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...

If you run a small business, you know that social media marketing and online services are all the rage, but do you really know how to get started? Well, we're here to help! This month, we've launched a series of informal events in 20 cities across the United States and Canada called "Hands-On Small Business." These are gatherings of small-business owners who really want to get down...

Members of the Support team at Microsoft Office Live Small Business spend lots of time talking to you, the customer, to get a sense of the most common technical issues facing Office Live customers. These most common issues — and the solutions to resolve them — are now being captured in article form and published on the Office Live Small Business Community site . Their goal here is to share...

Editor's note: Today we are launching 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...

You may have read before on this blog about the improvements we've made based on your feedback. Just to reiterate, at Office Live Small Business, we keep a close ear to the ground to listen to what our customers have to say. We like to hear about how you're using the service, what you like about it, and how you think we could make it better. If you've ever responded to one of our surveys...

They’re the unsung heroes of our Office Live Small Business Community site. You may know some of their names, but you don’t really know who they are or why they do what they do. I’d like to introduce you to the Office Live Small Business Community Council. The 18 members are Office Live Small Business advocates and self-taught product experts who volunteer their time to help others...

We frequently get posts in our Community pages asking about how to add music to an Office Live Small Business website. People want to know how to have a cool tune start playing when a visitor arrives on their Home page. This is pretty easy to make happen, but here's something to think about: Let's say you're out driving and you pull up to a stop light. Another car then pulls to a stop in...

A key component of the new Office Live Small Business Community site is our Wiki . It's your chance to show your expertise around building and/or maintaining Office Live Small Business websites, and to share that expertise with the thousands of others who visit the community on a daily basis. Why do we have a wiki? Because we know many of you out there know our service as well as the people who...