When you redirect an existing domain name to Microsoft Office Live Small Business, your domain name will then point to the new Web site that you create with Office Live. Your old Web site will no longer be available at this time. You can, however, reuse individual elements from your previous Web site's content, such as graphics, images, and documents, if you saved them to your computer.

• Upload existing content from a previous Web site

• Upload your own Web site

Upload existing content from a previous Web site

Before you redirect your domain name to Office Live Small Business, be sure to save all of your existing files from your previous Web site to your computer. Then upload these files from your computer to Office Live Small Business.

Add documents to an Office Live Small Business Web page

You must add a document file to the Document Gallery before you can link to it from an Office Live Small Business Web 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 left navigation bar, click Document Gallery.
3. In the Document Gallery, on the actions bar, click Upload.
4. In the Document Uploader, click Browse to locate the file that you want to add.
5. In the Choose file dialog box, select the file that you want, and then click Open.
6. In the Document Uploader, click Add to add the file to the Document Uploader list. You can add only one file at a time to the Document Uploader list.
7. Select the check box next to each document to be added, and then click Upload.

  Notes  

• You can upload many different file types, but for security reasons, you cannot upload .exe files.
• You cannot upload files that are larger than 10 MB.
• If a message appears that tells you that there are invalid characters in the file name, consider renaming the file and uploading it again.

After you upload a file to the Document Gallery, you can create a link to it on your Web site.

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 on which you want to add the document link, click Edit. Page Editor appears.
3. In Page Editor, select the text to which you want to link the document, and then click Hyperlink.
4. In the Insert a link dialog box, under Link to, click My documents.
5. In the list of documents, click the document or file to which you want to link.
6. To have the document open in a new browser window, select the Open link in a new window check box.
7. Click OK to create the link.
8. At the top of the window, click Save.

For more information, see Link to a file from a Web page.

Add images to an Office Live Small Business Web page

You can insert images from your computer's hard drive or from the Image Gallery if you have uploaded images there.

1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site.
2. In Page Manager, locate the page that you want to add an image to, and then click Edit.
3. Place your cursor in the zone where you want to place your image.
4. In Page Editor, on the actions bar, click Image, or, right-click and then select Insert Image from the right-click menu.
5. In the Insert Image dialog box, you can insert images from your computer's hard drive or from the Image Gallery if you have uploaded images there.

   To select an image from your computer

   1. Select My computer.
   2. Click Browse for an image to locate the image on your computer's hard drive.
   3. Select the image, and then click Open.
   4. Select the Optimize my image check box if you want to optimize your image for Web site viewing.

       Note   If you select this option, the image is converted to JPG if it is not already in this format, and the JPG conversion quality level is set to 100 percent. The image is resized to a maximum of 640 pixels, maintaining its aspect ratio. These changes to the image will help it load faster on Web browsers.

   5. Click Insert image.

   To select an image you have uploaded to the Image Gallery

   1. Select My uploaded images. You can only do so if you have previously uploaded at least one image to the Image Gallery. The number of images you have uploaded there appears to the right of this option.
   2. Click the image that you want to upload, and then click Insert image. Alternately, you can double-click the image to insert it.

    Note   The My uploaded images page shows a maximum of 24 images per page. To view additional images, click the page numbers at the bottom right corner of the page.

For more information, see Add or remove an image.

After you've uploaded your files to your Office Live Small Business Web site, you can preview your site and make any changes needed until all of your pages appear exactly the way that you want them to.

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Upload your own Web site

If you'd like to use your own third-party Web design tools to upload your Web site to Office Live Small Business, see Use your own design software to create your Web site.

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