Loving and hating Google Sites

I made the decision recently to build up my professional site.  I also decided to try something different and use Google Sites for the whole thing, thereby foregoing the whole process of designing and coding a new website.

This has had it's advantages and disadvantages.

On the advantage side, I've been able to focus entirely on what (in my humble opinion) matters the most: the content.  I simply chose a template and went about writing what it is I wanted the site to say.  So that was rather nice.  No worrying about layouts and colors, no fretting about optimizing the code, no debating back and forth about a million little things that don't really matter.

On the disadvantage side, I have no friggin control over the design or code.  Seeing as how I'm not a designer, I can bite my tongue on esthetics.  But as a former HTML coder, it irks me to no end just how bad the code is.  The same seems to be true for all Google products, including blogger.  I also can't edit the footer, which guarentees that anyone who comes to the site will be able to discern that I am, indeed, using Google Sites, which in turn looks less professional.

Verdict: It's great for my purposes, because I can bite the bullet and deal with the tradeoffs, but I would never recommend it to a client.