Google Page Creator

Here's some of my thoughts and impressions regarding the Google Page Creator as a part of Google Apps.

It's annoying and time consuming to create a multi page design. Sure you can create a "template file" and duplicate that page to create all the rest of the pages, but anytime you want to change your navigation you must edit every page individually. I'm considering trying to use a server side include to see if that helps, that'll be in the coming days.

Second annoying thing, when you use the above description to create your site, the files are saved as home, home2, home3, etc. Not exactly what I'm looking for, and definitely not search engine optimized. So my site consists of home1 through home8 as the file names/urls.

Seems like it uses the site title as the page's title tag, which means your not able to maintain a site wide title. So in the upper-left corner of my site, I had to modify the site title to include the page title in order to save and link the pages correctly.

All in all, Google Page Creator was easy to use, but professional web people will realize the limitations quickly. As you can tell from my opening impressions, I'm already looking for ways to hack the pages to get a consistent navigation without having to edit every page. I'm also looking for a way to maintain a site title throughout and have readable context specific file/url names.