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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

Choosing a theme for your website


A website's theme sets its tone. It gives you some sense of what the site is about, even if you haven't read the text. When you see pictures of people in dark suits sitting before computer monitors, for example, you associate the website with some kind of a professional outfit. But if you see pictures of butterflies, playhouses, and bright color schemes, a children's organization of some sort comes to mind.

Office Live Small Business sets the tone of your website by displaying a picture in the site's header. The picture and its physical setting constitute a Theme. The Site Designer offers a large selection of themes that are good for projecting just about any kind of organization. Offer plumbing services? You're covered. Own a garage? No problem! No matter what kind of business you own, you're likely to find a theme that will set the right ambience for your website.

Now that you understand what a theme is, let's go and choose one for your website.