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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

Customizing the header


Four design elements determine the look and feel of your site's header: logo, theme, style, and color scheme. When you set your site's design options back in Chapter 2, I advised you to tackle the logo later. But you did choose one of the available themes. You also chose a style that determines the layout of the header and a color scheme.

The extent to which you can control each of these four elements varies. At one end of the spectrum is the style. All you can do with it, is pick one of the available ones. The color scheme lies at the other end of the spectrum; you can customize it to your heart's content. The logo and the theme picture lie somewhere in the middle.

Recall from Chapter 2 that your site's theme is simply the picture that appears in its header. You just chose one of the many available pictures when you set the theme in Site Designer. You'll be happy to know that you're not limited to the pictures that Office Live Small Business supplies; you can supply...