Hi everyone. I wanted to provide you with advance notice that we are planning for a brief downtime on the Office Live Small Business and Office Live Workspace Community sites on Sunday, Nov. 15. The downtime will last only 30 minutes, and is scheduled to happen between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. Pacific time. The downtime is occurring in order to perform hardware upgrades to the servers for our Community sites...

Editor's note: This post continues a series of blog posts spotlighting Office Live Small Business Web sites for their design quality. These posts are written by design expert Sara Richardson-McCreery, creative director and founder of Spikes Like LLC near Washington, D.C., and a frequent contributor to Office Live Small Business. Richardson-McCreery will post regularly here about Office Live sites...