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Al Wells - 23 Jul 2006 01:50 GMT

http://pages.google.com

I hate to even think of what Grummy's going to do with this.

I created this in about 10 minutes
http://al.wells.googlepages.com/home

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Grumman-581 - 23 Jul 2006 04:46 GMT

> I hate to even think of what Grummy's going to do with this.

1. Find out if there is a limit on the total size of the files that
you can upload.
2. Attempt to override their web editor and upload my own HTML files
there.

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Grumman-581 - 23 Jul 2006 04:58 GMT

> 1. Find out if there is a limit on the total size of the files that
> you can upload.

Just noticed that it is supposedly 100M... Of course, there's another
limit that one will likely hit before they get to the 100M limit...
It's the limit of 100 files... I hit the 100 file limit at around the
2M point...

> 2. Attempt to override their web editor and upload my own HTML files
> there.

You can upload your own HTML files and you can have your main page
with hyperlinks to them, but the initial page seems to have to be
created by them... So, I guess you could just create a minimal splash
page that said something like, "Click Here" to let it go to your own
website design where you have full control of the HTML... Putting a
'default.htm' or 'index.htm' on the site doesn't overwrite whatever
their default page name is either... If you do upload a HTML file to
the site, you cannot edit it there, you have to edit it on your local
machine and re-upload it... One other thing that is somewhat
aggravating is that it doesn't seem like it is possible to create
subdirectories on your site... Everything needs to be in one
directory... Basically a flat file system... Kind of antiquated...

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GWB - 23 Jul 2006 06:06 GMT

>> 1. Find out if there is a limit on the total size of the files that
>> you can upload.
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>subdirectories on your site... Everything needs to be in one
>directory... Basically a flat file system... Kind of antiquated...

sh.t!
Take a perfectly simple thing and muck it all up <BG>

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Grumman-581 - 23 Jul 2006 06:42 GMT

> sh.t!
> Take a perfectly simple thing and muck it all up <BG>

It seems to have potential... It's still in beta though... They have
imposed an artificial limit on it (hopefully, just for now)... It
allows someone who is not familiar with HTML to be able to create a
series of pages with minimal knowledge using their predefined
templates... I ran into the 100 file limit way before I got anywhere
close to 100M though... The pages do not use the full width of your
browser window, so I have to suspect that they are leaving room for
eventually filling those spaces with advertisements like we see on the
side when we are using the web interface to Gmail...

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