Web site navigation functions as your Web site's table of contents. The same navigation bar appears on every page on your Web site. Customers use the links in the navigation bar to reach the different pages of your site.

When you create a Web site, plan your navigational structure in a way that will be useful for your customers. The following terms are used in describing navigational link relationships:

• Top-level links are the primary links that appear in the navigation bar on all of your Web pages.
• Parent pages are the pages linked to from your top-level links. They often serve as categories, in which case they will have associated child pages.
• Child pages are pages that are linked to from parent pages. Child pages typically contain information related to the parent page.

For example, the parent pages (and top-level links) on a spa's site are Services and Products, and the child pages under Services are Facials and Hairstyling.

For information about how to add or delete a Web page in Microsoft Office Live Small Business, see Add or delete a Web page.

  Notes  

• If you partially redirected a domain name to your Office Live Small Business account: Before you can make changes to your Web site after partial redirection, you must change the primary domain to your free Office Live Small Business domain that ends in .officelive.com. For more information, see Make changes to your Web site after partial redirection.
• When you save your changes, all modifications are published to your Web site immediately.

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• Change the location of your page navigation links

• Change the hierarchy of parent and child pages

• Change the list order of pages

• Change your default home page

• Change a page title or the navigation link text

• Remove a link from your Web site navigation

• Remove the page navigation links from an individual page

• Restore the page navigation links to an individual page

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Change the location of your page navigation links

You can display your page navigation links in one of three ways:

• Left lists all of your parent links on the left side of the page and lists child links below the parent link.
• Top & Left lists the parent links in a bar under the header and lists links to child pages on the left side of the page.
• Top lists the parent links in a bar under the header and lists links to child pages in a bar under the parent links.

1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site. Page Manager appears.
2. In Page Manager, on the actions bar, click Design site. Site Designer appears.
3. In Site Designer, click Navigation, and then, in the Navigation layouts drop-down list, click Left, Top & Left, or Top. The location is automatically applied to your pages.
4. Click outside the Navigation layouts drop-down list to close it.

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Change the hierarchy of parent and child pages

You can turn a parent page into a child page, and vice versa.

 Note   It is not possible to place a child page beneath another child page.

1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site. Page Manager appears.
2. In Page Manager, on the actions bar, click Design Site, and then, in the drop-down list, click Modify navigation.
3. In the Navigation dialog box, change your page order as follows:
1. In the left pane, select the page that you want to move.
2. On the Place page under menu, select the location where you want to place the page. Select Top level to place the page in the topmost hierarchy, or select a page title to place the page you want to move under that title.
3. Click Change parent. The new link hierarchy for that page is listed in the page order.
4. Click OK to save your changes.

For information about how to add or delete a Web page, see Add or delete a Web page.

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Change the list order of pages

1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site. Page Manager appears.
2. In Page Manager, on the actions bar, click Design Site, and then, in the drop-down list, click Modify navigation.
3. In the Navigation dialog box, change your page order as follows:
   1. In the left pane, select the name of the page that you want to move. It is automatically selected in the Page order list.
   2. Click Move up or Move down to change the page order.
4. Click OK to save your changes.

For information about how to add or delete a Web page, see Add or delete a Web page.

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Change your default home page

When you create a Web site in Office Live Small Business, your home page is automatically designated as the default page that visitors go to when they type your Web address into a browser window. The only way to use a different page as your default is to create a new page that has the same Web address and overwrite your existing home page.

To create a new default home page:

1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site. Page Manager appears.
2. In Page Manager, on the actions bar, click New page.
3. In the Create Web page dialog box, select Home from the Standard Templates list, and then click Next.
4. In the Page information area, in the Page title box, type the title for your home page.
5. In the Web address box, type default, and select the Overwrite existing page check box.
6. Click Finish.

 Caution   If you overwrite the existing page, the content on that existing page is deleted. If you want to save that content, you should copy the content into another new Web page before you overwrite the default home page.

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Change a page title or the navigation link text

When you first create a Web page, you are asked to give it a title. The page title is automatically used as your navigation title. You can change either title if you want; however, you cannot change the Web address for the page.

 Note   When you save your changes, all modifications are published to your Web site immediately.

1. On the Microsoft Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site.
2. In Page Manager, next to the page that you want to modify, click Properties.
3. In the Choose page properties dialog box, on the Page Settings tab, in the Page title box, type a new name.
4. To change the navigation link text, in the Navigation title box, type a new name.
5. Click Apply to apply the change. The Choose page properties dialog box remains open so that you can make further changes. When you have finished, click OK to save your changes, and close the dialog box.

For information about how to add or delete a Web page, see Add or delete a Web page.

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Remove a link from your Web site navigation

You can choose whether or not a link appears in the Web site navigation that appears on every page.

1. On the Microsoft Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site.
2. In Page Manager, next to the page that you want to modify, click Properties.
3. In the Choose page properties dialog box, on the Page Settings tab, clear the Show this page in the Navigation bar check box.
4. Click Apply to apply the change. The Choose page properties dialog box remains open so that you can make further changes. When you have finished, click OK to save your changes, and close the dialog box.

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Remove the page navigation links from an individual page

You can remove the page navigation links from individual pages by using the advanced design features. The advanced design features must be activated before you can perform the following procedure. To turn on the advanced design features, see Activate the advanced design features.

1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site. Page Manager appears.
2. In Page Manager, next to the page that you want to remove the page navigation links from, click Properties.
3. In the Choose page properties dialog box, next to Include, clear the Navigation check box.
4. Click Apply to save your changes and continue working in the dialog box, or click OK to save your changes and close the Choose page properties dialog box.

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Restore the page navigation links to an individual page

You can add the page navigation links back to individual pages by using the advanced design features. The advanced design features must be activated before you can perform the following procedure. To turn on the advanced design features, see Activate the advanced design features.

1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site. Page Manager appears.
2. In Page Manager, next to the page that you want to add the page navigation links to, click Properties.
3. In the Choose page properties dialog box, next to Include, select the Navigation check box.
4. Click Apply to save your changes and continue working in the dialog box, or click OK to save your changes and close the Choose page properties dialog box.

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