Build Your Own Theme In Site Designer

Site Designer now has an option to create your own theme. Pull down the Themes menu and you'll see the new option right at the top, as shown in the figure below: Just click New... and upload your custome image. Then when you choose a custom image from your theme, it will appear in... [More]

Customize Your Office Live Web Site's Styles with Acxede's StyleBuilder

Don't want the hassles of monkeying around with Office Live Small Business's style sheet? Try Acxede's StyleBuilder. StyleBuilder lets you select new attributes for a few common classes and generates CSS that you can simply cut and paste in your web site's CSS editor. P... [More]

Publish Business Data To Your Office Live Web Site With The List Publisher Module

Until the enhancements to Office Live Small Business were unveiled last month, most of you've been building static web sites. Only Office Live Premium subscribers could add dynamic content to their web sites. With the new release, that feature is now available to everyone. If you're ... [More]

Office Live Advanced Design Features Tutorial - Part 1: Activating The Features

Very simply put, Advanced Design Features let you customize the headers, footers, and navigation bar of your web site. You also get to create your own page templates and manipulate your site's CSS. Many of you have been very vocal about the inability to customize these features in the past and... [More]

Office Live Advanced Design Features Tutorial - Part 2: An Overview Of The Features

The advanced features are spread out all over the Web Design Tool. Let's take a quick tour and identify them so that you'll have an easier time using them. We'll explore each feature in detail in the subsequent parts of this tutorial. You've already seen the first advanced f... [More]

Advanced Design Features Tutorial Part 3 - Two Ways of Customizing Headers and Footers

The new advanced design features let you customize, among other things, headers and footers of your web site in several ways. But it isn't all that obvious how the whole thing works. So here's the skinny on it. You can customize headers and footers in two ways: By manipulating... [More]

All The HTML You'll Ever Need To Build a Web Site With Office Live - Part 1: Introduction

Office Live Small Business's Web Design Tools lets you build web sites simply by choosing options on its menus; you don't really have to know anything about  how web pages work. But if you want to customize the look and feel a little bit, you've no option but to dabble in Hypertex... [More]

All The HTML You'll Ever Need To Build a Web Site With Office Live - Part 2: Adding an HTML Module

Adding HTML markup to your pages is very easy with Office Live. But you can't just open up Page Editor and start typing your markup. You must add an HMTL module to your page and then add the markup to the moudule . To do so, take these steps: Open the page web page you want to add HTML ... [More]

All The HTML You'll Ever Need To Build a Web Site With Office Live - Part 3: HTML Basics

Contrary to what many people believe, HTML is not a programming language – it’s a markup language. It doesn’t contain instructions for telling a computer what to do. It only has instructions to tell a browser how to format and decorate content. Typically, you enclose the co... [More]

All The HTML You'll Ever Need To Build a Web Site With Office Live - Part 4: Decorating Text

The primary HTML tag for decorating text on your web pages is the <font> tag. As its name suggests, the tag controls the fonts in your content. It once ruled HTML markup. These days, however, the trend is to use Cascaded Style Sheets (CSS) instead. If CSS sounds like a military department to... [More]

All The HTML You'll Ever Need To Build a Web Site With Office Live Part 5: Introducing Breaks

There are three basic ways of introducing breaks on your web pages: line breaks, paragraph breaks, and horizontal rules. A line break causes the subsequent text to start on the next line. But simply typing the text on a new line in the HTML module won’t make it appear on a new line. Yo... [More]

All The HTML You'll Ever Need To Build a Web Site With Office Live - Part 6: Working With Headers

Headings are an important part of text. Books, for example, use headings with varying importance. The more important a heading, the bigger its font size. This scheme makes it easy for readers to quickly grasp the scope of topics and sub-topics within the text. HTML uses a similar scheme. The... [More]

All The HTML You'll Ever Need To Build a Web Site With Office Live - Part 7: Linking Documents

The text on web pages is called hypertext (and hence the name HTML) because it usually has embedded links. Linking web pages together is an inherrent and important part of HTML. The HTML tag for adding links to web pages is the <a>, or the anchor tag. You could enclose text on your pag... [More]

All The HTML You'll Ever Need To Build a Web Site With Office Live - Part 8: Working With Images

The other day, I opened my daughter's math textbook and I saw a picture. A picture! In a math text book!! In full color, no less!!! In my childhood, math textbooks were the primary legal means of torturing innocent little children. They were printed in the tiniest fonts possible and gene... [More]

All The HTML You'll Ever Need To Build a Web Site With Office Live - Part 9: Adding An IFRAME

An IFRAME is like a window embedded in your page in which you can show another Web page. You can use IFRAMEs on a web page for "pulling in" content from other web pages. Here is how to add one to your pages: Add an HTML module to your page Right-click anywhere in the modu... [More]