Beta Blogger
Beta Blogger is a custom blogging application designed for Office Live websites. It uses the standard components of a free Office Live account to create an seo friendly, professional looking blog that anyone can install and use-no expertise or coding skills required.
Easy install-entire app bundled in one .olp file, installs as a solution in seconds.
Quick set up-you can be blogging in about 15 minutes.
Pre defined pages-won't affect your site's header or navigation.
Simple to use-familiar form based interface with line by line instructions.
Compatible with any standard OL site.
Modular design will blend in with your existing site-or use it to create an entire site.
Enter text, images or html and Beta Blogger will give you a consistent format everytime.
Includes capacity for 60 posts with user moderated comments
Visitors can read/leave comments right on your site-you can delete.
Integrates existing Live Spaces blog for unlimited "earlier" posts
SEO friendly-search engines will see your entire blog on your site
User content zones allow you to add affiliate ads or your own content.
Customizable-1 css file controls blog styling
Genesis of Beta Blogger
Beta Blogger started out as a simple project to create a personal blog using components available in any Office Live account. Business applications provides a form to enter posts and the ability to publish data on web pages in a variety of ways. so the first challenge was to structure business applications modules to represent blog posts and navigation elements.
During that process, we realized that with the addition of a commenting feature and some custom javascript, we could create a more full featured blogging application. All we had to do was join a lot of dots....a lot of dots!
Our first effort looked like this
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Much dot-joining later. we ironed out the many issues we came across and eventually got it to work as it does on this site.
Along the way, we discovered Beta Blogger can do more than just add a good looking blog to your site. Think of it as a tool that can be used
to publish any content entered in the business applications area on a web page. You can install multiple instances of the application on your site and use them all for different purposes. We used a 2nd installation of the application on this site for our demonstrations of the Beta Blogger
online store, the
photo/art gallery, and the
"try it yourself" page. There are many other ways Beta Blogger can be used to enhance the appeal of YOUR site.
Get Beta Blogger now and maximize the potential of ALL that Office Live has to offer!
This site
This site is a practical, working example of the functionality of Beta Blogger. We felt the best way to show off the application (and to thoroughly test it) was to actually use it to build a site. We customized certain aspects of the site but basically everything you see here was entered into the application via Beta Blogger's blog post form.
The site was up and running in Jan of 2010 and was supposed to be finished in Feb. But the experience of building an entire site with Beta Blogger made us realize how powerful a tool it is. Every time we thought we were done, we discovered another way it could be used. Or came up with a better way to highlight it's many capabilities.
And so began a protracted process of adding the design pages, the store and gallery pages, the try it yourself demo, the Live Spaces blog comparison and integration.
The site will no doubt continue to evolve. But one thing won't change:using Beta Blogger makes it's evolution a whole lot easier!
If you see anything wrong with the site, have any problems using it or any suggestions to improve it-please
drop us a line!
Webbrewers:professional design - user control
Our premise
Small business owners want a professional looking website that they can maintain themselves.
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Our promise
We deliver designs and apps with a designer look that are easy for users to update and maintain.
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We've been building sites on the Office Live platform since the beta days of 2006. We believe most OL site owners want 2 things:
to add content themselves without hiring a web designer to make every change
to create a site that LOOKS like they hired a web designer.
Beta Blogger is one outcome of that belief. It gives site owners complete control over content, while ensuring the content has a clean, professional, consistent presentation.
We're working on other ways to help OL users get more out of their sites. We'd love to hear from you if you have any questions or are in need of a service that can deliver a professional looking web site that leaves YOU in control of the content.
Visit our
interactive gallery to see a variety of different site designs we've developed.
Our services
Web site design from scratch
Web site makeovers
Custom applications based on contact manager/business applications
SEO/affiliate advertising analysis
Free consultations to gauge your web site issues
We brew-you DO!