Recently I was looking for a website-building service. Of course my first choice was to look for google if it provides that service. Now google has stopped “Google Pages” and come up with new thing called as “Google Sites”. I had a tour of this service and I didn’t find it appealing. Let me tell you what it has and what it doesn’t. Google sites is a service for building your website for free. You just have to have a google account i.e. gmail address. With that you log-in to google sites and start building a website. Simplicity is the good feature that google offers like it’s other products, but the themes available are too short to choose from. Moreover page design is fixed. A header, a sidebar, main page content and footer. That’s it: A single page layout. A variety of background colors and text colors are available. A very few inbuilt widgets are available. Moreover you cannot embed external widgets, nor you can embed google gadgets. That is something I hated most. HTML editing is available for text only.
Website address is one worse thing with google sites. You will get website address something like this: :http://sites.google.com/site/yourwebsite. Now this kind of web address is not appealing, where the name you choose comes at last. Now, I didn’t check if yourdomain.com can be used but I guess, not.
To conclude it’s kind of other google services. Simple, can play with texts, but boring looks, limited designs, poor webaddress.
Let me know your views if you have tried it.