google sites lightning talk

Sitesor a poor man’s database

(ok, really, MS Access)

Colin Charlesbyte@bytebot.net

http://bytebot.net/blog/

27/06/2009

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Hosted sites

• Geocities?

• Tripod?

• AngelFire?

• Google Sites

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Benefits

• Can put it on your (sub)domain

• site.bytebot.net

• Can have it as part of Google Apps for Your Domain

• You get a whole lot more space (100MB/site vs 10GB/domain)

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An embarrassment from 1996

from web.archive.org

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Not much has changed in 2009

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Why do I bother?

• I blog a lot more these days, rather than update static HTML pages

• vim foo.html; rsync -e ssh -vzra foo.html bytebot.net:~/public_html/

• Pages on the other hand are great for “resource building”

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So, what’s Google Sites?

• Multimedia, calendars, presentations, text, all in one place

• Easy to use editor (like office software)

• Control permissions for viewing/editing

• Gadgets

• I want to play with this more

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But what really rocks?

• Templates!

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OK, its not just that

• Analytics integration

• AdSense integration

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Lists

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Lists

• Type:

• Checkbox, Date, Dropdown, Text, URL

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Voila! Poor man’s MS Access

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Embedding gadgets

Literally a pull-down menu away

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Problems?

• AdSense, you can’t track based on a channel

• Option to tag, in terms of type (making for easier organisation)

• Imagine a field where it was freeform “text”, but comma separation garnered them as tags

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Your experiences?

Thanks!

Colin Charlesbyte@bytebot.net

http://bytebot.net/blog/

Saturday, 27 June 2009