Naming GooglePages

Each GooglePage has two important names associated with it. First is the filename under which it is originally created and subsequently published. Second is the title, which is basically the text content of the title field.

No two pages can have the same filename. When a page is "duplicated" in Page Manager, a number is added after the original name starting with "2", e.g., sequential duplicates of filename page will be filename2, filename3, etc. Pages can have the same title, although it may lead to some confusion when trying to locate a particular page in Page Manager.

Page titles are primarily important because they become part of the actual HTML TITLE tag when a page is published in GPC. The full TITLE for each page is in format:
site name - page title
where site name is set in "Site Settings". Search engines are believed to pay attention to page TITLE tags, so it is advisable to use a relevant title for each GooglePage.

However, when creating a new GooglePage, the title entered in the "Create a new page" field becomes the filename for that page. So it may be a good idea to first create a page with a name that works well as a filename and then changes its title to something more appropriate.

Borders around Images

GooglePage templates use two different CSS methods for adding borders to images. One is the BORDER attribute and another is PADDING. These are style properties, however, that GPC allows users to modify and customize, so by adding or changing BORDER and PADDING attributes for individual images, it is possible to change or remove the default borders.

Template Colors

The new CSS headers that GooglePages automatically adds to the pages are actually a lot more readable than those served by the original version of GPC (use the "view page source" browser option to view the CSS header for this page). One advantage of readable CSS headers is the ability to look up the specific colors used in a particular template, in order to create matching custom graphics or text.

Path for GooglePages includes

Sometimes GooglePages elements need to be used on a page not located on a GooglePages site, e.g., while building a page in an external HTML Editor. The deafult CSS header than needs to be modified to provide absolute paths to the standard GooglePages CSS elements. The corresponding URIs appear as
url(/-/includes/ ...
and need to be replaced with
http://pages.google.com/-/includes/ ...