Google Pages

I've started using Google Pages (took about a week and a half to get the invite once I put myself on the waiting list). It's nice for being so new, but it could definitely use some work. Especially in the area of speed, the editor is pretty slugish. I know that DHTML gets pretty slow when you try to do anything complex with it, but I am hoping the speed will get better. Maybe Google could make a plugin for Firefox that replaced the editor with a faster one using XUL. That would mean twice as much to maintain though.

Other than the speed, I like the service, I hope they will add some support for dynamic pages at some point. But for now it is at least good for those of us who are not HTML/CSS experts and certainly not designers. Sure, I know HTML and CSS, but I can't design a page, the template is way better than anything I could ever do. Take a look at my page (yes, this link is also on the side).

A few suggestions for Google Pages:

• Speed up the editor
• Use the same space for GMail and Google Pages (e.g. I have 2 gigs of GMail space + 100 MB of Pages space, combine them!)
• Add an easy method of adding RSS feeds to the page (already looking into how to do this)
  
• Not that I'm planning on using it, but maybe make it easy to add AdSense to the page
• Doesn't google have a photos service? Integrate with that too.

I must congratulate the Google developers on another great DHTML app though.