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Display a list on your public Web site

In Business Applications in Microsoft Office Live Small Business, you can create lists where you can store information you need to reference often as part of your business day. You can also choose to display information from these lists on your public Web site, so visitors can see it. When you change information in the list, the information displayed on your public Web site is updated automatically.

For example, if a restaurant wants to post its daily specials to customers online, the restaurant owner can create a custom list named Daily Specials in Business Applications and publish the list to the restaurant's Web site. When the owner updates the Daily Specials list in Business Applications, the list automatically updates on the Web site where customers can see it, too.

There are two ways to publish a list to your public Web site. In Business Applications, go to the Sharing sidebar and select Lists. Or, for more flexibility, go to Web designer and add a List Publisher module, which lets you choose your own template or add multiple modules to your page.

What do you want to do?

Publish a list to your public Web site using the Sharing sidebar

  1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click More, and then click Business Applications or Contact Manager.
  2. On the left navigation bar, click the application that contains the list that you want to publish. Then click the name of the specific list that you want.
  3. In the Sharing sidebar, click Lists, and then click Publish a list.
  4. In the dialog box that opens, create a name that will appear at the top of your new Web page, and create the Web address (URL) that will appear in the address bar of the new Web page. Then click Publish list. For more information about creating page names and Web addresses, see: Add or delete a Web page.
  5. The dialog box closes. Web designer automatically opens in a new browser window and your new Web page appears. Instructional text appears at the top of the page. Right-click the instructional text, and then click Properties.
  6. Select the fields that you want to include on your public Web page, reorder them as you want by using the Move up and Move down buttons, and then choose a layout.
  7. Choose whether you want the list to be available to others as an RSS feed. Feeds are a great way to expand your Web site's audience by letting visitors receive automatic updates any time you change your list.
  8. Click OK. Your list appears on its own Web page in the layout that you selected.

 Note   You can customize your list module using the advanced Web site design features. To learn about the list publisher module advanced design features, see Customize a list on a Web page using the advanced design features.

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Publish a list to your public Web site by adding a List Publisher module

  1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site.
  2. In Page Manager, next to the name of the Web page on which you want to publish the list, click Edit.
  3. In the Page Editor toolbar, click Module, and then click List publisher.
  4. From the Application drop-down list, select the name of the application where the list is stored. From the List drop-down list, select the name of the list that you want to display.
  5. Select the check boxes for the fields that you want to include on your public Web page, reorder them as you want by using the Move up and Move down buttons, and then choose a layout.
  6. Choose whether you want the list to be available to others as an RSS feed. Feeds are a great way to expand your Web site's audience by letting visitors receive automatic updates any time you change your list.
  7. Click OK. Your module appears on the page. Drag the module to the place on the page where you want it to display.
  8. Click Save. Your list appears on the Web page in the layout that you selected.

 Note   You can customize your list module using the advanced Web site design features. To learn about the advanced design features, see the Introduction to the advanced design features.

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Remove a list from your public Web site

  1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site.
  2. In Page Manager, next to the name of the Web page that contains your list, click Edit.
  3. In Page Editor, right-click anywhere in the module that you want to remove, and then click Delete.

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