How to Choose design of your website and define its organization with Office Live Small Business

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Have you ever decided to create your website with Office Live Small Business. If yes, then your creation will comprise with two stages. First step, you have to define the skeleton of your site. In the second step, you need to create and fill the pages of the site.

Preliminary remark:
When you sign up for Office Live Small Business, a domain name you assigned will be provisional. If you prefer to give your site a definitive domain name, then you must leave a credit card number. It will not be charged the first year of use. If you already have a domain name, you can transfer your domain name to Microsoft Office Small Business. For more details, see FAQ Microsoft Office Live Small Business. Below are the steps that we will be discussing:

1. Your first steps with Office Live Small Business

Once you're signed up for Office Live Small Business, it is from that home page, you will be able to easily create your site.

To begin, select "create a professional website.

A few details before you begin:

The design tool has five main elements: the Site Designer, Page Editor, the Image Library, the Library and Document Manager pages. Tools of website design themselves, the Site Designer and Page Editor, open in a new window.

Images of your website are stored in the library of images and documents are stored in the Document Library.

Once your site is created, the Page Manager allows you to easily access the pages.

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2. Set the graphics on your site

Step 1 - Choose a theme:

A theme is a good starting point for planning the overall look of your site. It controls the image that appears in the header at the top of each page. In the choice of many themes for multiple sectors, you get: automotive, finance, manufacturing and real estate.

To select a theme, follow these steps:
In the Site Designer tab, click Theme. Click on the image to use in your header. It is automatically selected and placed in the header of every page of your Web site.

Step 2 - Next, apply a style:

The style controls the location of all elements in your header of the website. The elements of the header used by the chosen style is the logo, the image of the subject, and the site title and slogan.

When you select the style, the header is reconfigured accordingly. For example, in a certain style, your logo will appear on the left of the header while for another it will be on the right.

To choose a style, click Style, tab site designer.

Step 3 - Harmonize colors:

The colors are definitely an immediate visual impact. They must be adapted to the theme and logo. If the color is not in harmony with other elements, a site may give the impression of a lack of professionalism. Fortunately, you can choose or change colors easily on your site.
Office Live Small Business includes all the colors used on a web site color themes. For example, the color theme uses mostly ocean blue colors. Choose your color theme in the Site Designer tab.

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3. Customize your Site

Office Live Small Business Models offer a simple architecture which includes all items necessary to create your professional website.

The entries created by default are as follows:

• Home

• Who are we?

• Contact Us

• Sitemap

• Test product page

You can keep them as it is or modify them and then easily add new pages. Office Live Small Business offers many new items for each new page:

• create a new entry in the navigation to homepage

• create a sub-category, among the existing entries

So, get started directly with Office Live Small Business.