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Creating Your Website: DIY or Go With a Pro?

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Step 2 of our 11 Steps to Create a Successful Website walks you through a decision-making process on whether you should build your own website or contract the work out to professionals involved in designing, building and marketing websites. Using that as a stepping off point, listen in to this Podcast as we gain the added perspective of an expert whose clientele includes over 350,000 website customers (and growing).

Michael Schultz is US team lead for Microsoft Office Live marketing and shares with us his views and experiences about when you’re better off building the website yourself using templates versus reaching out to professionals.

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I have begun to explore office live small business web design tool, as well as the templates within expressions web, I also have a hosted site with a thirdparty that provides site-builder, .. My question is can I publish with the office live small business web design tool to my existing hosted site?

Some site builders require certain hosting criteria for the resulting site to work/display properly. Pages made in Yahoo site builder probably won`t work on other hosting set ups other than yahoo hosting, as an example. I`ve never used Frontpage, but I believe Frontpage built sites require hosting that allows frontpage extensions. Your best bet is to get a template or custom made site that will work on any Linux based web server, as they`re less hassle to create and set up, and can easily be mo...

front page is a web editing tool like dreamweaver.  it is not necessary to have front page extension compatible hosting to use. there are free templates online, search google.

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