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 Ignored those emails about your OL domain expiring or didn't see them? Worried that your web site is also gone? Don't worry about the site. Domains expire but web site accounts don't. It's alive and well and living under a free "placeholder" domain name. And if you want to reunite it with your expired domain, here's what you do:
- If you have access to your account, check under domain manager/learn how to save your info for the DOMAIN REGISTRATION KEY. (Only the OWNER-original account id has access).
- If your log in id was deleted with your domain, learn how to change your id.
- If the DRK is not there, contact support and they will give it to you
- Go to http://www.melbourneit.com.au/
- Create an account there and use the DRK to gain access to management of your domain.
- Follow the instructions to pay for the renewal ($35 pa) or transfer it to another host.
- If you're renewing it, you can then complete the redirection process back to the OL servers.
Your domain based email accounts will be gone, but at least you can get your domain back and create new ones. |
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Has your domain nearly expired and with it your owner access to your OL account? Many formerly free domains will expire over the next few months-and with them so will many custom email addresses. If you used a custom email address linked to your domain as your Live ID when you set up your account (ie me@mysite.com), AS EARLY AS 8 DAYS PRIOR TO EXPIRATION you will see a scary "your id is invalid" message when you attempt to log in and no indication of why. If you set up a secondary user, you will be able to log in to your account but won't have access to owner features.
You may have read in the community forum that you CAN'T change your Live ID and while normally that might be true, the news is if this has happened to you, it's easy to change your Live ID and restore complete access to your account.
Go to http://account.live.com. Enter your old id/password. You will be told your id is invalid and asked if you want to set a new id. Follow the prompts to set up the new id. After verifying your new id via an emailed link, you will now be able to log in to your account with owner privileges!
Any other email address linked to your domain (ie me@mysite.com), as Live ID's, will also need to be changed in the same way.
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One application-many uses.....Beta Blogger can be used for much more than just a blog on your site. If you've taken a look around this site, you've seen a live example of the application being used to build an entire site, a process which would have been much more arduous and time consuming without Beta Blogger's built in ability to organize content and present it in a consistent way. If you've had any experience creating an Office Live site, you know it's not that easy to position tables, images and text and get a polished, professional look. And having done it once, updating your site and keeping it fresh which is a critical component in attracting visitors, can be a chore. Beta Blogger will make all of that easier for you-no matter what the content. You can install multiple instances of Beta Blogger on one site-use one for a blog, one for an online store, one to showcase your artistic work-the possibilities are endless. So here are a few thoughts and examples on other ways in which Beta Blogger can be put to work to help you with your site:
ecommerce:create a professional looking store
- use the category feature to create product categories
- add each product to a category as a separate "blog" post
- you can even add Paypal buttons within the post with a little javascript
- instead of blog navigation, your product category nav will automatically appear on your pages
- include special deals in the user content side columns
- number of products is only limited by the 50mB storage capacity.
SEE A DEMO ONLINE STORE HERE!
Photographer/artist:create an online gallery of your work
- use the categories to organize your work into "collections"
- post individual pieces or groups of images in a "blog" format
- add interest by varying the presentation with slideshows and different image enlargement techniques
- encourage interaction with the commenting feature
SEE A DEMO GALLERY HERE!
Musician/performers: create a showcase for your talents
- create categories for upcoming gigs, bios, photos etc
- post relevant info in blog posts within those categories.
- use one category as a blog about your self or group to encourage interactivity.
Schools/not for profits:create a resource center for your organization
- organize categories by subject and give teachers/staff access to update homework projects etc themselves
- highlight events/fundraisers/achievements in "blog" posts
- include announcements in the user content side columns
- engage your audience by posting images to celebrate sporting/academic achievements
Think outside the blog! Fundamentally, a blog is just a way of organizing website content. Think of Beta Blogger as a content management system for your site. You can create multiple applications with one copy of Beta Blogger (on one site)-and use each one for a different purpose. (Our "Try It Yourself" demo is actually running off a separate installation of Beta Blogger on this site.) As the demos illustrate, pretty much any content can divided up into chunks like blog posts. Beta Blogger can render it into an effective, organized and professional looking presentation on YOUR site. Don't let Office Live's page editor restrict your imagination-Beta Blogger can help you build the site you want! Back to top |
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Office Live Small Business has a number of limitations which even Beta Blogger can't overcome. Here are some of the things Beta Blogger CAN'T do:
Beta Blogger can't:
CHANGE THE 50MB STORAGE CAPACITY of business applications, so if you want to blog 50 times a week or use a lot of other applications, Beta Blogger is probably not going to work for you.
At $4.95 a month for 1gB, extra storage isn't cheap.......
SUPPORT ENDLESS BLOGGING WITH COMMENTS. The 50mB storage limit necessitates a 60 post cap on the number of posts with comments that can be supported and a "revolving" set up-where newer posts replace older posts. This assures that your 60 most recent posts will always show and older posts will still be visible on the "earlier entries" page. This page looks like part of the blog but doesn't use up any of the storage capacity. If you want a fuller explanation of how this works, GO HERE>>>> So if you feel you need an onsite commenting feature on more than your 60 most recent posts, Beta Blogger is probably not for you.
CREATE UNLIMITED MONTHLY PAGES. Without dynamic page creation capability, you're limited to 12 monthly pages. If you start rewriting posts after the first year, the current month will contain a mix of current and prior year posts. This is a simple trade off - we didn't feel having a comprehensive monthly index was worth the added complexity, unwieldiness and the loss of storage space for your blog entries that unlimited monthly pages would cause.
BE INSTALLED ON A NON US OL ACCOUNT - YET....though if you are interested we can probably accommodate you within a few weeks.
FLAWS IN COMMENTING SYSTEM: We can't fix 2 problems in the commenting system. When you open a comments box under a post:
1/. the browser jumps to the top of the page and you have to scroll back down to the comments box.
2/. the back button is disabled..
Both are a result of the script we use to resize the iframes the comments boxes open in. The undesirable alternative would be to have the boxes open all the time which could lead to very long pages.
Conclusion
Even with the above shortcomings, we still feel Beta Blogger is the best (perhaps only) option if you want a nice looking, seo friendly blog on your site.
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