Spliffster's Journal: Googlepages discontinued

Googles first generation website authoring tools seem to have hit EOL.

Just a few minutes ago I have tried to create a new page at pages.google.com with a google account not having google pages set up yet an I was told:

Google Page Creator is no longer accepting new sign-ups. If you would still like to create your own free website, please use Google Sites. Learn more about this change.

Google states that pages.google.com is discontinued for the following reasons:

We are no longer accepting new sign-ups for Page Creator because we have shifted our focus to developing Google Sites, which offers many of the capabilities of Page Creator along with new features like site-level navigation, site-level headers, control over who can see and edit your site, and rich embeddings like calendars, videos, and Google docs. If you are currently a Page Creator user, you can continue to use Page Creator and your pages will automatically be transitioned to Google Sites later this year. We are committed to making this transition as smooth and easy as possible, and we will post more details as we get closer to the transition time. You can also manually move your web pages from Page Creator to Google Sites or other service providers at any time.

http://pages.google.com/-/about.html