Limitations
- 100 MB of storage (for free account) and 10 GB of storage for Google Apps users
- Must use provided site themes and structure (limited customization is available for text and background colors, font-type, font size, no open use of CSS (cascading style sheets) or JavaScript. However, CSS and Javascript can be used within the confines of an embedded gadget.
- Limited e-store capabilities, can not add a custom shopping cart, have to use the Google i-store gadget to add a shopping cart or a Google Buy Now button.
- A site can also be displayed on a custom domain (e.g. www.example.com, wiki.example.com, support.example.com), but one must own the domain and have access to change the CNAME records.
- Limited use of HTML coding. CSS cannot be incorporated in the theme templates.
- No longer serves .html/.htm web pages, like Google Pages did. All static HTML web pages previously hosted on Google Pages can be migrated to Google Sites, but users later attempting to access them (as well as PDF or other migrated files) must download those files, in order to view.
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“The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.”
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