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This is the first complete and comprehensive Google Page Creator Frequently Asked Questions. It has more than 100 questions covering registration issues, web designing and editing, cool features addition and troubleshooting. This FAQ contains some official Google answers and the best of Google Page Creator community's FAQ and help pages.

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127 Questions

Here are the main sections:

A. Getting Started (36)

B. Developing your Website (70)

C. Publish and Share (9)

D. Troubleshooting (12)


A. Getting Started

1. Registration issue

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2. Site Settings

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3. Site Manager

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4. General Questions

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B. Developing your Website

1. Managing Pages

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2. Managing Files

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3. Designing Pages

3.1. look and layout

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3.2. Images

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3.3 Text Style

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3.4 Linking

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4. Adding Features

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C. Publish and Share

1. Publishing your pages

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2. Sharing your pages

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D. Trouble shooting

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ANSWERS

A. Getting Started

1. Registration issue

A.1.1. How do I sign up for Google Page Creator?
To use Google Page Creator, all you need is a Gmail account. You can get a Gmail account if you're invited by someone who already has one, or you can sign up for a Gmail account here.

A.1.2. How do I sign in to Google Page Creator?
Just enter your Gmail address and password, then click on “Sign in.”

A.1.3. How do I sign out of Google Page Creator?
Just click "Sign out" in the top-right corner. That's it.

A.1.4. Why was my site disabled by Google?
If your site was disabled by Google, it means that you broke one of the rules stated in our Terms of Use: http://pages.google.com/-/terms_of_use.html. Google claims that they are unable to re-enable or investigate your site since Google Page Creator is still a Google Labs product.

A.1.5. Is it possible to password protect or restrict access to pages?
This feature is not offered right now but Google claims to keep this option in mind in future releases.

A.1.6. What happens if I delete my Google Account or my Gmail account?
If you delete either of these accounts, you'll lose all access to Google Page Creator, and to the website you've created. Once your account has been deleted, there is no way to restore your site.

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2. Site Settings

A.2.1. How do I enable experimental features?
You can enable experimental features on your site by following these steps:
1. Log in to Google Page Creator using your Google Account.
2. Click the "Site settings" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
3. Click the "Enable experimental features" button.
4. A description of the experimental features will open. Click "Yes" to enable them.
You can disable experimental features at any time by returning to your "Site settings" and clicking the "Disable experimental features" button.

A.2.2. Can I change the URL (website name) of my site?
No you can't.

A.2.3. Can I change my site's name?
Just click on "Site settings" in the top-right corner of the Page Manager. Then, enter a new name in the box under "Site name."

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3. Site Manager

A.3.1 What's that little house icon?
The house icon denotes your homepage.

A.3.2. What's my "Page Manager" or "Site Manager"?
What are experimental features?

A.3.3. What are experimental features?
Google Page Creator's experimental features allow users to add a variety of exciting, new, untested modules to their sites. Because these features are untested, it's possible that they may behave erratically. For example, they could change your page's display or cause bugs on your page.

A.3.4. What's the difference between my homepage and my other pages?
Technically, there's no difference (other than the little house icon). If you want a central navigation point for the rest of your pages, though, I suggest that you use this page.

A.3.5. How do I create a new site?
You just dropped me into my homepage. What do I do now?

A.3.6. You just dropped me into my homepage. What do I do now?
You can edit the title of your page, add text, add images, change the layout or look of your page, create other pages and link to them....

A.3.7. How do I create more pages?
Check it here (B.1.1)

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4. General Questions

A.4.1. What's a site?
A site is a collection of pages with a common sub-domain. The collection of pages in your Page Manager comprises a single site.

A.4.2.What's a homepage?
A homepage is like the table of contents in a book. It's the first page of your site, and, ideally, the place from which users can easily navigate to your other pages.

A.4.3.What's the difference between a page and a site?
Are there space restrictions?

A.4.4.Are there space restrictions?
How do I enable JavaScript?

A.4.5. How do I enable JavaScript?
We've provided instructions below on how to change your settings:

Microsoft Internet Explorer (6.0)
- Select "Tools" from the top menu
- Choose "Internet Options"
- Click on the "Security" tab
- Click on "Custom Level"
- Scroll down until you see section labeled "Scripting"
- Under "Active Scripting", select "Enable" and click "OK"

Mozilla Firefox (1.0)
- Select "Tools" from the top menu
- Choose "Options"
- Choose "Web Features" from the left navigation
- Select the checkbox next to "Enable JavaScript" and click "OK"

Please keep in mind that upgrading your browser or installing new security software or security patches may affect your JavaScript settings.

