Introduction to the Advanced Design Features

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By activating the Advanced Design features within a Microsoft Office Live Small Business account, you can access several design features for your customers' public-facing Web sites. To learn how to activate Advanced Design, see Activate and Deactivate Advanced Design Features.

Additional Modules

Activating the Advanced Design features adds four modules under Module in the actions bar in Page Editor. These modules include:

  • Site Information

  • Custom Navigation

  • Custom Header

  • Custom Footer

Site Information

Add a Site Information module to display the site-wide text variable for the site slogan, site title, or footer text.

Custom Navigation

Customize the navigation bar by editing the existing supporting XSLT code or replacing it with your own XSLT file.

Custom Header

Customize the header by editing the existing supporting XSLT code or replacing it with your own XSLT file.

Customize the footer by editing the existing supporting XSLT code or replacing it with your own XSLT file.

Enhanced Design Features in Existing Modules

When you activate Advanced Design, a Layout tab is added to both the Form Designer module and the List Publisher module. You can use these tabs to customize the form or list by editing the existing supporting XSLT code or replacing it with your own XSLT file. You can also apply new design templates to both forms and lists.

You can publish a list as an RSS feed to make the data available to a site other than an Office Live Small Business site.

Additional Advanced Design Features

Several other design features are available when Advanced Design is activated. You can do the following:

  • Remove the header, footer, and left navigation bar from Web pages

  • Customize the cascading style sheet (css) to change the look and feel of the site.

  • Save a Web page as a template.

See also

Customize the Header
Customize the Footer
Customize the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
Remove the Header from a Web Page
Remove the Footer from a Web Page
Remove the Navigation Bar from a Web Page
Save a Page as a Template

Form Designer Advanced Design Features
List Publisher Advanced Design Features

Add a Site Information Module
Modules in Office Live Small Business