Beginner's How-To: Top Five SEO Tips For Office Live Small Business Web Sites

Building a new web site with Office Live Small Business? Follow these tips to make it friendly to search engines: Use Office Live's Built-in Site Name and Site Slogan instead of creating images for them. When you do so, Office Live renders them as <h3> and <h5> tags, w... [More]

Understanding The Objects In Office Live's Business Applications

Office Live Small Business and Office Live Workspace have their roots in Microsoft's SharePoint technologies. Naturally, SharePoint lingo has creeped into Office Live's help system, documentation, and reference. The terminology can be somewhat confusing to those new to Office Liv... [More]

Fixing Site Navigation Style Inconsistencies While Hovering Over Links

Simon Witkiss wrote, a couple of months ago, that Office Live's Site Navigation Links show an underline inconsistently when you hover over them. If you've already visited the link, you don't see the underline, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Visited links don't show an und... [More]

Understanding Office Live's Reports

These days, every self-respecting hosting service includes a web analytics package of some sort. Office Live Small Business has one too. It’s called Reports. It may not be the most sophisticated package of its kind but it certainly is good enough for do-it-yourselfers and small-business owne... [More]

Please Remove The Tips At The Bottom Of The Emails Generated By Contact Us Forms!

For the last month or so, the e-mails that Office Live Small Business generates whenever someone fills out a Contact Us form have the following (or similar) tip at the bottom: You can automatically save incoming messages and customer contact information by activating your Contact Manager. Act... [More]

Get Office Live Update 1.2

Office Live Update 1.2 for Office Live Workspace is out. You can download it at Microsoft's download site. The main feature of the release is that Firefox users can work with Office Live Workspace and the multiple document upload tool.

Business Applications Vs. Workspaces

Office Live's Applications fall into two broad categories: workspaces and business applications. Workspaces are configurable storage locations for storing and sharing structured as well as unstructured information. They are web sites that you can create on the fly for a specific purpose ... [More]

Beginner's How-To: Switch Between Classic and Full Versions of Office Live Mail

Office Live Mail’s webmail client comes in two versions: Classic Version. Classic, in geek-speak, is a euphemism for simple or maimed. Whenever a new version of a program is released, the older version is called classic. That’s true with Office Live Mail too. The classic version... [More]

Beginner's How-To: Sign In and Out of Your E-mail Account

You can sign in to your e-mail account in two ways: From the Office Live Small Business Home page At the Windows Live Hotmail web site Signing In From the Office Live Small Business Home page To sign in from the home page, click the Inbox link in the E-mail tile on the home page a... [More]

Office Live's Reports or Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is, without a question, the better web analytics tool. Feature-wise, it leaves Office Live's Reports behind in the dust. It produces slick interactive reports that illuminate every imaginable statistic about traffic to your web site. Besides, it has an unbeatable price tag: fr... [More]

Understanding Office Live's Business Applications

A Business Application, in Office Live Small Business terminology, is a mini web-site. It allows you to store data as well as documents, collaborate with your co-workers and clients, and share information with them. A Business Application is a customized framework of lists, libraries, and we... [More]

What's In a Name? (aka What Office Live Small Business Is Not)

The marketing folks at Microsoft often come up with confusing names for their products. Then they change the already confusing names several times further adding to the confusion. As a result, there are several Microsoft products that sound suspiciously similar to Office Live Small Business or one... [More]

how many pages has google indexed on your site?

After you submit your site to Google you'll want to check whether Google has taken notice of your site. So you'll keep on googling for your site name until one day, most gratifyingly, it shows up in your search results. Now that the little detail is taken care of, the next question you'... [More]

What Do You Do With Office Live's Site Information Module?

I've always wondered about why the Office Live team bothered with the Site Information module. All it does is plop the header, slogan, or footer text at the location where you drop it. The header is usually your site's name which you aren't likely to change. So there's no rea... [More]

All About Cookies

The web is just not a safe place any more. People take all sorts or measures to protect themselves from online threats — firewalls, antivirus and anti-spyware software, phishing filters, popup blockers, anonymizers, and anything "anti" that I may have forgotten; you name it, people... [More]