Saturday, July 26, 2008

Google Sites

After nearly two years I finally have found a toolset that meets my family website needs.  It's free and on-line & called "Google Sites"  http://sites.google.com/

I created our original family website back in the late 1990's using MS Frontpage Express.  Simple to use but lacked features. In 2003 I rebuilt the site using the full MS Frontpage. Still simple to use but only worked well with IIS-enabled servers.

And so the site remained, I have Dreamweaver CS3 but it seems to complex for a simple family site. This led me to start looking at on-line tools, I tried Windows Live but it lacked something and then this weekend I found Google Sites.

Sites is really aimed at groups & small to medium-sized businesses, but I've found it does an admirable job for a family site.  In less than an hour I had our site migrated and on-line.  I'm hooked.

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