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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

Time for action - opening the Site options dialog


  1. 1. Sign in to your Office Live Small Business account, if you haven't done so already, and go to Page Manager.

  2. 2. Pull down the Design Site menu from the Page Manager toolbar and select, Design site. The Site Designer opens.

    Note

    From now on, I'll spare you the repetition of these two steps. By now, you should know how to open Site Designer. So, I'll simply tell you to go to Site Designer.

    Click on the Options button on the ribbon. The Site options dialog opens:

  3. 3. In the Page width dropdown box, select 780px. This sets your web pages to be 780 pixels wide. The other width option is 100%, but I don't recommend it.

    Why 780 pixels? Why not 100%?

    Web pages that have a width of 100% adjust automatically to the resolution of a visitor's monitor. They allow you, the designer, to make the best possible use of available screen real estate. If you're designing an information portal, for example, you'll want to squeeze out every square inch of space that...