Hi,
You can upload own designed web pages on your Microsoft Office Live website by activating third party design tool.
Note: If you activate third party design tool from your Microsoft Office Live account then all data of your current website (which you have designed through default designing template) will be lost but you will be able to use website/web page created through third party software on your website. However, you can take back up of your existing website or web pages and restore it in future.
You can take back up of your existing web pages or website by following steps:
1. Open www.officelive.com website and click on sign-in from right corner.
2. Enter your Microsoft Office Live ID and password.
3. Click on “Website” from top navigation pane.
4. In the Page Manager, click Design Site and then click Package Solution.
5. Enter a Name and Description, if select Advanced options, you also set a version number.
6. Click on Add Component.
7. Select website from the drop down menu.
8. Select Entire Site – Only if your site is under 10MB, otherwise it will error out. If your site is over 10MB you will have to select individual components, pages, image gallery and Site Design.
9. Click Add.
10. To identify the solution you want to package, type a name and description. Then select the components from your account to be packaged.
11. Click on Package Solutions.
12. Wait for Microsoft Office Live to Package the Solution.
13. In the Save dialog that appears, select save, give it a name save it.
Note: You can restore backup files in future by following steps mentioned below:
1. In Page Manager click Design Site, Install Solution.
2. Click Browse and locate the file.
3. Check Overwrite existing Files-if necessary.
4. Click Add Solution, once done you receive a message indicating if it was successful.
Now, you can activate third party design tool on your website by following steps mentioned below:
1. Sign in to your Microsoft Office Live account.
2. From Member Center page click on “Website” from top navigation pane.
3. Click on “Site action” on middle of page and select “Activate advanced design feature”.
4. Click on “OK” and again click on “Site action” and select “Activate third party design tools”.
5. Now, click on “Activate now” and then mark the box (I want to deactivate the Microsoft Office Live Small Business Web designer tools and delete my existing files) and click on “OK”.
Note: After activating third party design tool, you have to rename your website/web page (which you want to set as home page on your website) like default.htm and put it into web folder that has been created after activating third party design tool. While putting your web page (default.htm), a prompt message will come that “you want to overwrite this file name” then you have to select “Yes”.
Note: Follow link mentioned below for more information about third party design tool:
http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetID=HA102263821033&ns=OFLV20&lcid=1033
Regards,
Ranjeet Mishra