A.4.6.Does Google offer web hosting?
Google doesn't currently offer any web hosting, but you still may be interested in Google Page Creator. Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes. To check out it, just visit http://pages.google.com. For more information on how to use this product or to ask questions, you can check out our Help Center and Google Group.

A.4.7.Who is Google Page Creator for?
Google Pages service is probably meant for people who like to create personal pages about themselves and their hobbies. Some firms seem to have also created their own sites with Google Pages, but they might not be taken as seriously as companies who have their own web domains and their web site is created by a professional web designer. On the other hand, for example a small company might not need a professional looking web site anyway.

A.4.8.What about Google Pages and spam?
Because your Google Pages site has the same beginning as your Gmail account's beginning (as in YOURACCOUNT.googlepages.com and in YOURACCOUNT@gmail.com) spammers can easily harvest email addresses from Google Pages sites using automatic bots (as they can from other free web site services also where the site name is constructed from the email address). On the other hand, Gmail's spam filter does a fairly good job and you should use a free email address only for non-serious things other than your business or your job, because free email services can be more unpredictable and have more problems. Also, spam bots may find your email address from other sources such as from other web pages, discussion forums, and mailing lists. One way to try to avoid spam is that there should be a "Create a new site" link at the top of the Site Manager page, so you can create another site, which doesn't have the same beginning as your Gmail account.

A.4.9.How much does it cost to use Google Page Creator? Will you ever charge for this service?
Google Page Creator is entirely free. And Google claim that it doesn’t have any immediate plans to charge for it.

A.4.10.What browsers work with Google Page Creator?
Google Page Creator will work wherever you have access to the Internet via a Windows or Macintosh computer with one of these OSs / browsers:

WinXP - IE6+, IE 7, FF 1.5+
Mac OSX - FF 1.5+
Linux - FF 1.5+

Make sure you have the latest version of your browser. Regardless of your browser type, you must enable Javascript. Here are the instructions on how to change your settings

A.4.11.How fast will my page be indexed by Google?
Your site will get the same coverage as a site using Google Sitemaps; you don't have to do a thing.

A.4.12.Is Google Page Creator available in other languages?
Nope. It is only available in English.

A.4.13.How soon will my pages be available on the web?
As soon as you publish them. This is how you publish your webpage.

A.4.14.How frequently will my page get crawled by Google?
Read google sitemaps web page.

A.4.15.How soon will my pages be available in Google's search index?
To get your Google Pages site indexed by Google Web Search and because Google has limited resources, Google doesn't index all the pages on the web, so you need incoming links from other sites as they are an
essential way for Google's automatic indexing algorithms to figure out which web sites are important, popular or interesting enough to get indexed by Google. You can find more info from Google's webmaster
pages and from various search engine optimization (SEO) pages:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40349&topic=8522
http://gpsgfaq.googlepages.com/index.html#neverindexed
http://www.google.com/search?&q=SEO+basics&num=100

Moreover don't forget to submit your website url to their Google Search engine: you can do it here.

A.4.16.How do I report a site that's violating Page Creator's Terms of Use?
If you find a site that's violating Google Page Creator's Terms of Use, you can report the site here

A.4.17.Can I use CGI/PHP/ASP technologies in GPC?
At the moment GPC doesn't support CGI/PHP/ASP technologies. On the other hand you can use some free web host which provide support for php, sql. check this page as applied example

A.4.18. How to get your site indexed and verified?
In summary there are 3 things you can do:
1. Submit your website URL to google (This is the major step towards getting your website indexed by Google search engine). Lately google mentioned the follow: "<< Inclusion in Google's search results is free and easy; you don't even need to submit your site to Google. Google is a fully automated search engine that uses software known as "spiders" to crawl the web on a regular basis and find sites to add to our index. In fact, the vast majority of sites listed in our results aren't manually submitted for inclusion, but found and added automatically when our spiders crawl the web. >> " So it is up to you to decide whether you want to submitted or not.
2. Verify your website with Google.  This is will not necessary get your website indexed but it would be nice to be able to use this tool.
3. Let people link back to you.

A.4.19.How do I submit my URL to Google?
Go to http://www.google.com/addurl/ and insert your website URL in the URL text box. You website name should look like http://YourLoginName.googlepages.com. Fill in the required fields and then click on "Add URL" button. Once you are done all you can do is to wait until your site is indexed or better start marketing your website to everyone so that people ass links referring to your website. Indexing your website by Google takes usually from 1 week up to to one month, so be patient!

