How to Create Your Personal Website Using Google Page Creator

Want to have your own personal website? Have no idea where or how to begin? In this series of tutorial, I'm going to walk you through designing your own website using the free Google Page Creator tool, and have it hosted on Google provided hosting service, for free. No experience required. At the end of this tutorial, you will not be an expert web designer. But hopefully you will have fun learning how to build your own website, and be in a position to be able to go further, if you so choose.

I still remember the time when I first decided to design my own personal website years ago. There weren't many easy tools to use and it wasn't easy to find a hosting service that would host your website for free. Today things have changed, for the better. There are more tools out there for you to choose, for whatever level of skills you have. And some of these are free too. Free web hosting is plentiful too. Just do a search on Google for "Free web hosting" will bring up pages on where these are.

First thing first

The first thing to do is to create a Google account, if you do not already own one. When you create a Google account, it also tie into other services such as the Gmail, Calendar, Picassa photo albums, Blogger, etc. Hence it is a good account to own, to begin with. Click this link to go to Google Page Creator. If you have a Google account, just sign in with your username and password. If you do not have one, then just click the No Gmail Account? Sign up link to sign up.

Tip: Your website url is tied to your account name. For example if your account name is johndoe, the the url for your website (after you published it) will be http://johndoe.googlepages.com. So choose a meaningful account name.

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