Create Free Website With Microsoft Office Live

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You want to perform a showcase on the Internet your business or create a personal website where you can share your interests, photos and information with the world?

With the Microsoft Office Live , you have the tools, space and a domain name. com. com or. was to quickly and easily create your website on the Internet. The icing on the cake: this is all totally free!

Microsoft offers and 500MB of storage space for your website (more than enough to create a site, post pictures, etc ...), a domain name. Com. Com or. Eu, which allows your visitors easy access to your site and 25 email accounts that you can customize from your domain name.

To make your website, no need to know about development. Design tools are available to you free of charge and are very intuitive. So many ways to quickly implement its Web site free!

What are you waiting to get started ? Just follow the below steps:

Create an Office Live account:

At first, you must create a free account Office Live, allowing you to choose the name. Here is how to do that:

• First visit the following site Microsoft Office Live
  
  
• Click on "Sign up for free.
  
  
• If you already have a Windows Live ID (for Windows Live Messenger for example), click the Connect button. Your usernames and passwords to Windows Live ID will become the registered name and password of your Microsoft Office Live. Enter your Windows Live ID, your password and click the Login button.
  
  
• If you do not have a Windows Live ID, you can create one. Enter your current email address and click the Create button.
  
  
• Choose a password and type it a second time.
  
  
• You must now enter your details. Fill out the information so requested.
  
  
• Then choose a secret question and answer that will allow you to reset your password if you forget.
  
  
• Then click the Save button and continue.
  
  
• Then enter different information about you: your name and your name. Then click the Save button and continue.
  
  
• Copy the characters then displayed on the image and click the Save button and continue.
  
  
• Finally, click on the Agree button to complete your registration.
  
  
• You then receive a validation email. Click the link in the email to activate your account.
  
  
• After a few seconds, you are redirected to your Web space.

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Create Website:

Your account has been validated, you can now work on your website.

• Go to the homepage of Office Live .
  
  
• Click the Login link at the top right.
  
  
• Enter your username and password and click the Login button.
  
  
• You're on your Office Live account.
  
  
• In the Website, click on the link design a site.
  
  
• The list of pages on your Web site appears. By default, four pages are present for a fairly simple structure. Click the Edit link next to the Home Page.
  
  
• A new window will open on the editor page. You can then customize your home page, as if you were in a word processor.

1. Customize the style of its pages:

Office Live offers a range of styles, images and colors to customize your Web pages.

• Open the Site Designer tab.
  
  
• Start by choosing the theme for decorating your site. Just click on the button theme, choose the category your site and click on a topic you like.
  
  
• The theme is immediately applied to the page.
  
  
• Pull down the Style list and then choose the style of the top banner of your site.
  
  
• Scroll Navigation and choose where you want to display the navigation between different pages of your site, top, and left for example.
  
  
• Click the Color button and select the color to use for your site.
  
  
• Finally, click the Font button and select the font used for text on your pages.
  
  
• Click the Save button to save your changes. At any time, you can see the results on your site by clicking on the View button.

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2. Edit page content:

Now that you customize the style of your website, it'll just add your content.

• Open the tab page editor.
  
  
• Click a text box and enter your text, add pictures ... as you would a normal word processor. Use various layout options for the toolbar. You can change text alignment, add a table, pictures, etc..
  
  
• Click in the title area to change your greeting.
  
  
• To change the title of the page, click the Properties command from the page of the Advanced area.
  
  
• Note that the Module tab allows you to add predefined elements in your page such as a map, a slideshow or HTML directly.
  
  
• Click the Save button to save your changes.
  
  
• At any time, you can see the results on your site by clicking on the View button.

3. Adding a page:

By default, four customizable pages are present: the Home, About Us, Contact Us and Site Map. You can change the architecture of the site and add new pages or delete them. It will do so only to make links between your pages so they are accessible from the navigation menu.

• Back at home manage your Office Live account, click on the link design a site area of the Website.
  
  
• Then click the New Page button.
  
  
• Then select the template that matches what you want to then click the Next button.
  
  
• Then give a title to your page. In the Web Address field, enter the name of the file that corresponds to your page. This name must be short and should not contain accents.
  
  
• Check the Show page in the navigation bar for this page is accessible by the navigation of your site pages.
  
  
• Scroll Select the parent. You can choose the level of your page. If your page is a main topic of your site, select Up. If the page belongs to secondary and a category already defined, select from the list.
  
  
• Finally click the Finish button.
  
  
• Your new page is created and added to the list of pages. Then follow the directions above to edit this page and customize the content you want to assign.
  
  
• Note that the page is also accessible from the navigation menu on your site.

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4. Change the site architecture:

You have created several web pages and you want to define the structure of your site: what are the main pages, sub-headings, etc. ...

• On the home page of your Office Live account, click the Manage Pages area of the Website.
  
  
• On the page that appears, click the Navigation button.
  
  
• Then use the Up and Down buttons to change the order of pages in the navigation menu.
  
  
• To change the level of a page, click it. Scroll down the page as Place: then select the parent page (above so) this page. Choose one level to set the page as a main page.
  
  
• Then click the OK button.

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Domain name:

By default, the address by which your visitors can access your Web site is of the form [name]. Web.officelive.com. You can choose a more intuitive name. en. Com or. Eu. Microsoft offers in effect renting the name (free) of your choice the first year. Thereafter, if you want to keep that name, it will cost ten euro per year.

• In the management interface for your Office Live account, click on the link Get a web address.
  
  
• In the Domain Name field, enter the address you want to use. Scroll down and select en extension you want (if other than. En). Click Check availability
  
  
• If the name is not available, choose another. Click the Confirm button to continue the registration of your domain name.
  
  
• Complete contact information, so for the filing of your domain name and click the Save button and continue.
  
  
• To prevent fraud (which can create a multitude of free domain names) and verify that you are an individual, your credit card information you have requested. Fill them and Cleck on the OK button.
  
  
• Finally, click on the Agree button, complete my order.
  
  
• Thats it , You are Done !!