Can I change a page address?
No. You can however create a template of the page you want to change address of. Then create a new page from the template you saved with the page address you want. You will need to have activate Advanced Design Features to save page as template.
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Can I Place Ads on My Site?
Yes, as long as code can be inserted into Office Live, you place ads on your site. There are some tricks to getting some of the codes to work in Office Live. You can find some information on how to insert Google Adsense here:
http://solutionsforofficelive.com/googleadsense.aspx
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Can I sign up for a Second Site?
Yes, but you must another WLID (Windows Live ID or Email Address such as hotmail) to sign up for a second account.
Adding the domain within your current will only redirect that domain to your current website!
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Can I use My Own Website Design Software?
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Yes, you can upload PDF documents to the Office Live Document Gallery. Go to Website > Document Gallery. To link to, use the Hyperlink tool in the Page Editor and select My Documents, which will list all the files in the Office Live Document Gallery.
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To cancel your account, Login in with the Owner Account (the account you used to setup your site), then go to More >> Account Management, on the list at the bottom is a link to Cancel your site.
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Does Office Live Offer FTP?
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Here are some suggestions that you should try first, note most of the instructions apply to Internet Explorer:
- Clear Temporary Internet Files (any browser). In IE its under Tools > Internet Options > Delete.
- Clear Cookies (any browser). In IE its under Tools > Internet Options > Delete.
- Check the all the settings are default in Internet Explorer, under the Security, Privacy and Advanced Tabs. In IE its under Tools > Internet Options.
- Sign Out of all accounts, Close your browser window (all browser windows!) and reopen and Sign in again (any browser).
- In Internet Explorer, go to Advanced Tab and Reset Internet Explorer.
- Restart the Computer (its worth a try).
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How do I edit content outside of a zone?
You cannot. However if it just happened, you can try undoing your last action such as removing some text or a module. If that doesn't work you will have to overwrite the page.
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Start by logging in (Sign-in - top right corner) at
http://smallbusiness.officelive.com, your login will be the email address you used to sign up. Once logged in click Website along the top, this will take you to the Page Manager. From there you can click Design Site and select either the Design Site or Page Editor, this will open the Site Designer/Editor, you can also click Edit next to the pages listed in the Page Manager.
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How Do I Publish My Site?
You do not have to, as soon as you sign up your site is live, or if purchase a custom domain it will be live with 24-72 hours. When you click save in the Office Live Site Designer, you changes will go live.
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(as of 7/16/2009)
Signing up for an Office Live website is completely free and does not require a credit card (previously did). Included are some of the following:
- Free forth level domain (mydomain.web.officelive.com).
- Hosting, no known bandwidth limit and 500MB of storage space.
- Business Applications, comes with 50MB of space.
- Contact Manager.
- 100 email accounts, with 5GB per account (powered by Hotmail/Live Mail).
- 5 users.
Additional paid services:
- Custom Domain: mydomain.com -$14.95/year
- Premium Email (no ads): -$19.95/year
- Additional Users:
| 10 users |
$14.95/month |
| 25 users |
$34.95/month |
| 50 users |
$64.95/month |
| 75 users |
$84.95/month |
- Additional Space:
| 1GB |
$4.95/month |
| 2GB |
$8.95/month |
| 5GB |
$14.95/month |
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The Slideshow Module on my Site Loads Slowly?
There are several reasons that can cause this, 1. You are using larger images, generally you should use images larger than 640x480 or 150KB in size. 2. You have a large number of images and while loading the slideshow module displays image missing.
The Office Live slideshow is also a problem causer, 1. It can pages to freeze and not display, especially the home page; 2. Cause editing problems, not able to saves pages, ect. 3. It throws off the alignment on the page and cause the pages to be 2-3 times wider and longer than what they are supposed to be.
Recommendations: If you do decide to use the Office Live slideshow module, which I would recommend against, make sure you are images have a small file size, this way they will load quicker and don't use images that are larger than your page, a good maximum size is 640x480, it seems the larger the images the more the alignment is thrown off.
There are several good free alternatives:
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What Does Office Live Support?
Office Live does not allow the use of any server side scripting languages such as PHP, MYSQL ect. The Site Designer will allow custom HTML, though you can't actually edit the HTML for your site; JavaScript, Flash objects, ect. And if you need some basic database features, the business applications will allow you to collect and publish to your website.
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