Ok, so I've started a website called Shaggy Dad. I registered the domain of ShaggyDad.com. I also registered a domain for the Blog as well. You may notice that you're now sitting at AwayFromKeyboard.org instead of a blogspot address. Yes, that's because I'm awesome. I must admit that the 'Google Sites' tools seem very limited. It works in somewhat the same manner as the blog control.
Everything is pretty much static and you can't get into the HTML of each page. You edit the HTML
within the page but not the page or any static gadgets that they place. For instance I wanted to take the header and do some custom work to it. Instead of just having a feature that says edit source HTML you have to go into control for the header. Then you have the options of using pictures, colors, text, etc to personalize the header. While this is a very strong suite of tools for the average user it is lacking for a super user.
I'm not saying that I'm hot shit by any means. I'm somewhere between lukewarm and spicy. I don't know the advanced php/html tricks but I teach myself as a desire or need for said tricks arises. I taught myself GIMP when I decided to make my own custom BIOS image from scratch. I also taught myself html/php when I started making my own website several years ago.
While I love to toot my horn the point of the above statements is not to point out my strengths but rather to point out the weakness of Google Sites tools. I should be able to do anything I want to my web page. Including fuck it up into something that won't work. That's how we learn. While you're making it easy for a soccer mom to create a web page you're limiting Shaggy Dad from doing everything that he wants. Maybe I haven't spent enough time with the tools yet.
