Having a web site is almost mandatory whether you are an individual promoting yourself, part of a company showcasing its products or services, or even a member of a band promoting its music, for instance; but unless you want to hire an expert to put your web site together, you’ll need a good deal of experience and knowledge of web technologies to make your site look professional and convincing. Microsoft Office Live provides a complete solution for creating attractive and effective web sites through a series of easy-to-use interfaces. The basic version is free, and you don’t need any coding knowledge to start making use of it.
Learn all the basic functions with Beginning Microsoft Office Live and get advice on how to improve site usability for your visitors, as well as explore more advanced topics. Your web site will soon be better designed and even more effective once you’ve mastered the more sophisticated aspects, such as sending e-mail to and from your site and adding dynamic functionality.
Create your own web site without any coding knowledge—ANYONE can use Microsoft Office Live!
Learn how to use all the standard functions.
Improve your web site—you’ll easily grasp the more advanced topics, such as improving site design and usability, e-mail, and adding dynamic functionality.
What you’ll learn
What the different parts of the Office Live family are and its capabilities
How to sign up for Office Live and get a domain for your web site
What the most important aspects of creating a web site are
How to create a new site and add pages to it
How to manage resources such as images and documents
How to improve your site’s look and feel
How to make web site easier for your visitors to use
How to make your site easier to find on the Web
How to send e-mails to and from your site
How to manage your site effectively
How to add dynamic functionality to your site using JavaScript
Who is this book for?
This book (and Office Live itself) is for anyone who wants to create a web site but doesn’t have much in the way of coding knowledge
About this product: Get your e-business started with ease and quickly boost sales and productivity with help from this hands-on guide. How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office Live explains how to harness this all-in-one service to create and maintain a dynamic online presence for your business. Learn how to set up a commerce-driven website and take advantage of free hosting, website statistics, personalized domain names, and e-mail addresses. You'll also discover how to get the most out of the project management, communications, inventory, and accounting tools available in Microsoft Office Live.
Create a professional, e-commerce website for your business
Improve communication using the e-mail and time management functions
Promote your site via search engine optimization
Create an employee workspace to share contacts, calendars, schedules, and other business applications
Schedule and manage projects
Track your assets and inventory
Make it easy for customers to find and purchase your products
Manage and store documents and sales collateral
Create and run an eBay business with Office Live
Streamline accounting and business administration tasks
Microsoft Office Live is a service that allows individuals, small businesses, and organizations to create Web sites, share documents, and have a shared storage area on the Web
Explains how to create a Web site; share documents, contact lists, project plans, and calendars; send or receive e-mails using Live Mail; and allow customers, employees, and vendors access to data based on specific security restrictions
Discusses establishing security levels, sharing documents, defining and managing projects, tracking company assets, using the Contact Manager, using marketing campaigns, and working with client workspaces
Office Live services can be used independently but they also integrate well with Microsoft Office programs used regularly by more than 400 million people around the world, including Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Small Business Edition
About this product: Learn how to use Microsoft Office Live and take your business online! In this tutorial, well-known author and columnist Katherine Murray gives you an insider s look at the features and capabilities of Microsoft Office Live offerings: Office Live Basics, Office Live Collaboration, and Office Live Essentials. Small businesses with fewer than 10 employees finally have the online capabilities they need to more easily and more affordably establish an online presence, automate key business tasks, and collaborate. With this practical tutorial, you ll discover how to create, manage, and track statistics for your business Web site; manage and store critical business information; and improve business processes. You ll even learn how to stay in touch from synching up with Office Live Mail, to using on-demand business applications to collaborate and accomplish tasks from anywhere in the world with Internet access. Part inspiration and part how-to, this guide offers real-world techniques you can use to hit the ground running with Microsoft Office Live!
Offers an expert overview and exclusive insights from a well-known author, with input from the Microsoft Office Live product group
Includes practical tutorials, case studies, and real-world techniques for managing your small business
Helps you choose the offerings that are right for your business
Shows you how to take your business online create and manage a Web site, market your site, and track site statistics
Office Live provides a centralized online portal for businesses to help bring people, key-business data, business applications, and devices together in one area. It is designed for small and growing companies to use the Internet to improve their businesses, including improving in-house communications, extending communications with customers and clients, tracking website usage, providing a centralized server for sharing documents, and tracking calendar events.
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If you are part of a small and growing business and need a powerful Web service, Office Live is the perfect solution for you. Most small businesses don't have dedicated IT staff to rely on, and Office Live allows you to host your website and have the flexibility to customize it without a large learning curve or computing downtime.
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Office Live offers the following key business capabilities and functions:
Website domain name
Website builder tools, including the Site Designer, Page Editor, and Image Gallery
Email accounts and management
Dashboards, which provide customized views of specific data such as the prebuilt company and personal calendars
Collaboration tools
Business applications, including more than 20 tools such as project management and customer contact management tools
Site reports
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Using Office Live, your company can set up a website that allows employees and customers to perform daily tasks. For instance, employees can access company email from anywhere-onsite, offsite, at a client's office, or at home-using the Office Live member area.
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Table of Contents
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Section 1-------- Introduction to Office Live
Section 2-------- Create a Public Website
Section 3-------- Using Office Live Business Applications
Section 4-------- Store and Share Information Using Office Live Shared Sites
Section 5-------- Manage Communications Using Office Live
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