Dirty Little Secret

I have a website.

Some of you are doubtlessly thinking, “No kidding, I’m reading it.” But I’m not talking about this. Because while I have finally gotten my own domain (and really, that was more complicated than it should have been. I’m still afraid to upgrade, for example), this is just a blog. Albeit a cool one. (Now that I have a website I can finally use the  word albeit without sounding pretentious. Right? ).

But now thanks to Microsoft Office Live, I have ANOTHER website. A real one that can have all kinds of pages on and do things like merge with Microsoft Office stuff. Sadly, I have not yet established the website’s purpose. I was thinking something teacher-ish, since I’ve written a lot of education articles and you know, I used to be a teacher. But then I remembered that I’d rather stick with writing than teach, so I thought maybe I should do a freelance writer type site. . .

Yeah, so the site’s not up yet or anything. But I have discovered that Microsoft Office Live has lots of cool templates and that it’s a pretty easy way to set up a website. Though I might suggest knowing what you’re doing ahead of time. Possibly even having a plan. I hear that makes these things go faster. Because I have spent several hours on my website and have very little to show of it, what with my changing the topic every hour or so.

But once I decide what my site should be for I will totally be able to design it, or I can find a designer through them if I want to be all fancy and customized. There are also training videos. I don’t know anything about them because my position on training videos is similiar to the average man’s opinion on directions, but I bet they’re helpful if you’re not prejudiced like me.

The site is very business oriented and somewhat intuitive, both of which surprised me. I don’t find much stuff online intuitive, I just spend hours on it until I think it’s intuitive (ie Facebook). I don’t know why the business aspect surprised me, what with “office” in the title and all. Overall, for someone relatively inexperienced and starting a small business, I think Microsoft Office Live is pretty cool.

Oh yeah. . .it’s also FREE. Your website? Also FREE.

I wrote this review while participating in a blog campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Microsoft Office Live. Mom Central sent me a gift card to thank me for taking the time to participate.