Comments on: Microsoft Office Live – Free Website Tool Review

By: weBBrewer

weBBrewer — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:08:00 +0000

I’ve been using MS Office Live Small Business since 2006 when the domains were
“free forever”. That changed to the “free for a year” promo mentioned above and eventually the free offer was removed completely. Now it’s US$14.95 a year for a domain. The real secret sauce of OLSB is the business applications function-which allows you to do things most free site hosting services don’t offer.
If anyone’s interested we’ve developed a blogging app for OLSB sites based on the Sharepoint bus apps. It’s the only blog for OLSB that resembles a real blog.

By: Miami Web Design

Miami Web Design — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:17:19 +0000

My only hope is that Microsoft will explained the tools to include survey applications and maybe discussion forums. Excluding that, dead easy to use and a lot of fun.

By: abudhabinannies

abudhabinannies — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:43:08 +0000

Microsoft Office Live really great tool We built our company web site in couple of hours

By: dona

dona — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:48:50 +0000

i set up this website(www.buildersnorthnj.com)
through http://www.officlive.com for free,, i only paid for the domain name.
i heard that if hosting is free then i would not get traffic to my website!!!!!! is this true?
i need to know becuase i have to build a new one and i am confused if should pay for hosting through another company.
Thanx
Dona

By: Theresa

Theresa — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:57:37 +0000

I have not taken the leap of working with Microsoft Office Live Web Design yet. My question: can attach Java applets behind this web page? I am a teacher & wanting to combine web design with Java code. Please make recommendations if you can… thanks.

Of course it all has to be free…..

By: MelC

MelC — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:48:25 +0000

@Neki

1 – Correct, there are some instructions detailed here : http://ask.officelive.com/smallbusiness/qna/p/5205/15273.aspx#15273

2 – No

3 – It’s ads free

4 – http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/default.mspx

Also recommend reviewing http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/en-GB/FAQ and http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/Legal?cloc=en-gb&lc=en-gb

By: Neki

Neki — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:39:45 +0000

If you use office live for their free one year website service…

(1) Is your domain name your to keep if you choose to transfer your domain name after the first year to another company or host?

(2) Are you charged hidden fees to transfer host or name after the free period is over?

(3) Free hosting usually means that sponsors have the right to post ads on your page and may even have the rights to your web content, is this true. What can you tell me about the ads or is it ads free?

(4) What is the privacy policy and where can I read on the contractual guidelines or limitations?

By: MelC

MelC — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:01:25 +0000

@Paul – you can find details on surveys here: http://ask.officelive.com/smallbusiness/wiki/support/collect-customer-information-through-a-web-page.aspx and check this out too http://solutionsforofficelive.com/bravenetguestbook.aspx

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:17:33 +0000

I love this Microsoft office web set up, I have set up three sites. One for research I am undertaking, one for my small business and the last for a social club I am part of. Its really easy to use.

My only hope is that microsoft will expained the tools to include survey applications and maybe discussion forums. Excluding that, dead easy to use and a lot of fun.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:51:13 +0000

Hey.. I’m actually impressed that this works quite well cross browser, or at least Firefox and Safari. Certainly an improvement from previous attempts Microsoft have made towards creating websites quickly.