Right, I made it up. There is no such a thing as of now. There is Google Page Creator aka Google Web Pages in the Google Apps land... Which was the source of inspiration for this post.
It must be in a deep beta as there is no mention of Web Pages on the Google Apps wecome page. Nonetheless, login to your Google Apps account and it is there at your disposal.
There is not much there at this point. You can sketch a quick page based on a handful of fairly similar templates and a couple of basic layouts. CSS is not directly supported meaning there is no (conventional) way of customizing a template or a layout and you have to resort to Javascript CSS hacks if you want to do so.
Now with all that Google Sites hype it seems like the guys are serious about carving a piece of the enterprise hosted applications pie. And the next logical step seems to be a hosted content management system. No, I'm not talking about Page Creator/Web Pages. I'm taking about a real CMS where you can compose pages out of reusable blocks, plug in modules providing extended functionality, and change your page layout and look and feel as you deem appropriate.
Ironically, such systems are a download away. The options range from Drupal to Alfresco. It's interesting that there's nothing to buy here - the options are all open source. It wouldn't be too far-fetched to imagine a Google-branded hosted version of one of the excellent open source content management systems. Which one largely depends on the synergies between Google technology and the CMS technology.
Google is known for having the infrastructure that scales. What's unclear is whether they have the talent to comfortably branch and maintain an open source product. I hope they do.
Whatever they say, Google still has a chance in the enterprise. I'm waiting for Google CMS.
1 comments:
Me too... i was so optimistic about the idea i googled google CMS in the hope that i'd find it... but i only found you.
what i really want is a really slim CMS, which has just enough code to use and skin the APIs for flickr, gcalendar, youTube... i don't want another unmaintained open-source gallery, or another calendar with not enough features, or a blog that i have to update every month to keep ahead of the spam engines. i want my own site with my own URL with my own words and pictures and stuff, and i want someone else to maintain the code.
i want google CMS.
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