In Chapter 1: Getting Started, you'll learn the ABCs of Office Live Small Business and then go on a whirlwind tour of its site-building tools. Before calling it a day, you'll preview the starter site that Office Live Small Business creates for you to give you a head start on your project.
In Chapter 2: Customizing Headers and Footers, you'll start using the design tools you previewed in Chapter 1 to personalize your site's headers and footers. You'll customize its name and slogan, and in the bargain put your distinctive stamp on your website.
Chapter 3: Setting Design Options will help you decide the look and feel of your site. Which font should you use? What color scheme should you use? How should you lay out the site's navigation? It's quite easy to implement such important decisions with Office Live Small Business's design tools. This chapter will show you how.
Chapter 4: Setting Page Display Options will help you in deciding the structure of individual pages on your site. How wide will your web pages be? What kind of background will they have? How do you tweak design elements on your web pages? This chapter deals with these and other such questions.
By the time you're done with Chapter 5: Building Your Website's Skeleton, you'll have mastered Office Live Small Business's design tools. Have you ever seen a website that doesn't have a home page? I don't think so. No matter what business you are in, your website will need a few simple pages such as a Home page and a Contact Us page. These pages form the core around which you build the rest of the site. In this chapter, you'll build such a core. By the time you work your way through it, you'll have a four-page website—content and all.
In Chapter 6: Building the Information Page, you'll build upon the core you built in Chapter 5, and add pages that inform and educate the visitor about your products and services. You'll also learn how to work with text and images in formatting web pages.
Chapter 7: Improving the Presentation will show you how presentational aids such as tables, maps, slide shows, and hyperlinks help you present information in a more presentable and digestible format. Web pages that merely contain text and pictures are rather monotonous. Thankfully, several of these presentational aids are built right into Office Live Small Business's design tools. This chapter shows you how to leverage them.
In Chapter 8: Fine-tuning the Design, you'll continue to refine your website. You'll learn how to make your site friendlier to visitors by fine-tuning its navigation. You'll learn how to add your logo to your website in order to emphasize your brand. Finally, you'll learn how to tweak some of the settings you've chosen so far by customizing your website's stylesheet.
Chapter 9: Venturing Beyond the Basics will help you try your hand at writing your own HTML mark up to tweak your site. Office Live Small Business's built-in design tools make site-building point-and-click easy. But if you know HTML, the language of web pages, you can go where no Office Live Design Tool has gone before. Office Live Small Business is an extensible platform: it is possible to install off-the-shelf components to enhance your website. How to go about is the next skill you'll learn in this chapter. You'll install a custom FAQ component because the built-in FAQ page doesn't work as advertised.
In Chapter 10: Optimizing for Search Engines, you'll learn how to get your website noticed on Google and other search engines. You'll also get some straight talk on Search Engine Optimization that will help you understand how this much (ab)used term relates to the success of your website.
Appendix A: Signing Up: Opening a New Office Live Small Business Account covers the process of opening a new Office Live Small Business account.
Appendix B: Setting Up E-mail Accounts will teach you about setting up e-mail accounts.
Appendix C: Submitting Your Site to Search Engines teaches you about how to submit your site to search engines.
Appendix D: Backup and Restore: Recovering from Disasters elaborates on backing up and restoring data on the website.
Appendix E: Reports: Analyzing Visitor Statistics elaborates on the process of generating reports by analyzing visitor statistics.
Appendix F: Answers to Pop Quizes contains the answers to all pop quizes, chapter-wise.