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...

Hey Office Live fans: Do you blog? Do you use Microsoft Office? Last but not least, do you want to see the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C.? If so, then we have a contest for you. To show what people can do with Office 2010, Microsoft has launched a new contest that will give two bloggers the chance to showcase their talents, and to demonstrate the power of Office 2010 to help you get your...

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...

Bing , Microsoft’s new search engine, provides another opportunity for your Web site to reach the right audience. Is your site listed there? To find out, type your URL in the Bing.com search box. If your site doesn’t come up, be sure to add it. Just go to the Bing URL submission page , type the URL of your homepage in the text box, and click Submit URL . You can also submit an XML Sitemap...

Hi everyone. I wanted to give you advance notice that on September 12 and September 19, we will be upgrading the Microsoft Office Live Small Business servers that host your website. What does this mean to you? On just one of these days, your public website will be unavailable for up to three hours. During this brief downtime, visitors to your site will see a message alerting them of the outage, and...

Some Windows Live Hotmail customers may be seeing their e-mail accounts "hijacked" by spammers, who in turn are sending e-mails that may result in you downloading a worm or virus onto your computer. Windows Live Hotmail is the e-mail service that powers Office Live Small Business e-mail accounts. These e-mails have surfaced in recent days. Once you've positively identified one of these...