Okay pretend you are going to do this How do you develop a website with full range of selling oh let s say Antiques of whatever you collect pick what you collect YOU are going to develop the software that goes into this go read up on this and develop a software and implementation plan to do so no buying packages already out there in other words RUN with this have FUN with this make up software names take something out there make it better be CREATIVE I am tired of just you reading articles and posting what they said go use your brains and have fun The objective one of them this week is software development and implementation activities I am going to collect ninja dolls My software implementation plan will be as follows 1 decide on purpose of website will it be to showcase my collection to collect more or to sell what I already have 2 Layout pages and decide what each page should look like 3 create boards for each page 4 decide on fonts headings colors and wordings and pictures 5 Decide on commerce aspect and security and testing and marketing plan 6 Create site 7 Test 8 Go Live after tweaking 9 Market site Discussion Question Based on the Kercher 2011 article what affect does Microsoft Office Live have on how small medium size businesses design develop implement deploy and support office systems Answer Microsoft Office Live Small Business OLSB is great for small to medium sized businesses The software is expandable as companies grow it has limited free e mail campaigns near CRM capability can optionally integrate search engine marketing e commerce offers team and customer collaboration traffic reporting and houses over 20 optional business apps The bottom line is you get a whole lot for free with this small business webifier 500MB of Web storage one year of domain registration simple site building tools 100 e mail accounts and more than 20 integrated business applications including project and contact management Microsoft Office Live Small Business gives SMBs the power to start doing business on the Web yet keeps the process simple Microsoft Office Live which is discontinued as of May 1 2012 will be replaced by Office 365 Microsoft Office Live Small Business OLSB is going to be discontinued because of a few hiccups they encountered Email and calendars don t quite exactly sync with provisioned Hotmail accounts Also resized images don t maintain aspect ratio Overall it is being replaced because that s what software companies do they replace with newer and better products For small to medium size businesses Microsoft Office Live includes the following 1 Anti virus and antispam filtering 2 Cloud based e mail using own domain name 3 IM PC to PC calling and video conferencing 4 Shared calendars 5 Web based viewing and editing of Word Excel PowerPoint and OneNote files 6 External Web site 7 Team site for sharing files 8 Web based viewing and editing of Word Excel PowerPoint and OneNote files 9 Community Support In review Microsoft Office Live will perform all of the needed functions for a small to medium sized business in regards to design develop implement deploy and support office systems That is if the company uses Microsoft tools like Word Excel OneNote PowerPoint etc Citation Kercher S 2011 Microsoft Office Live Small Business Services Faulkner Information