Web Site reference - Design Notes - and Tool links


Weebly.com looks good!
  • Easy to edit and start
  • Will embed other code
  • Reasonable rates

Alternative Hosting Options

Top 10 best hosting 2012
consumer rankings

Tools to backup a Website
  • Inspyder's Web2Disk
    • Costs $39 trial possible
  • Website Downloader
    • Costs $16- Lots of problems trying to download an office live site.  Can't find all the server based format/layout stuff.
  • HTTrack
    • Has Problems with Microsoft aspx and will not replicate the tabs, or find all the pages.
  • A1 Website Download
    • Microsystools 
    • No reviews makes me wonder...
  • WinWSD 
    • WebSite Downloader from cnet
Microsoft Website Mess

After starting with officelive, getting lots of users Microsoft has  decided to end the program and urge everyone to transfer to Sharepoint - Office365, for a fee.  If I were a lawyer this might sound a lot like bait and switch, but as an engineer it just makes me further lose faith with Microsoft Products and Services.  The transistion is very poorly planned, poorly documented, and contains many problems. Sites will not transition well, there will be DNS problems within Microsoft when trying to move domains.  

Great DNS Propogation tool:  Click Here
Use this to prove that the rest of the world can see your MX or txt records, why can't they! To resolve Verify problems with MS

Direct link to primary domain of every page, no matter where hosted (without www):


Domain Registrar's

These links should work until April 30, 2012 when Microsoft abandons all the customers they conned into Officelive.

Office365 Pages - temp domain to edit
>Login to office365

Note: If this link does not work it means that Office 365 thinks they are offering the pages on the correct domain.

Office 365 does not offer customer support in any type of sraight forward manner, however, this phone number will get you to support, such as it is.  It took >196 hours to get "verify" to work in the DNS setup.  World wide Nameservers showed the correct TXT and MX records, but Microsoft processes could not function.

1-800-865-9408 Press 4, 1, 1 to get through msgs

Look here

Another secret back door to technical support, get the name and ID number of the person you talk to.  A 5 digit extension.  After that you can get back to that person with:

1-866-449-7320 then put in the 5 digit #

Live.com Email:
>Login to live.com email

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