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Microsoft Office Live Small Business: Beginner's Guide

By : Rahul Pitre
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Microsoft Office Live Small Business: Beginner's Guide

By: Rahul Pitre

Overview of this book

Microsoft Office Live Small Business is an internet service that helps small businesses create web sites, and promote and market themselves. And you don't need to buy or install any new software to use it. All you need is a web browser. Office Live Small Business's WYSIWYG, browser-based tools make developing a web site a breeze. But you can't build good web sites with great tools alone; you also need a basic understanding of web design fundamentals. This book will walk you through Office Live Small Business's fundamentals, and then show you how to use its design tools effectively. While you may not become a professional web designer just by reading this book, you'll certainly be able to build a web site for your small business that will make your competitors envious and your friends jealous. This book is all you need for getting started and developing your web presence with Microsoft Office Live Small Business. From setting up and running Small Business for the first time to creatively using its tools, this book delivers everything you need to know. Microsoft Office Live Small Business is controlled from the browser, so all you require is an internet connection, and this book, to get rolling. Over the course of 10 chapters, and five appendices, this book will teach you to create effective content, organize it efficiently, and present it aesthetically. It also covers fine tuning, optimizing your site to be SEO friendly, and how to use the Reports that Office Live offers. This book is not about hard to build web animations or slick rollover effects. It's about providing concise, easy-to-find, and easy-to-understand information about your business on the web. Don't just build a web site - build a brand.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Microsoft Office Live Small Business
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
Preface
Signing Up: Opening a New Office Live Small Business Account
Submitting Your Site to Search Engines
Backup and Restore: Recovering From Disasters

Important preliminary points


Have you already signed up for Office Live Small Business? If not, now's the time.

You don't need to have a domain name to sign up and start creating your website. In fact, Office Live Small Business's sign-up process doesn't even ask you for one. It assigns a third-level domain alias to your website instead. After you build your site, and if you like it, you can register a domain name of your choice with a registrar of your choice and associate it with your website.

For example, when I opened an Office Live Small Business account for this book's companion website, I hadn't decided on a domain name. I just opened a new Office Live Small Business account and was assigned officeliveguide.web.officelive.com as the third-level domain name for my website. After I built the website, I registered the domain name officeliveguide.com and associated it with my website.

I recommend that you do the same. That way, you won't have to go through the hassle of changing registrars if you don't like your Office Live Small Business website.

Instructions for registering a new domain name for your website as well as instructions for pointing an existing domain name at your website are on the companion website at www.officeliveguide.com/domain.aspx.