Mark Craig's Page Creator Test

Google has come out with an in-browser HTML editor for static pages. I'm trying it out now.

It's mostly beginner-safe, though if you have absolutely no idea what's going on in the HTML, you might find some of the basic concepts confusing. Ask somebody to explain HTML to you. 

Functionality I See 

It allows you to add images like the screenshot from my blog showing glxgears in action. Moving the image worked by drag and drop, though I tried to put it on the left and it ended up on the right. Oh, well. My other problem with the image was that the pop-up style dialog that permits me to insert the image came up with buttons invisible at the bottom of the screen and no scrollbar. Too bad the screen resolution is only 1280x1024? GOOG's still worth a lot. Perhaps all the testers have been able to afford huge screens.

Page Creator also gives you some control of fonts and paragraphs.

Furthermore you can change the look and the layout in the fashion of StyleCatcher (point and click). Changing the look took a while, however. Page Creator saved this page in progress, then opened a large page of style thumbnails.

Links appear to work. Here's a link sending you to my blog.

I could create new links, but am too lazy to do more static pages by hand right now.

Where Are The Tables

Tables are a pain in HTML. They seem to be missing from Page Creator for now. The table below is hacked by hand:

I guess we are no longer supposed to use tables, but instead to learn CSS. Hmm.