Time for action — viewing the starter website

  1. Click the View Site link (or the icon next to it) on the blue toolbar that spans the middle of the page. A new window opens displaying a skeletal, but fully functional website:
    Time for action — viewing the starter website
  2. Click the links in the navigation bar to view different pages on the website.
  3. Close the preview window.

What just happened?

Office Live Small Business automatically creates a skeleton site with four sample pages when you sign up for the service. You just previewed that site.

We'll use this site to dig deeper into Office Live Small Business's features and tools. Then we'll use some of the pages to practice the common tasks that you'll perform while building and maintaining your website.

Notice that you don't see any advertisements when you view your website. Office Live Small Business is an ad-supported service but it displays advertisements only on your account management console. Therefore, you only see them when you're building your site. Visitors to your finished website will not see them. This feature alone sets Microsoft Office Live Small Business apart from other site-building tools. A free website is exactly that—no strings attached.

More about Page Manager

Let's now get back to exploring the Page Manager.

More about Page Manager

It's made up of the following components, as you can see in the partial screenshot above:

  • The table of pages at the bottom displays a row for every page on your website, along with a few options to manipulate it. It also displays the size of the page and the date when you changed it last.
  • The Page Manager toolbar that spans the page, just above the page list, houses links for performing common site-maintenance tasks. In fact, you just clicked on the View Site link to preview the starter website.
  • The Site actions tile, in the top right-hand corner, which is a pull-down menu with options for performing site-maintenance tasks that you don't need to perform all that often.
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