Comments on: Free Domain Names, So What! Stay Away From Microsoft Office Live http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/ Obsessive Compulsive Entrepreneur Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:09:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Schooley http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-83018 Schooley Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:22:29 +0000 http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-83018 Adam, you really piss me off. Offce live is not limited at all, and you were too impatient to learn how to use it. I'm going to point out 3 easy steps you could have made. 1) Edit Source Code: Site Actions > Active Advanced Design Features. Click the properties link under the page name you want to edit. Uncheck header, footer, navigation. Go back and click edit under the page name you want to edit. Click layout, choose single area. Delete everything within Zone 1. Now you have a single page to enter HTML, and to do so, you simply click Module, and choose HTML. 2) Import predesigned website (alternative for FTP): Site actions > Activate third party design tools. Adam, you really piss me off. Offce live is not limited at all, and you were too impatient to learn how to use it. I’m going to point out 3 easy steps you could have made.

1) Edit Source Code: Site Actions > Active Advanced Design Features. Click the properties link under the page name you want to edit. Uncheck header, footer, navigation. Go back and click edit under the page name you want to edit. Click layout, choose single area. Delete everything within Zone 1. Now you have a single page to enter HTML, and to do so, you simply click Module, and choose HTML.

2) Import predesigned website (alternative for FTP): Site actions > Activate third party design tools.

]]> By: Jamie http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-39656 Jamie Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:30:58 +0000 http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-39656 I use this, yer i was pretty annoyed at first with the crappy site editor they give you, i thought that ther was no way i could make a uniqe site realy. But looking at it all they make u have is their header, you can dump a load of html generated of Frontpage or whatever into the main bit and voila.. just dump all the images u need onto an unaccesable page. All good when its free :) I use this, yer i was pretty annoyed at first with the crappy site editor they give you, i thought that ther was no way i could make a uniqe site realy. But looking at it all they make u have is their header, you can dump a load of html generated of Frontpage or whatever into the main bit and voila.. just dump all the images u need onto an unaccesable page. All good when its free :)

]]> By: Keith S http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-30455 Keith S Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:55:28 +0000 http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-30455 I use MS Office Live...yes it's free and lacks some features...but it's free. I think it's great for new businesses getting off of the ground to not worry about the extra expense. Although I foresaw MS holding the free domain hostage and registered it through Godaddy and had it point to MS Office and think others should do the same. It's easy to use...if you can type, copy, and paste it can be used, but if you are looking for alot of great features (i.e. flash, javascript) go elsewhere. I use MS Office Live…yes it’s free and lacks some features…but it’s free. I think it’s great for new businesses getting off of the ground to not worry about the extra expense. Although I foresaw MS holding the free domain hostage and registered it through Godaddy and had it point to MS Office and think others should do the same. It’s easy to use…if you can type, copy, and paste it can be used, but if you are looking for alot of great features (i.e. flash, javascript) go elsewhere.

]]> By: John M. http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-7169 John M. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:57:34 +0000 http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-7169 I have an office live account and have found it very easy to use. If you are trying to build a custom website using any free program you wil not be able to. How ever what the author of this neglacted to do was ude frontpage to build the site and publish it to office live. I built my newest website in 2 hours uing front page hosted by office live. I sold 5 pools over $30,000.00 in a little over a months time with $60.00 invested in my site all of which went into yahoo pay per click advertising and a simple clean website for the crawlers. I am an amateur in web building, maybe I just got lucky. Everyone hates microsoft but they just seem to make me money. Thanks Bill Gates! Ha Ha Ha! I have an office live account and have found it very easy to use. If you are trying to build a custom website using any free program you wil not be able to. How ever what the author of this neglacted to do was ude frontpage to build the site and publish it to office live. I built my newest website in 2 hours uing front page hosted by office live. I sold 5 pools over $30,000.00 in a little over a months time with $60.00 invested in my site all of which went into yahoo pay per click advertising and a simple clean website for the crawlers. I am an amateur in web building, maybe I just got lucky. Everyone hates microsoft but they just seem to make me money. Thanks Bill Gates! Ha Ha Ha!

