Office Live - Create websites online

Office Live - Create websites online

No need to go through software installation steps, domain registration, hosting and uploading data to the server, these are probably the first advantages when we come to online website creation services. As mentioned above, there are many services of this type but in terms of responsiveness for users, Microsoft's OfficeLive is a name that will be named.

When you come to the website creation service of Office Live, you will be provided with a free storage space which is considered quite large for common users of 500MB. Not only that, you will quickly create a Web site without encountering any difficulties, because everyone who uses a computer will also use Microsoft Office. The website created by you from this service has a professional style that is not inferior to a website programmed in HTML. Now you can start designing your website with the online Office Live suite.

Sign up for an account

Step 1 : Go to the Web site and look to Also from OfficeLive: Get a Free Website and more, then click the Create a Free Website button.

Step 2 : In the Sign up window for Microsoft Office Live Small Business , you need to declare all information that contains an asterisk '*':

-Enter the email address in the box Your e-mail address and click Next (e-mail of gmail or yahoo also);

-Enter the password of at least 6 characters in the two boxes Type password and Retype password ; select province (city, state) in State / Province; enter the postal number at Zip / Postal Code (this number must be correct, such as New York state with this number 10001); choose a security question Secret question and answer at least five characters at Secret answer; choose alternate email for OfficeLive to send information when you forget your password at Alternate e-mail address; then click Save and continue .

-Next, you need to fill in some personal information in the section Enter your information including: First name-first name, Last name-last name, Organization name-name of organization, Type of organization -type of organization, Number of employees -the number of employees, then click Save and continue.

-Continue, enter the security code of the eight characters in the Characters box of the Match the characters in the picture box, then click Save and continue and to complete the registration process, click I accept.

-Step 3: At the last window of the registration process, you will be notified to log in to your e-mail to activate your account. Now, go to your mail to find messages subject to Action Required-Verify your account and click the Verify e-mail address button to activate the account.

Note, if you use the Windows Live Hotmail email service, you do not need to go through the above steps, just enter the email name and password into the E-mail Address.

II. Website building

Once you've activated your account, you will be provided by OfficeLive a free domain name with the address located in the upper right corner of the Get Started window. To embark on web design, click Design your site in the Get Started box.

Step 1: In the Page Manager frame to facilitate the design, select Design Site> Design site on the toolbar (or choose Edit on any page listed below). In the Microsoft Office Live Small Business Web Design Tool window, you will see a window similar to Microsoft Office 2007 but includes only Page Editor and Site Designer tabs. Now, you do not rush to start designing content for pages, but build a system of main menus (as well as drop-down menus) and interfaces so that it is really scientific, good orientation for viewers. .

Step 2: Create the menu system:
-You must create the main menu first (corresponding to each page is a page), by default, Office Live will provide four main menus About US, Contact US, Home, Site map. You can edit these menus to your liking by clicking that menu and then selecting the Page Editor tab> selecting the Advanced tab> selecting Page properties (the icon ). In the Choose page properties window, enter the page title in the Page title box as well as its title in the Navigation panel in the Navigation title box, and then click OK. Doing this is similar to other menus.

-To add a new page, select Web pages> select New page, then select one of the standard templates that Office Live provides in the Standard Tamplates box and click Next. In the Page Information frame, enter the new page name (Page title), the Web address to this page (Web address), and then click Finish.

Once you have created all the pages, you need to organize and categorize them into the main menu or the corresponding dropdown menu. Go to Page Eidtor> select Advanced> select Change page navigation order, select the menu name (page name) in the Select the page you want to move: if creating a secondary page (drop-down menu) after the main page (menu main), click the main page name in the Place page under box; If you want to move the order of pages (including the main page and the secondary page), click Move down (or Move up) and click OK.

Step 3: Create a suitable and eye-catching interface:

Creating a beautiful and user-friendly web interface is an important part of the website's professionalism. Therefore, if you have identified yourself as a website, then go to the Site Designer tab to make yourself a theme-based web interface to attract viewers.

-Site Zones: This section allows to set the title (Site Title) and the slogan (Site Slogan) of the page at Header, enter the web ownership information in the Footer text box for Footer, insert your logo on top of the page at Logo.

-Design Options: You choose the field that the web targets at the Theme, the website template only changes to the Header in Style, color scheme in Color, font in Font.

-Advanced: Some website settings: Page Width, Page Alignment, and if you don't want to show Bing search (upper search box), 'Power by Microsoft Office Live' (cluster from Microsoft in the bottom left), uncheck the box below the Display Options section.

In addition, there are some other features in the Page Editor tab to embellish the interface, such as:

-Page layouts (in the Advanced section): help set the type of 1 column or 2 columns, . for page content.

-Page background (in the Advanced section): if you have beautiful own wallpaper, you can use it as a wallpaper for the web at this feature.

Step 4: Build content:

Coming to the Page Editor tab, editing content for websites is quite easy with tools related to fonts (Font); paragraph (Paragraph); insert tables, images, links, slide shows, etc. (Insert). In particular, in the Insert section, there is a Module> HTML feature that helps people who are proficient in this language can edit and add code to increase the effect for the web.

After the design is complete, click the View button to review your work and click the Save button to save. Now, you can freely introduce to your friends, relatives, . about your own website.

The website design topic is easy to write based on the knowledge that the author has experienced and is presented in the perspective of 'amateurs'. Hopefully, with this series of articles, it will be helpful for those new to the webdesign field who can design their own web site to serve learning needs, exchange experiences, entertainment, .