GooglePage hacks: How to hack Google Page Creator

I've messed around on googlepages for a while now and basically you can do anything you want essentially with the stuff that you upload, the only problem is the limits of the templates. One of the things that initially caught my eye was the dynamic nature of google's copy and paste feature within the templates.

Although there are many features not avalible in the template, if you copy and paste stuff from another site, then it might just be able to appear in the actual template, not just in the stuff that you uploaded.

For example, I havce a bfndevelopment.com account and I was able to use most of their features within the template by jut adding it to the html, but I encountered problems with the guestbook. I made a new blank html page with only the code and uploaded it to my ripway account. When it was online, I copied the guetbook from the http browser (just ran my mouse over it) and pasted into the googlepages templates, and it worked fine.

http://stanton7.googlepages.com/g4m35
on the bottom I just copied and pasted from my 4shared account...

http://stanton7.googlepages.com/test.2
UN=test, PW=n00b

The javascript features can be intergrated by putting in an html file, uploading, and using html *framed* redirection scripts it can be seemlessly incorperated into the template...

Also, the "experiental features" allow xml stuff and widgets and im sure there is a way to get php anf flash pages through this method as well...

3rd party xml code CAN BE INSERTED INTO THE TEMPLATES!!!
http://stanton7.googlepages.com/xml.google

I did not name my main page with a title.
I left it blank.

On the front page, it somewhat disables someone from linking to the page the editor is currently on. However, with my website I have found that there are certain little parts of the HTML code that the editor recognizes.

For instance, let's say I link to the other parts of my site on the ndex/main/home page, but the designer won't let me link to the home page. I happen to like redundancy for style when it comes to webdesign.

I didn't know how to deal with it's inability to let me create a redundant page link, so I passed ignored this for a while by creating a direct link to genecks.googlepages.com/

Notice:
This next section may have been some flaw, or I may have discovered something google didn't want to tell the general public.

After playing around some more, I decided I was sick of not having some "clean" redirect to a main page; thus, I created a page called home.

I had played around with this; I tried to make it look like the index page; then I decided I didn't like having a double look-alike homepage. Therefore, I deleted it.

Later on, however, I noticed that when I went to a different page I could link back to that site I just deleted. This was odd..

* This may have been a bug..

After noticing this, I went to the website to see if it was the main page. It looked like the duplicate I just tried to make, but I wasn't sure. So I took the homepage and altered it, I clicked the link and it went to the homepage that I just altered.

I then questioned: Is the homepage on googlepages called "http://www.genecks.googlepages.com/home"?

the /home part is the important part here.

I began to realize that it is.
I guess I tripped on a rock and noticed this one lying on the ground.

I decided to look at the raw HTML of the about page and see what I could abuse with this new knowledge.

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<font color="#ffffff">

| <a href="home">Main | <a href="about">About | <a href="archives">Archives | <a href="articles">Articles | <a href="community">Community | <a href="downloads">Downloads | <<a href="projects">Projects</a> | <a href="sitemap">Site Map</a> |<font color="#ffffff">

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This is what you should be looking at:
<a href="home">Main

Yes, the homepage is called "home".

I was thinking: Awesome, I can create that redundancy now.

Therefore, I went to the page home and changed the raw html of the navigation.

I inserted this bit:
<a href="home">Main

and I stopped using the direct link to the page which was: <http://www.genecks.googlepages.com>

Now it allows for me to redundantly edit that page.
Everything seems to be consistent for the navigation.

There are loads of hacks that you can do as you can upload html files and css to the server and access them using the name: http://username.googlepages.com/filename.extension

Martin

someone has a script or a thing like a Firefox extension like gmailspace, but for uploading my sound on my googlpage easily? thx

you can upload your own CSS and link to that. The only problem is with the default page, whose CSS you cannot define. Make it a generic welcome page and link to your normal pages.

you can add a page counter to track how many hits your GoogePages site gets by adding a free counter from someplace like these:
statcounter.com
easycounter.com

html upload works great --> http://lifetec.googlepages.com

You can upload html to googlepages and make it do whatever you want.

I happen to have a gpages account that i luckily signed up for right when it came out. I'm not extremely good with web design so its been really nice for people with no design experience. I'm guessing that since i have a files.bz account with 1gig of storage i can link it up through my googlepages and have a nice little website since gpages only has 100mb. I'm sure you could get a nice site going with multiple gpage acounts. thats the only hack i've got so far but thats not a hack, lol.

an as for templates and stuff couldnt you just use googlepages as a domain and drop a website into your gpages storage? it seems like it would work to me. if theres anything you guys want me to try out with my gpage then let me know.

all i get is 'Due to heavy demand, we are unable to offer new accounts for today.'
"for today"?! i've been seeing that message for 2 weeks!
does anyone have any Gmail invites??

I'm working on hacks and modifications for Google pages. if i figure anything out i will post.

can't edit the template or CSS or anything. it will be hard