A.4.20.How do I Verify my website with Google?
If you are curious to know what is a sitemap then please go here. Google has developed a tool that provides information about your added sites, Sitemaps, their latest updates, and also allows you to add new Sitemaps. In other words you can monitor the health/life of your website in Google Search Engine. It allows you also to identify crawling errors and other details. This is called Google Webmaster Tools

First you need to verify your website:
1. Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/
2. Login and register your site in there
3. Choose the "upload HTML file" method when they ask you to verify your site
4. Copy the name provided by the system for later use.
5. Open Notepad or Wordpad.
6. Select "File -> Save As..."
7. At the bottom and for the file type drop-down box choose "All files *.*" instead of "Text file *.txt"
8. Paste the name of the file provided by google (the one that you copied) and add a .html to the file name. For example: "google12dsdasdgfdge.html"
9. Save the empty file somewhere on your computer. Make sure that your file is identified as an .html file
10. Go to your Google Page Creator Site Manager and upload the file to your page (help on uploading file)
11. Now normally your site should be verified.
12. As for the sitemap, you don't need to create it since Google Page Creator automatically creates a sitemap, which is available at: http://YourLoginName.googlepages.com/sitemap.xml
13. Go back to your webmasters tool account and input that url when prompted.
15. After you are done with that, you should have a "1" under sitemap, and a green "v" in the "verified?" column.
16. Now that your your website has been verified, you can start using all of the webmaster tool features.

A.4.21. What is a sitemap?
As defined by wikipedia: "A site map (or sitemap) is a graphical representation of the architecture of a web site. [1] It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site."

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B. Developing your Website

1. Managing Pages

B.1.1. How do I create a page?
Just click on "Create a new page" on the far left of your Page Manager, or click on "Create new page" on the top left of any individual page. Then, enter a title for your new page and click "Create."

B.1.2. How do I delete a page?
From the Page Manager, select the page you'd like to delete, then choose "Delete" from the drop-down menu. We'll ask you if you're sure you want to delete the page; if you're sure, just click "OK," and the page will be deleted.

B.1.3. How do I edit my pages?
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B.1.4. How do I select all of my pages?
From the Page Manager, click on "All" in the top middle or bottom middle of the page.

B.1.5. How many pages can I create?
At this time, you can create up to 500 pages for your Google Page Creator site which is more than enough.

B.1.6. Where is the edit HTML link?
The "edit HTML" button is at bottom right-hand side of the page.

B.1.7. How do I change from Grid view to List view?
Just click on "List" near the top-right corner of your Page Manager. To switch back, simply click on "Grid."

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2. Managing Files

B.2.1. How do I upload a file?
Just click on the "upload" link to the right side of your Page Manager. A new window will then open; in this new window, click on "Browse," select a file from your computer, then click on "Upload."

B.2.2.How many files can I upload?
At this time, you can upload as many as 500 files.

B.2.3.How big can uploaded files be?
Currently, uploaded files can be no larger than 10MB. Google claims a potential increase of this number in the future.

B.2.4.How do I delete uploaded files?
To delete uploaded files, go to your Page Manager screen and then work your way over to the “Uploaded stuff” area on the right hand side of the page. You should see a trash can next to each of the files you’ve uploaded. To delete a file, click on the trash can.

B.2.5. How do I hide my uploaded files?
To hide your uploaded files, just click on the arrow next to "Uploaded stuff" on the right side of your Page Manager." To display your uploaded files, just click on the arrow again.

B.2.6. How do I display my uploaded files?
To display your uploaded files, just click on the arrow next to "Uploaded stuff" on the right side of your Page Manager. To hide your uploaded files, just click on the arrow again.

B.2.7.Are there space restrictions?
yes there is. Check it here

B.2.8.How can I rename the url (page name) after I have created them?
Simply you can not rename them. You have to delete them and create a new page.

B.2.9.How can I rename create folders in which I organise my files?
There is no folder option for now. So you can't organize your file within folders and subfolders.

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3. Designing a Page

3.1. look and layout

B.3.1.1. How do I change the layout of my page?
Just click on "Change Layout" in the top-right corner of the page. Then, click on the layout you'd like.

B.3.1.2. How do I change the look of my page?
Just click on "Change Look" in the top-right corner of your page. Then, click on the look you'd like. To preview a look, click "Preview."

