Moving to free Google-apps Sites.

http://www.google.com/sites/overview.html

Happy to share that tattvum.com now has moved to google apps - sites. You might remember that it is already in google apps for email, which also gives extra flexibility to create and share documents, which we are not using. The domain name is with godaddy, with MX pointed to google apps, and A record to space2host. That was past! The space2host is expiring in jan, so I was exploring if there is a simple model to host a site with our own domain name? All I'm using space2host is for static html.

I tried Page Creator of google, but looks like that is deprecated for Sites. Indeed Sites is wonderful, and with some nifty DNS forwarding and a www CNAME, as suggested by google, we have a very custom made and very flexible website all free, except for the domain name with godaddy.

Please check, http://www.tattvum.com and kindly alert me if I have missed anything in the one-day sweet effort of transition.

Hopefully now, with the totally online way to draft and publish new articles (even blogs?) maybe I/we can write more often.

Reflecting on this experiance, I think Sites is a superset of all Google's previous efforts: Start page, Page Creator, even Docs eventually? All you need is just gmail (this includes talk) and sites? Even with some tweeking it provides all benefits of XWiki, and Groups! Great direction.