The two primary tools for designing your website with Office Live Small Business are Site Designer and Page Editor. You just got a bird's eye view of each. To recap:
Although you're not quite ready to be a professional web designer just yet, you should now have a pretty good idea of what's involved in building a website using Office Live Small Business.
Open up Page Editor and try the options available on its ribbon. That should give you a general idea of the range of page-design options available to you.
Some of them will be Greek to you. Fear not. We'll figure them out as we progress.
When you're done, return to the Page Manager.
Hint: Look carefully at the Page Manager's page list.
Hint: Look for a link or a button in the top half of the Page Editor window.
In addition to the Page Manager, the Site Designer, and the Page Editor, Office Live Small Business has three additional tools: Image Gallery, Document Gallery, and Template Gallery. You can access them by clicking on the links in the navigation pane on Page Manager's left-hand side, as shown in the following screenshot:
The Image Gallery contains a set of tools for editing and uploading pictures to your website. We'll see the precise mechanics of doing so in Chapter 7. For now, just remember that any picture that appears on your website will reside here.
The Document Gallery contains tools to upload downloadable documents and other special purpose files to your website. Again, we'll see how to do this in Chapter 7. At this point, it's sufficient to remember that downloadable documents such as brochures and price lists belong in the Document Gallery.
The Template Gallery is a tool to manage web page templates. Templates are boilerplate designs for web pages. Office Live Small Business provides a selection of professionally-designed templates right out of the box. But you can also build custom templates of your own design. We'll see how to build them and store them in the Template gallery in Chapter 5.
The fourth link, Reports, leads you to a set of web analytics tools. Web analytics tools analyze the traffic to your website. They help you understand who's visiting your site and why. But they don't play a role in the building of the website, per se.
Go back to the Page Manager and click on each of the links in the left navigation pane, in turn, to briefly visit the sections that they lead to. Notice that the first three sections are empty and have the same links in their left navigation panes as the Page Manager. The Reports section, on the other hand, displays some content and has a different set of links.
To return to the Page Manager from the Image Gallery, for example, you can simply click the Web Site link at the top of the left navigation pane, but to return to Page Manager from Reports, you'll have to click the Web Site link in the site navigation bar.
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