B.3.1.3. How do I change my site's name that appears in the browser title?
Check it here (link to A.2.3)

B.3.1.4. How do I choose a default page look?
Once you choose a look for one webpage, then all subsequent newly created pages will have their look the same as your last one.

B.3.1.5. How do I save my changes?
GPC saves your changes for you, automatically. To see the most recent time that we saved your changes, just look in the top-right corner of the Page Editor. (E.g. "Autosaved 10:32am") . You still can click the "save now" link in order to save it immediately.

B.3.1.6. How to change the GPC template: the background image, the background color (and much more)?
Check out philippe.chappuis, Google Page Creator Tips and Tricks

B.3.1.7. How to change the GPC width of columns?
Check out philippe.chappuis

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3.2 Images

B.3.2.1. How do I add an image?
Just click on a text field where you'd like to add an image, then click on "Image" in the top-left corner of the page. You can add an image from either your computer or the web.

To add an image from your computer, just select "your images." Next, click "Browse" to browse the files on your computer. Choose the appropriate file from your computer, then click "Add Image."

To add an image directly from the web, select "Web address (URL)." Then, enter the URL of the image you'd like to add. Hit Enter. Finally, click on "Add Image."

B.3.2.2. How do I move my images around the page?
Just click and drag. You can move your images anywhere on the page.

B.3.2.3. What about copyright and other issues?
Google Page Creator's image-upload feature allows you to upload and display images on your site. This is great when you want to add a photo you shot or an image you created. But there are a few details to note when it comes to images that are legally protected or hosted at someone else's expense.

ADDING IMAGES FROM THE WEB
If you choose to add an image from the web using the image-upload feature, you shouldn't use an image location that is hosted at someone else's expense without their permission. Sometimes this is referred to as "stealing bandwidth" because every time your page loads, the image is loaded from the other person's server, and this person likely incurs an expense.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS
Before you put an image in your page, realize that some images are protected as intellectual property through copyright. This means that the creator has sole legal rights to his or her works and may not want you copying and displaying them. If you're unsure whether or not an image is copyrighted, it's best not to risk it.

B.3.2.4. How do I link to an image?
Check out my GPC Tip

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3.3 Text Style

B.3.3.1. How do I change the color of my text?
Just highlight the text that you'd like to change (or click in a text field where you'd like to start creating text), then click on the "T" button to the far left side of the page. Finally, pick a color from our palette.

B.3.3.2. How do I change my text to boldface?
Just highlight the text you'd like to change (or click on a text field where you'd like to start creating bold text), then click on the "b" button to the far left side of the page. To unbold the text, just highlight it and click the "b" button again.

B.3.3.3. How do I create bullet points?
Just click in a text field where you'd like to create bullet points, then click on the bullet-points button to the far left side of the page. Next, just start typing.

B.3.3.4. How do I italicize my text?
Just highlight the text that you'd like to italicize (or click on a text field where you'd like to start creating italicized text), then click on the "i" button to the far left side of the page. If you'd like to undo the italics, just highlight the text and click the "i" button again.

B.3.3.5. How do I underline my text?
Click on the "edit HTML" button and surround your text by <u> and </u>. For instance: "<u>YOUR_TEXT</u>"

B.3.3.6. How do I change my font size?
Easy. Just highlight the text you'd like to change (or click in a text field where you'd like to start creating text), then click on the "tT" button to the far left side of the page.

B.3.3.7. How do I change my font type?
Just highlight the text you'd like to change (or click in a text field where you'd like to start creating text), then click on the "F" button to the far left side of the page.

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3.4 Linking

B.3.4.1. How do I add a link to a text?
Just highlight the text field where you'd like to add a link, then click on "Link" in the top-left corner of the page. Next, enter your link text and select what you're linking to -- "your pages," "your files," a "web address," or an "email address."
If you're linking to "your pages," select a page in the right pane.
If you're linking to "your files," upload and select a file.
If you're linking to a "web address," enter the web address.
If you're linking to an "email address," enter the email address.
Finally, click "Ok."

B.3.4.2. How do I add a link to an image?
Check out my GPC Help and my GPC Tip

B.3.4.3. How do I link to another page?
Check out my GPC Help

B.3.4.4. How do I link to location within the same page (Anchor)?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.3.4.5. How do I redirect automatically my page to another page?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.3.4.6. How do I redirect automatically with a timer my page to another page?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.3.4.7. How do I open a link in a new window?
Check out my GPC Tip

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4. Adding Features

B.4.1. How do I add Flash?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.2.How do I add Google AdSense?
Check out Google Page Creator Tips and Tricksand AdSense Insider Tutorial

B.4.3. How do I add Google video?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.4. How do I add a Youtube video?
Under each video on YouTube there is an "embed" texte box. Click on the code (it should stat with "<object ...", copy it and then paste it in your page HTML code (press "edit HTML" button before you paste). Check out my yoogle webpage.

