Playing Around with Google Page Creator
I've been playing around with Google Page Creator for the last four or five days. This wonderful free service from Google enables people to create a collection of web pages, all of which can be linked to one another.
A wonderfully liberating aspect of Google Page Creator is that you (on your own) just create a page, write your content, hit the "Publish" button and voila... Your pages are available to the world on the web. That is, you do NOT have to know HTML code or any other technical stuff. I'm darn near 60 and if I can do it (and I have) then you can too!
HUGE props to Google and the Google team that developed and made available this excellent tool! The concept of providing "anyone and everyone for FREE" with the means to easily and simply create a presence on the World Wide Web is breathtaking.
My experiences in playing around with this tool oftentimes brought to mind admiring thoughts for the rather amazing sound thinking, technological knowledge, methodologies and highly exacting attention to detail possessed and put to work by web designers, programmers, graphics designers, user interface specialists, information architects and all other technological magicians... HUGE props to each of you!
On many occasions in the past I've asked young people, "How did you learn all of this amazing technical knowledge?" to which they replied, "I learned by playing around, just trying stuff out to see what happens". Well, I wasn't so comfortable with the concept of "playing around", kind of afraid of breaking something that couldn't be put right again.
I now realize that my basic question and the essential answer provided by these amazing young people (including my son Aaron and my friend Sarah from the UK) clearly revealed two (contrasting) attitudes... Mine, apprehension, theirs... I'm going to jump in, find out and learn.
Well, with these last few days of "my playing around" with Google Page Creator I've made a leap toward sharing the wondrous attitude of these young people... Another GREAT concept made real, "I'm going to jump in, find out and learn".
A wonderfully liberating aspect of Google Page Creator is that you (on your own) just create a page, write your content, hit the "Publish" button and voila... Your pages are available to the world on the web. That is, you do NOT have to know HTML code or any other technical stuff. I'm darn near 60 and if I can do it (and I have) then you can too!
HUGE props to Google and the Google team that developed and made available this excellent tool! The concept of providing "anyone and everyone for FREE" with the means to easily and simply create a presence on the World Wide Web is breathtaking.
My experiences in playing around with this tool oftentimes brought to mind admiring thoughts for the rather amazing sound thinking, technological knowledge, methodologies and highly exacting attention to detail possessed and put to work by web designers, programmers, graphics designers, user interface specialists, information architects and all other technological magicians... HUGE props to each of you!
On many occasions in the past I've asked young people, "How did you learn all of this amazing technical knowledge?" to which they replied, "I learned by playing around, just trying stuff out to see what happens". Well, I wasn't so comfortable with the concept of "playing around", kind of afraid of breaking something that couldn't be put right again.
I now realize that my basic question and the essential answer provided by these amazing young people (including my son Aaron and my friend Sarah from the UK) clearly revealed two (contrasting) attitudes... Mine, apprehension, theirs... I'm going to jump in, find out and learn.
Well, with these last few days of "my playing around" with Google Page Creator I've made a leap toward sharing the wondrous attitude of these young people... Another GREAT concept made real, "I'm going to jump in, find out and learn".
posted by Sheamus J. at 7:43 AM
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