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I have been a Microsoft Office Live for Small Business user for nearly four years now. I was able to create my website using their templates, since I know nothing of creating one from scratch.
In preparation for the upcoming switch from OLSB to Office 365, I began teaching myself XHTML and CSS in order to create a better looking and properly functioning website. If I have to rebuild my website for the switch, why not make it better? I found that creating a website using Dreamweaver was a fairly simple process. Of course I looked into whether or not I could use Dreamweaver for my OLSB site, and found that I can.
Now, however, I see that a site created in Dreamweaver can not be used in 365. I'm feeling a bit sick to my stomach thinking that all the hours I spent creating my new website have all been for nothing.
My question is this...If I "convert" my Dreamweaver website over to OLSB now (before the switch to 365), will I then be able to transfer it over to 365 when I make the switch in February?
Sorry if my terminology is misused, but I really am a noob here and don't have a lot of techie knowledge to work from.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Hello Griffin,
As far as I know, it looks like you will have to redesign your website using the site designer in Office 365. So far, all information I have seen regarding Office Live to O365 transition seem to confirm that fact. Unfortunately, the third party design feature in Office Live is also not included in Office 365.
However, you should still be able to design a great looking site by adding custom css and html.
Thanks for the information O.Touray...even though it wasn't what I wanted to hear at all :(
Given the information on your website, I bet you can help me with another question. Since my knowledge is very limited when it comes to all of this, can you tell me what the difference is between the code I write in Dreamweaver and "regular" XHTML and CSS code? And if I can't simply cut and paste the code from Dreamweaver to O365, what is a good text editor to use?
Sorry again if the terminology I use isn't exactly right. Thanks for bearing with me.
-Griffin
Griffin,
You can use 365 to host a 3rd party designed site. If you search around though I think you'll find many more flexible and suitable options. Here's how to upload your files.
Add 3rd party designed pages to your 365 public site
html and css are what they are-there's no difference in code output based on the design software used. The only way to connect to a 365 site though is through Sharepoint Designer. You could for example create a new file in SPD and paste in your Dreamweaver code and produce a valid page.
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@mch - that's great news. Thank you for the link to the article as well. Maybe I will be able to get out of the cookie-cutter website world after all.
Thanks a ton for your help guys. Looks like I'll stick with Microsoft for a bit longer to see how O365 turns out. I'm very thankful for knowledgeable folks like you and O.Touray who are coming to the rescue of all of us OLSB refugees.