]]> By: Dustin http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-6217 Dustin Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:27:31 +0000 http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-6217 you people are a bunch of babies... you people are a bunch of babies…

]]> By: The SHRUBBER!!! http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-5084 The SHRUBBER!!! Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:52:52 +0000 http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-5084 FREE HAS ITS PRICE. Just when you think you have managed to get a half way presentable website using MS OfficeLive, they lose the very pages you have spent so much time on... LOSE THEM!!!! Never to be found! They state that they back up every day... ok. So you may be able to restore... "One backup copy of your site and application data is maintained at all times. You can revert to this backup copy at any time. The site http://xxxxxxxxxx.com was last backed up on 1/4/2007 6:00:15 PM." So, ok... you suck up the fact that you will lose all the data you have input over the last 12 hours and click "RESTORE"... Only, you now get this message: "Restore your site The site http://xxxxxxx.com reversion has failed on 1/5/2007 1:10:54 AM. If this error persists, please contact Customer Support." Guess what... there is not F'ing tech support number.. you have to contact them using email and IF you ever get a response, the message says CHECK YOUR DOMAIN NAME AND PASSWORD IS CORRECT!!! My God! This is Microsoft! Don't rely on the eternal angels at MS not to lose your data: the same data they are representing will be safely backed up. There is no other way. You cannot save the pages to your computer. You HAVE TO RELY ON MS NOT TO F**K IT UP... and guess what.... ARGH!!!!! FREE HAS ITS PRICE.
Just when you think you have managed to get a half way presentable website using MS OfficeLive, they lose the very pages you have spent so much time on… LOSE THEM!!!! Never to be found!

They state that they back up every day… ok. So you may be able to restore… “One backup copy of your site and application data is maintained at all times. You can revert to this backup copy at any time.

The site http://xxxxxxxxxx.com was last backed up on 1/4/2007 6:00:15 PM.”

So, ok… you suck up the fact that you will lose all the data you have input over the last 12 hours and click “RESTORE”…
Only, you now get this message:

“Restore your site
The site http://xxxxxxx.com reversion has failed on 1/5/2007 1:10:54 AM. If this error persists, please contact Customer Support.”

Guess what… there is not F’ing tech support number.. you have to contact them using email and IF you ever get a response, the message says CHECK YOUR DOMAIN NAME AND PASSWORD IS CORRECT!!!

My God! This is Microsoft! Don’t rely on the eternal angels at MS not to lose your data: the same data they are representing will be safely backed up.

There is no other way. You cannot save the pages to your computer. You HAVE TO RELY ON MS NOT TO F**K IT UP… and guess what….

ARGH!!!!!

]]> By: Chris Winfield http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-5081 Chris Winfield Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:41:39 +0000 http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-5081 "Let’s just say you’re a new budding business entrepreneur and you are all ready with the domain name of your dreams. You have huge ideas about your website and you’ve been reading about all these great things Microsoft has to offer." Well guess what - you're f*cked! Good recap Adam. “Let’s just say you’re a new budding business entrepreneur and you are all ready with the domain name of your dreams. You have huge ideas about your website and you’ve been reading about all these great things Microsoft has to offer.”

Well guess what - you’re f*cked!

Good recap Adam.

]]> By: Caydel http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-5066 Caydel Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:16:39 +0000 http://www.shandyking.com/2007/01/03/microsoft-office-live/#comment-5066 I had heard about the offer as well, and much the same as you I read their marketing material. We can all learn a lot from their marketing team, but the Office Live software is truly second rate. It constantly astounds me - they headhunt and hire some of the brightest progeramming minds in the country, and they consistently turn out sub-par software. I had heard about the offer as well, and much the same as you I read their marketing material. We can all learn a lot from their marketing team, but the Office Live software is truly second rate.

It constantly astounds me - they headhunt and hire some of the brightest progeramming minds in the country, and they consistently turn out sub-par software.

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