Ivana Taylor wrote a review of Microsoft Office Live Small Business: Beginner's Guide at smallbiztrends.com. Check it out.
I wrote an article about Office Live Small Business at itknowledgeexchange.com, as a guest author, which was published today.
Packt Publishing published my second book, Microsoft Office Live Small Business: Beginner's Guide, today.
Part of Packt’s Beginner’s Guide Series, the book offers step-by-step instructions for building a small-business web site from scratch with Office Live Small Business. It emphasizes web design fundamentals and best practices along the way. It's packed with tips, tricks, and hacks for building an effective, user-friendly, easily findable, and highly usable web site in next-to-no-time.
The book's companion web site is at www.officeliveguide.com.
UPDATE: The book's companion web site is now at http://beginnersguide.books.officelive.com.
Packt Publishing will be publishing my second book, Microsoft Office Live Small Business: Beginner's Guide, in November 2009.
Part of Packt’s Beginner’s Guide Series, the book will offer step-by-step instructions for building a small-business web site with Office Live Small Business. It will emphasizes web design fundamentals and best practices along the way.
In the book, I'll build a web site from scratch. The site, www.officeliveguide.com, will also serve as the book's companion site.
Every popular web platform has concept of themes: something you can simply add to your web site and change its look-and-feel instantly. Themes usually contain hooks to style a web site's headers, footers, and navigation elements automatically. In addition, themes contain a style sheet that applies across the site as well as a specific styles for certain commonly-found pages or elements.
Although Office Live Small Business doesn't have a theming engine, it's possible to design themes for the platform using Advanced Design Features and tables in the Business Applications database. I've played around with the idea and it seems to work pretty well. I've even ported the popular NonZero theme (which I ported to BlogEngine.Net for this web site as well, incidentally) for my own OLSB web site at acxede.com. More...