Increase visual interest with a slide show

Adding images to your Web site will make it more attractive to visitors. A great way to organize many of those images, particularly if they are related, is to put them into a slide show. For example, you might have a slide show that contains pictures of the products that your company sells, and then site visitors can watch the slide show to help them decide exactly which product they want to buy.

Slide shows are organized into albums, each of which can contain 50 images. You can add as many albums to your site as you want.

 Note   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.

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• Create an album

• Edit or delete an album

• Resize or wrap text around an album

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Create an album

To add an image to a slide show, you must first add the image to your Image Gallery. For information about using the Image Gallery, see Using pictures on your Web site.

1. Sign in to Microsoft Office Live Small Business. On the Home page, at the top, click Web Site.
2. In the list of Web pages on your site, click Edit next to the page where you want to add the images.
3. Place your cursor where you want to add the slide show.
4. Click Module, and then click Slideshow. The Slide show module appears.

   

5. Do one or more of the following:
   • In Album name, type the name that you want to appear at the top of the slide show on your Web page.
   • In Slide interval, select how long you want each image to be displayed.
   • By default, controls appear at the bottom of the slide show to allow site visitors to control the speed of the slide show. If you don't want visitors to have this control, clear the Show slide show controls check box.
6. In the Image Gallery, click an image that you want to include in the slide show, and then click Add. Repeat this step for each image that you want to appear in the slide show. You can also select multiple images at once by holding down the CTRL key while you click images.

    Note   To add images to the Image Gallery from your computer, click Find more images. For more information about uploading images from your computer, see Using pictures on your Web site.

7. To change the order of images in your slide show, rearrange the images in the slide show album by dragging them. To remove an image from the slide show album, move the pointer over the image and click the X in the corner.
8. Click Finish, and then click Save at the top of the Page Editor to save your slide show.

To view your slide show, click View at the top of the window.

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Edit or delete an album

You can easily add or remove images in an existing slide show, or change other settings.

1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site.
2. In the list of Web pages on your site, click Edit next to the page that contains the slide show.
3. Do one of the following:
   • To edit the slide show, right-click the slide show, click Properties, make the changes that you want, and then click Finish.
   • To delete the album, right-click the slide show, and then click Delete.
4. Click Save at the top of the Page Editor to save your changes.

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Resize or wrap text around an album

Another way to give your site a polished look is to adjust the size of the frame that contains the slide show, and then to set the way that text wraps around it.

1. On the Office Live Small Business Home page, at the top, click Web Site.
2. In the list of Web pages on your site, click Edit next to the page that contains the slide show.
3. To resize the frame that contains the slide show, click the anchor in the bottom right of the slide show, and then drag it until it is the size that you want.
4. To choose a text wrapping option, right-click the slide show, and then select either Float Left, Float Right, or No Text Wrapping.

It doesn't take a degree in Web site design to achieve an attractive and professional-looking site. Little touches like adding a slide show can make a significant impression on visitors to your site.

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