B.4.5. How do I add Music?
Check out my GPC Tip, Joe's CPG Tool, Philippe Chappuis, and Martin's Blow

B.4.6. How do I add Stat counter?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.7. How do I add a contact Form or any type of input form?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.8. How do I add google maps?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.9. How do I add a javascript interactive menu?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.10. How do I add a Google picasa flash player?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.11. How do I add my own website icon(favicon)?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.12. How do I add a marquee(moving text)?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.13. How do I add google search bar?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.14. How do I add a clock?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.15. How do I add a personal guestbook on my webpage?
Check out Joe's CPG Tool

B.4.16. How do I add a Clustrmap to my website?
Check out Joe's CPG Tool

B.4.17. How do I create a password protected area?
Check out Joe's CPG Tool

B.4.18. How can I log in directly into my Gmail account from my site?
Check out Joe's CPG Tool

B.4.19. How do I create my own buttons and add them on my website?
Check out Joe's CPG Tool

B.4.20. How do I add a background music to a my webpage?
Check out Joe's CPG Tool

B.4.21. How can I create a sitemap?
Check out Joe's CPG Tool

B.4.22. How can I add Google gadgets?
Just go to your GPC site settings and click on "Enable experimental features" then click Yes. Now go to your page editor and a new "add gadget" link button will be showing up. Click it to add cool gadgets from google or other. Check out my games page for an example.

B.4.23. How can I Displaying my Google Calendar?
Check out Joe's CPG Tool

B.4.24. How can I add Google Analytics?
All you should do is:
1. Login to your google analytics account (the same as gmail account).
2. Within Google Analytics add a new website and Google will give you a code like follows:
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" googattrtype="text/ javascript" googscript="true" type="text/plain"></script><script googattrtype="text/javascript" googscript="true" type="text/plain"> _uacct = "UA-xxxxxx-y"; urchinTracker(); </script>

where xxxxxx you automatically generateg Google Analytics ID, and y the corresponding number of the website with Google Analytics. The first time, y should 1 since this is the first website you add. Don't confuse a website and a webpage. A website has a number of webpages and this code is for the whole website including all its webpages.
3. Click on the "edit HTML" button and copy and paste this code. It is common to put this code int he footer of the page.
4. Do the same thing on every page of your website with the same code.
You can also check out Joe's CPG Tool

B.4.25. How do I easily backup all my webpages?
Check out Joe's CPG Tool

B.4.26. How do I display my google page rank?
Go to My Google Page Rank and write your web page in the input box and then the website will provide you with the HTML code. Copy and paste the code in your web page.

B.4.27. How do I add a text Shout Box?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.28. How do I embed a Google Spreadsheet?
Check out my GPC Tip

B.4.29. How do I embed a Google Document?
Check out my GPC Tip

C. Publish and Share

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1. Publishing your pages

C.1.1. How do I publish my page?
You can publish a page in two ways. If you're in the Page Editor, just click on the "Publish" button located at the top-left corner of the page. If you're in the Page Manager, simply check the box at the top-left corner of the page you'd like to publish, then click on the "Publish" button. That's it. You've published your page to the web.

C.1.2. How do I preview my page?
Just hit "Preview." A new window will open showing what your live page will look like. To publish this page, just close the preview window and hit "Publish."

C.1.3. How do I unpublish my page?
Just click "unpublish" in the bottom right corner of the page. We'll ask if you're sure you want to unpublish the page; when you're sure, click "OK." (If you have second thoughts, just click "Cancel."). You can also unpublish a page by checking the appropriate box in the Page Manager, then selecting "Unpublish" from the drop-down menu.

C.1.4.How do I discard all the changes I've made to a page since I last published it?
Just check the box next to a page for which you'd like to discard changes, then select "Discard changes since last publish" from the drop-down menu.

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2. Sharing your pages

C.2.1. How can I tell my friends about my pages?
Just check the box next to a page you'd like to share with your friends, then select "Tell your friends" from the drop-down menu. We'll open a Gmail window with a message to your friends, Simply enter your friends' addresses in the "To" box, personalize the message if you like, then click "Send."

