Serendipity35

I have recommended using Google's free web page creation service several times before here. I had used it with students to do some web site creation because it's free hosting, a unique URL and other services and you don't need to know any HTML. It had limitations, in that you couldn't really do anything with the code even if you were knowledgeable. 

Then Google offered a service called "Sites" which added what "Pages" lacked and I wrote about that too.

My students this semester informed me that they were unable to register for the Page Creator service. Here's some info from Google:

We are no longer accepting new sign-ups for Page Creator because we have shifted our focus to developing Google Sites, which offers many of the capabilities of Page Creator along with new features like site-level navigation, site-level headers, control over who can see and edit your site, and rich embeddings like calendars, videos, and Google docs.

If you are currently a Page Creator user, you can continue to use Page Creator and your pages will automatically be transitioned to Google Sites later this year. We are committed to making this transition as smooth and easy as possible, and we will post more details as we get closer to the transition time. You can also manually move your web pages from Page Creator to Google Sites or other service providers at any time.

more info at http://pages.google.com/-/about.html#faq

Google is known for leaving its services in a kind of perpetual "beta" mode. After all, Gmail with its millions of users is still in beta. So, its not surprising that they are making this "upgrade" to the service. It still gets a thumbs up from me.