Google are now offering free websites to anyone who would like such a thing. They’re by no means the first to offer this, and of course you do have to design it yourself, but they do make it pretty easy for you.

Within 2 hours, I’d put together a basic test site with about 8 pages, with personalised backgrounds etc. If nothing else, I think google sites could be useful as a way of ‘drafting’ a website, before going to a web designer to get the ‘real thing’ made. Anyone who has been through the web design process will know that a huge part of the process is deciding what information goes where.

Here’s google’s intro to their new offer;

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