C.2.2. What is "Hide my site"?
What is "Hide my site"?
Hiding your site makes your site invisible to the public. When you hide your site, it will no longer appear in Google's index.
To hide your site, follow these steps:
1. Go to "Site Settings."
2. Check "Make this site unavailable to the public."
When you return to the Page Manager, you'll see a yellow box that says , "this site is hidden."
While you can still edit and publish your site, these changes won't appear until you go back and un-hide your site.

C.2.3. I don't want people to know what my email address is - can I hide my site?
Yeah for sure you can. Just follow these steps:
1. Go to "Site Settings"
2. Check "Make this site unavailable to the public"
It may take a few hours, or a few days for Google's index to refresh. After this is done, however, the site won't appear when a Google search is performed, and will no longer be accessible to the public.

C.2.4.Why would I want to hide my site?
If you're worried about someone finding your Gmail address, hiding your site can be used to erase a site whose URL contains your Gmail username. More generally, you can also hide any site that you'd like to remove from public view.

C.2.5. Is RSS available?
No it is not.

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D. Trouble shooting

D.1. What does "Exceeded Bandwidth Limit" mean?
"Exceeded bandwidth limit" basically refers to how much traffic your site can get during a given time. While Google have a limit set on it, they don't disclose the amount at this time. If you exceed the bandwidth limit on your site, your site will come back as soon as your site's traffic has fallen below the set amount.

D.2. What is the maximum file size that I can upload?
<link to uploading file>

D.3. I changed the layout of my page, and the text disappeared. What happened?
No need to worry -- Google Page Creator has saved your text. Simply switch back to the original layout, and your text will reappear. Please note that changing from a three-field layout to a two-field layout may cause some text to disappear. But text will be saved.

D.4. I updated my page, but the old version still appears in Google. Why?
You're probably seeing the cached version of your page. If you click on the link to your live page, then you'll see the most up-to-date version. When Google robots next crawl the web, the most up-to-date version of your page will replace the old version.

D.5. I unpublished my page, but it's still in the Google search results. How come?
Even if you've unpublished a page, a cached copy of it may continue to appear in our search index. This will be the case until our robots next crawl the web. When our robots next crawl the web, they'll see that your page isn't live and our search results will change to reflect that.

D.6.Why can't I see any scroll bars or menu items?
If you're unable to see scroll bars or menu items, your screen resolution may be set too low. To resolve the problem, please set your screen resolution to 1152 X 864 or higher.
If your screen resolution is set to either 800 x 600 or 1024 X 768, the toolbar won't be fully visible.
If the above listed tips don't work, hit F11 on your keyboard.

D.7.Why is my browser crashing when I'm using Google Page Creator?
If you're using Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0 and your browser is crashing, your version of IE may be out-of-date. To download IE updates, please visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

D.8. Why aren't the changes I'm making in Google Page Creator being reflected on my googlepages.com site?
Make sure to click on the "Publish" button after you make changes; until you do, the online version of your page will remain just as it was the last time you decided to publish. Occasionally, it may take up to 30 seconds after you click "Publish" for changes to be reflected on your site but most of times it take a couple of seconds.

D.9. I accidentally closed my browser before publishing my page. Did I lose the changes I made?
No, you did not. Google Page Creator automatically saves any changes you make, so you don't ever have to worry about losing your work

D.10. I cannot edit my page. I receive a message like: the page is locked or "Code corrupted, insert fresh copy"or similar messages. How can I fix this problem?
Most probably you have inserted a javascript code. If you have surely inserted a javacode in your pages, then you need to delete this code. Either you write to google to help you at http://www.google.com/support/pages/bin/request.py or you use adblock Firefox addon that will block the javascript code and let you again edit your page. Another possibility is that a meta tag with a time refresh too low, (10 sec and less). To resolve this problem do to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/ and install the Web Developer extension for Firefox and Disable Meta Redirects. Or if you are working in Internet explorer then go to "Internet option->Security Tab -> Internet Zone ->Select Custom Level-> Disable 'Allow Meta Refresh'. You still can contact google.

D.11. I get this message: cannot edit because of insufficient privileges. What shall I do?
Remove the coockies, close Firefox or IExplorer, make sure that you closed all processes related to Firefox or Iexplorer in task manager and then restart the browser.

D.12. My "edit html" code id being deleted. Sometimes when I insert some codes to my Google pages using the "edit html" button and click on "save changes", then I reclick the "edit html" the code disappears. What shall I do?
GPC doens't like some of the code you are inputing. It has some incompatibility with some code like

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