April 09

The Earlier Entries Page-integrating a Live Spaces blog
On this page we've incorporated a Live Spaces blog. It's a predefined page in the Beta Blogger set of included pages that can be used in a couple of ways:

1/ for an existing Live Spaces blog-just add your Live id to the module and your old blog will be integrated into Beta Blogger and fully exposed to the search engines. No need to recreate your old entries-they'll appear automatically!

2/.for capacity reasons, Beta Blogger limits you to 60 posts with comments included. When you reach the limit, paste your older posts over to a Live Spaces blog and all your posts will still be included in your blog!


Whatever you use this page for, you won't have to do anything to make a Live Spaces blog look like your Beta Blogger blog-it'll take on the same styling automatically!!

So don't worry if you already have a Live Spaces blog-it's easy to integrate it in to your new blog!
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March 12

What Beta Blogger can't do...
Office Live Small Business has a number of limitations which even Beta Blogger can't overcome. Like a restaurant where the meals are already prepared, all we users can do is change the presentation and the seasoning, we can't affect the ingredients. With that in mind 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 a 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.

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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