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qwiddityI hate Google sites. I hate it so much if my hate manifested in the physical universe it would most likely obliterate everyone who had a hand in creating the sites management system by turning their intestines and neocortexes into frozen mercury. My hate is so cold, yet hell is not hot enough for this type of idiocy.
To begin with the hate, why is it not easy to make a page visible to the world? Why can't the management be simpler and more related to what pages actually exist on the server so that you can see what Google want to be serving up to the world who visits your webpage? Why, when I click on "share with the world", does my www.blah.com give me a login prompt and only allow me to view the site I made by logging in? Does it not get the point? I wouldn't have spent 30 minutes trying to make a webpage if I didn't want anyone to look at it. I'm sure that the focus of this project was to make the web easier to use by allowing everyone to publish to it, but honestly it is HARDER and more FRUSTRATING than I have ever, EVER found publishing webpages to be.
Google, I entreat thee, does it REALLY have to be this hard? I actually turned off the 'Sites' functionality and pasted the raw HTML into your old 'Pages' system because I was despairing of ever understanding why the new system wasn't letting my home page be publicly viewable, and once again was at the point of committing hardwarecide. Its crossed my mind that it might be easier in the long run to run my own webserver from a computer under my desk at home, from a modem, than use the 'Sites' service. Make it easier, or more people might start agreeing with me.
To begin with the hate, why is it not easy to make a page visible to the world? Why can't the management be simpler and more related to what pages actually exist on the server so that you can see what Google want to be serving up to the world who visits your webpage? Why, when I click on "share with the world", does my www.blah.com give me a login prompt and only allow me to view the site I made by logging in? Does it not get the point? I wouldn't have spent 30 minutes trying to make a webpage if I didn't want anyone to look at it. I'm sure that the focus of this project was to make the web easier to use by allowing everyone to publish to it, but honestly it is HARDER and more FRUSTRATING than I have ever, EVER found publishing webpages to be.
Google, I entreat thee, does it REALLY have to be this hard? I actually turned off the 'Sites' functionality and pasted the raw HTML into your old 'Pages' system because I was despairing of ever understanding why the new system wasn't letting my home page be publicly viewable, and once again was at the point of committing hardwarecide. Its crossed my mind that it might be easier in the long run to run my own webserver from a computer under my desk at home, from a modem, than use the 'Sites' service. Make it easier, or more people might start agreeing with me.
