Integrate Links To Common Windows Live Services With Office Live Small Business

Since Office Live Workspace is closely related to the Workspaces in Office Live Small Business's business applications, I look at it simply as free additional storage space available to create workspaces. Therefore it makes perfect sense that a link to Office Live Workspace appears in Office L... [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. Ac... [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]

Allow Us To Decide When To Backup Our Office Live Sites

UPDATE: Office Live Small Business now allows you to backup and restore your site at will. So I'm scratching this item off my wishlist.  Offce Live Small Business provides an option to restore your site if you manage to mess it up royally. The problem, however, is that the back... [More]

Multiple Document Uploader Works Only With IE

If you use Firefox to work with Office Live Workspace, you're missing out on a great feature that's available in IE only - multiple document uploader. When you bring up Office Live Workspace with IE, you'll find an additional menu item under the Add Document menu on a workspace&#... [More]

The Problem With Office Live Page Templates

Save as template is a great new advanced desing feature in the latest release of Office Live Small Business. We've been asking for templates for a long time and finally Microsoft obliged. Without a doubt, it's a great first step. The problem, however, is that the templates aren't... [More]

Google's Office Live?

  • Posted by acxede on February 28, 2008
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Google released Google Sites today. You can build intranets with it. You can store your documents centrally and share them with your colleagues or team. Sounds familiar? Yes, it does. Actually it sounds suspiciously like Office Live Small Business. I'd read previews where people were ref... [More]

The Real Reason For Adopting The New Office Live Small Business

  • Posted by acxede on February 27, 2008
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I've been playing around with the new version of Office Live Small Business for some time now. It comes with several new features. While most of them are exciting and fulfill long-asked-for requests from the user community, there's something even more exciting about this version that didn&... [More]

Use HTML Modules Wisely

  • Posted by acxede on December 23, 2007
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Page Editor's HTML module is indeed a good way to work around some of the limitations that Office Live Small Business imposes upon you. Nevertheless, what you must remember is that doing so is really a cluge. You should use html, but within limits. If you attempt to design an entire page with ... [More]

Office Live Web Sites Need More Than Two Levels Of Navigation

  • Posted by acxede on December 12, 2007
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Office Live Basics supports only two levels. You can add "1st level" pages under the "root" level. You can also add "2nd level" pages under "1st level" pages. But that is as far as you can go. You can't make the navigation hierarchy any deeper. If you ha... [More]

Office Live Mail Doesn't Work With BlackBerry

  • Posted by acxede on November 28, 2007
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UPDATE: You can now access Office Live Mail from your BlackBerry. So I'm scratching this item off my wishlist.  There are plenty of discussions on accessing Hotmail (or Windows Live Mail, or Office Live Mail) from a BlackBerry on BlackBerry forums as well as elsewhere on the Interne... [More]

Google Analytics and Office Live Small Business

While Google Analytics is a great traffic analysis application, its real strength is in its ability to track AdSense campaigns. If you discount that feature, Google Analytics is more or less like any other log analyzer. The only sites for which displaying advertisements make sense are portal... [More]

Don't Show Page Titles in Office Live Page Editor; Show Page Names

If you want to to select a page for editing in Office Live Basics, you have to click on a little control in the menu bar just above the Page Editor tab. This control displays page titles. So does the Page Manager. It is not uncommon to have multiple pages on your site with the same page title. The... [More]