download and no web designer to hire. The pages you create are hosted on Google servers and are available at http://yourgmailusername.googlepages.com for the world to see.

This looks pretty interesting. But I do hope we don’t get any of those ugly websites that the old Geocities site builder used to churn out. It’s 2006, folks! I’ll have none of those tables and frames and frickin’ popups! I want clean, standards-based and usable websites!

Sign-ups are unavaialble as of the moment though, but I’ve queued up with my email address and am hoping to try out the service once available.

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