Creating a complete personal website with Blog, Guestbook and Gallery in Google page creator (GPC)
Just today I finished my personal website on GPC.
I thought, I should share my experience so that somebody wishing to create their own personal website shouldn't be wondering how to?, again for the same things which i was wondering once.
I always wanted to host my personal site someday and i was looking in to so many free hosting solutions, none of which was satisfactory in some way or the other. AtLast came google with their free hosting service.
Oh I was one of those most happy fellows out there. Free hosting for 100 megs of data that too Ad free. Great!
Oh no... my happiness lasted not so long...GPC only supports client side scripting and not server side. no FTP too. catch.
So I need to look in to how to add my guest book, gallery and blog...
First, I started with blog...searching..searching..gotcha. Blogger supports templates. I can make my site template and replace it instead of the one provided by blogger. Cool.
Done. But, one thing was annoying..the top navigation bar from blogger. Blogger does not provide you the option to remove it if you are using their blogspot hosting. So I have to add the following script to make it go.
#b-navbar {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
}
I got this script googling. Thank you whomsoever posted that script.
Ok so i got my blog, wat next? Guest book.
Initially i thought of using blogger's own comenting system but some how it was not configurable to achieve a guest book kinda look.
So i was looking for some other commenting system and tried Haloscan and Yaccs.
Haloscan was good but they had their Ads in between.
Finally i settled for Yaccs.
Perfect. No ads and provide user templating system, so that we can add our look and feel. But one catch.
They restrict the no of letters for template code to 3500. Thats kinda trick to get our code to match. But still nice commenting system.
Good. atlast only gallery is left to be done.
It dont need server side scripting to get a photo gallery working. WOW. So i can host my gllery in GPC itself instead of third party.
First i was looking for some ajax gallery and finally settled for this flash one. This one is from XMLPhotoalbum. I tweaked the gallery source code to adapt to my taste.
Used picassa to export the pictures and use it with XMLPhotoalbum.
and there's my complete site with a blog, guest book and a gallery. Looking cool uh?
I thought, I should share my experience so that somebody wishing to create their own personal website shouldn't be wondering how to?, again for the same things which i was wondering once.
I always wanted to host my personal site someday and i was looking in to so many free hosting solutions, none of which was satisfactory in some way or the other. AtLast came google with their free hosting service.
Oh I was one of those most happy fellows out there. Free hosting for 100 megs of data that too Ad free. Great!
Oh no... my happiness lasted not so long...GPC only supports client side scripting and not server side. no FTP too. catch.
So I need to look in to how to add my guest book, gallery and blog...
First, I started with blog...searching..searching..gotcha. Blogger supports templates. I can make my site template and replace it instead of the one provided by blogger. Cool.
Done. But, one thing was annoying..the top navigation bar from blogger. Blogger does not provide you the option to remove it if you are using their blogspot hosting. So I have to add the following script to make it go.
#b-navbar {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
}
I got this script googling. Thank you whomsoever posted that script.
Ok so i got my blog, wat next? Guest book.
Initially i thought of using blogger's own comenting system but some how it was not configurable to achieve a guest book kinda look.
So i was looking for some other commenting system and tried Haloscan and Yaccs.
Haloscan was good but they had their Ads in between.
Finally i settled for Yaccs.
Perfect. No ads and provide user templating system, so that we can add our look and feel. But one catch.
They restrict the no of letters for template code to 3500. Thats kinda trick to get our code to match. But still nice commenting system.
Good. atlast only gallery is left to be done.
It dont need server side scripting to get a photo gallery working. WOW. So i can host my gllery in GPC itself instead of third party.
First i was looking for some ajax gallery and finally settled for this flash one. This one is from XMLPhotoalbum. I tweaked the gallery source code to adapt to my taste.
Used picassa to export the pictures and use it with XMLPhotoalbum.
and there's my complete site with a blog, guest book and a gallery. Looking cool uh?
Any comments?
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