This is not exactly a hack, but it is too good of a service for me to leave out. To give you the Reader's Digest version, google pages allows you to create your own site with their WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor which is really easy to use, but you have the option to use html too.
You can also use it for file warehousing by uploading the files that you want to share to the 100 MB you get for free in your google pages account and hotlinking to them from your other sites. They do not have a clearly stated bandwidth limit, but it
is definitely pretty high, because I have never gone over it. Unfortunately, they have a file size limit of 10 MB per file. If you haven't noticed, I'm trying to prove how great hotlinking to their files is by hosting every file in my gmail section (besides the html documents) on a google pages account.
Visits to the gmail hacks section of my site do not use up my bandwidth:).
A lot of people wonder how it is possible to make a full html page, because there is no feature in google's program to create an html page that you can edit with an online editor. Since I'm a very bored person who tries to take advantage
of free services, I figured out how to. You can't create an html file in googlepages, but that doesn't mean you can't upload one...so...!!!
You can simply create an html file on your computer and use the file uploader to upload it. The only downside to this is that every time you wish to edit the page, you must edit it on your computer and re-upload it.
The pros: I might be a little biased, because I really like this service. You get basically unlimited storage, because there are probably enough gmail invites on the planet for everyone to have a couple million by now. You are allowed to hotlink to google pages files, so basically you're getting a lot of free bandwidth. For inexperienced webmasters, an easy to use WYSIWYG editor is available along with many site templates.
The cons: The file size limit is 10 MB, so you can't use this service to warehouse files that are too large. Apparently, there is a bandwidth limit, but nobody knows what it is. I wouldn't worry about this too much, because it seems too high for most users to reach.