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From: Bear Bottoms on 27 Aug 2006 19:38 Many folks would like to build their own site but are reluctant to get involved with writing HTML. An alternative to hand coding or using a web authoring tool is to use a web hosting service that allows you to use point-and-click tools to create a web site from a template. There are many of these services but the current offering from the Microsoft Office Live Beta service is very tempting. You not only get free site creation tools but also free hosting, five free email accounts plus a free domain name as well. Microsoft claims that if you sign up during the beta, the free hosting will continue even when the product goes live. It sounds like an unbeatable offer but there is a small catch; it's for US based users only...and ya gotta use Microsoft IE. 8-26-06 I registered for my domain name. I'm under a temporary name http://temp.bearbottoms1com.officelive.com/ until they register BearBottoms1.com. I am currently constructing the web site. So far so good...seems awesome for a business. The site construction tools seem to work fine as you get used to the alteration variables available. At first it seems you have to pretty much go with the templates, but you can actually alter them deeply. When I registered, they asked for a credit card, but they say it is only for verification purposes to prevent ... misuse. 8-27-06 It took one day for them to register my domain name. Now I have my own domain http://bearbottoms1.com Simply amazing. So far It hasn't cost anything and they say it won't. I will continue to post any significant events here, if there are any.
From: El Bandolero on 28 Aug 2006 06:21 Il Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:38:53 -0500, Bear Bottoms ha scritto: > Microsoft claims that if you sign up during the beta M$ Office version 2007 SUCKS more than ever I tried it and it takes even more time tham Office 2003 to open tiny doc and/or .xls documents It's another piece of fatware -- ciao Bando
From: El Bandolero on 28 Aug 2006 06:23 Il Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:21:05 +0200, El Bandolero ha scritto: > It's another piece of fatware I forgot to ask you a request Could you add in your site some comment beside the link? Your personal comment, just a few line would be appreciated to surf across the page, thank you :-) -- ciao Bando
From: John Corliss on 28 Aug 2006 07:46 Bear Bottoms wrote: > Many folks would like to build their own site but are reluctant to get > involved with writing HTML. An alternative to hand coding or using a web > authoring tool is to use a web hosting service that allows you to use > point-and-click tools to create a web site from a template. There are > many of these services but the current offering from the Microsoft > Office Live Beta service is very tempting. You not only get free site > creation tools but also free hosting, five free email accounts plus a > free domain name as well. Microsoft claims that if you sign up during > the beta, the free hosting will continue even when the product goes > live. It sounds like an unbeatable offer but there is a small catch; > it's for US based users only...and ya gotta use Microsoft IE. > > 8-26-06 I registered for my domain name. I'm under a temporary name > http://temp.bearbottoms1com.officelive.com/ until they register > BearBottoms1.com. I am currently constructing the web site. So far so > good...seems awesome for a business. The site construction tools seem > to work fine as you get used to the alteration variables available. At > first it seems you have to pretty much go with the templates, but you > can actually alter them deeply. When I registered, they asked for a > credit card, but they say it is only for verification purposes to > prevent ... misuse. > > 8-27-06 It took one day for them to register my domain name. Now I > have my own domain http://bearbottoms1.com Simply amazing. So far It > hasn't cost anything and they say it won't. I will continue to post any > significant events here, if there are any. Questions: 1. Do you have to install and use Office Live Beta service to get the free domain (assuming that there's anything you install in the first place)? 2. Do you have to set up a Passport account? 3. Is there any way to get around having to provide them with a credit card number? Something doesn't smell right to me about this deal. -- Regards from John Corliss. I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett. No ad, cd, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, PROmotion, share, spy, time-limited or trial wares or warez for me, please.
From: Bear Bottoms on 28 Aug 2006 16:21
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:46:19 -0500, John Corliss <jcorliss(a)fake.invalid> wrote: > Bear Bottoms wrote: >> Many folks would like to build their own site but are reluctant to get >> involved with writing HTML. An alternative to hand coding or using a >> web authoring tool is to use a web hosting service that allows you to >> use point-and-click tools to create a web site from a template. There >> are many of these services but the current offering from the Microsoft >> Office Live Beta service is very tempting. You not only get free site >> creation tools but also free hosting, five free email accounts plus a >> free domain name as well. Microsoft claims that if you sign up during >> the beta, the free hosting will continue even when the product goes >> live. It sounds like an unbeatable offer but there is a small catch; >> it's for US based users only...and ya gotta use Microsoft IE. >> 8-26-06 I registered for my domain name. I'm under a temporary name >> http://temp.bearbottoms1com.officelive.com/ until they register >> BearBottoms1.com. I am currently constructing the web site. So far so >> good...seems awesome for a business. The site construction tools seem >> to work fine as you get used to the alteration variables available. At >> first it seems you have to pretty much go with the templates, but you >> can actually alter them deeply. When I registered, they asked for a >> credit card, but they say it is only for verification purposes to >> prevent ... misuse. >> 8-27-06 It took one day for them to register my domain name. Now I >> have my own domain http://bearbottoms1.com Simply amazing. So far >> It hasn't cost anything and they say it won't. I will continue to post >> any significant events here, if there are any. > > Questions: > > 1. Do you have to install and use Office Live Beta service to get the > free domain (assuming that there's anything you install in the first > place)? > They install active x controls to manage the service functionality. > 2. Do you have to set up a Passport account? > Yes > 3. Is there any way to get around having to provide them with a credit > card number? > No > Something doesn't smell right to me about this deal. > I'm posting a blow by blow event log on both of my sites. http://members.cox.net/bearbottoms1 and http://bearbottoms1.com I haven't added it to bearbottoms1.com yet but I will tonight or tomorrow. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |