Microsoft Office Live Small Business Beginner's Guide -- Table of Contents -- Microsoft Office Live Small Business -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- About Office Live Small Business -- Is Office Live Small Business right for you? -- About this book -- How to use this book -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Time for action - uploading a document -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz -- Have a go hero -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Companion Website -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started -- Important preliminary points -- Signing in -- Time for action - sign in to your Office Live Small Business account -- What just happened? -- Signing out -- Time for action - sign out of your Office Live Small Business account -- What just happened? -- Exploring the website section -- Time for action - exploring the website section of your account -- Page Manager: the site-management tool -- The starter website -- Time for action - viewing the starter website -- What just happened? -- More about Page Manager -- Time for action - viewing page properties -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - explore page properties -- Site Designer and Page Editor: the design tools -- Time for action - exploring Site Designer -- Have a go hero - explore Site Designer's ribbon -- Time for action - exploring Page Editor -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - explore Page Editor's ribbon -- Pop quiz 1.1 -- The rest of the tools: the galleries -- Have a go hero - explore the galleries -- Summary -- 2. Customizing Headers and Footers -- Choosing a title for your website -- Time for action - setting the site title -- What just happened? -- Choosing a slogan for your website -- Time for action - setting the site slogan -- What just happened?.

Have a go hero - experiment with the site title and site slogan -- Pop quiz 2.1 -- Setting the footer -- Time for action - customizing the footer -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - experiment with the footers -- Summary -- 3. Setting Design Options -- Choosing a theme for your website -- Time for action - choosing a theme -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - experiment with different themes -- Choosing a style for your website -- Time for action - choosing a style -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - experiment with different styles -- Choosing a navigation layout -- Time for action choosing a style -- What just happened? -- Choosing a color scheme for your website -- Time for action - choosing a color scheme -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - experiment with different color schemes -- Choosing a site font for your website -- Pop quiz 3.1 -- Time for action - choosing the site font -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - choose another font if you wish -- Summary -- 4. Setting Page Display Options -- Setting site options -- Time for action - opening the Site options dialog -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - experiment with different page options -- Introducing Advanced design features -- Time for action - activating Advanced design features -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - preview your site's stylesheet -- Pop quiz 4.1 -- Using Advanced design features -- Time for action - overriding the site width setting -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 5. Building Your Website's Skeleton -- Editing the home page -- Time for action - opening the Home page in Page Editor -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - experiment with Page Editor commands -- Choosing a page layout -- Time for action - changing the Layout -- What just happened? -- Customizing the page layout -- Time for action - customizing a layout.

What just happened? -- Creating a template for future use -- Time for action - creating and saving a page template -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - view template properties -- Creating content for the home page -- Have a go hero - write copy for your home page -- Building the Home page -- Time for action - add copy to the Home page -- What just happened? -- Re-creating the About Us page -- Time for action - creating a new page from a template -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - write copy for your about us page -- Re-creating the Contact Us page -- Time for action - re-creating the Contact Us page -- What just happened? -- Creating the Privacy Policy page -- Time for action - creating a new page from a template -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - write copy for your Privacy Policy page -- Building the Privacy Policy page -- Time for action - add copy to the Privacy Policy page -- What just happened? -- Deleting a page -- Time for action - deleting a web page -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 6. Building the Information Pages -- Selecting and organizing information for your site's information pages -- This book's companion site: a case study -- Step 1: Decide the purpose of the website -- Step 2: Specify potential visitors and classify them into groups -- Step 3: Wear the visitors' hats and think of questions they'd ask -- Step 4: Select questions that are worth answering -- Step 5: Classify questions into topics -- Step 6: Reword the section and topic names with phrases suitable for the website -- Step 7: Eliminate redundant information and finalize the page hierarchy -- A few more examples -- A website for children's art classes -- A website for an appliance repair service -- Have a go hero - selecting and organizing information for your website's information pages -- Creating section pages.

Time for action - creating a section page -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - creating the rest of the section pages -- Pop quiz 6.1 -- Creating topic pages -- Time for action - creating a topic page -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - creating the rest of the topic pages -- Creating content for the section pages -- Have a go hero - writing content for section pages -- Creating content for the topic pages -- Have a go hero - writing content for topic pages -- Summary -- 7. Improving the Presentation -- Introducing Page Editor's modules -- Setting up a contact form with the Contact Us module -- Time for action - creating a contact form -- What just happened? -- Adding contact information -- Time for action - adding contact information -- What just happened? -- Displaying a map and driving directions -- Time for action - creating a map and driving directions page -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero: customize the Map & directions display -- Trying out a couple of other modules -- Time for action trying out Weather and Stock modules -- What just happened? -- Creating hyperlinks -- Time for action - creating a hyperlink to the Map page -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - working with hyperlinks -- Displaying pictures -- Time for action - displaying a picture -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - working with pictures -- Presenting data in tabular format -- Time for action - creating a table -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - working with tables -- Pop quiz 7.1 -- Summary -- 8. Fine-tuning the Design -- Customizing the header -- A header with one of the built-in theme pictures -- A plain header without a logo or a picture -- Time for action - building a header without a logo or a picture -- What just happened? -- A header with a picture of your choice -- Time for action - building a header with a custom picture.

What just happened? -- A header with a logo and a picture -- Time for action - building a header with a logo and a picture -- What just happened? -- A header with a logo but no picture -- Time for action - building a header with a logo but no picture -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - experiment with the header -- Pop quiz 8.1 -- Customizing the color scheme -- Time for action - customizing the color scheme -- What just happened? -- Using a custom stylesheet -- Tweaking the navigation links -- Time for action - manipulating the stylesheet to fix the navigation -- What just happened? -- Displaying borders around pictures -- Time for action - displaying a border around pictures -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - play with styles -- Styling horizontal rules -- Time for action - styling the horizontal rules -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz 8.2 -- Summary -- 9. Venturing Beyond the Basics -- About HTML modules -- Time for action - adding an HTML module to your page -- What just happened? -- HTML 101 -- Working with paragraphs -- Working with horizontal rules -- Working with headings -- Working with hyperlinks -- Time for action - generating the markup for a hyperlink -- What just happened? -- Working with pictures -- Have a go hero - experiment with a picture's HTML markup -- Working with external content -- Have a go hero - experiment with a picture's HTML markup -- Pop quiz 9.1 -- Further customization with solutions -- Summary -- 10. Optimizing for Search Engines -- What is SEO? -- What SEO is not -- Optimizing your web pages -- Do comply with web standards -- Do avoid HTML modules -- Do avoid Adobe Flash movies when HTML would do just fine -- Do follow best practices -- Specify a meaningful title for every page -- Time for action - specifying meaningful page titles -- What just happened?.

Specify keyword and description metatags wherever possible.