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I began this website on the mid-afternoon of 25 June 2009. For a few months, Windows had been pestering me to install all these little Office add-ins. I ignored them until business struck--not as exciting as opportunity, I know, but it's the truth.

 

And truth is: it's time to tease fans with what I will spring upon you. I want every point and tool at my disposal... so long as they don't cost this hungry creator more pennies than they are worth. I already had a computer, a digital camera, technical writing training, and research skills. And time. Not money, but time in abundance, I have.

 

Enough to find web hosting fraught with conditions. Online workshops require member registration to find and view documents. And I questions the security and costs of websites which post your book or screenplay for industry review. In either case, I never saw evidence that agents or publishers puruse these places. When Windows once again notified me of a scheduled update, I decided to take a closer look at their web apps.

 

For my small business as an author, Office Live is so far helpful. Domain registration is cheap and reliable; it includes both email and domain privacy. It does not require one to own an MS Office Suite, and a robust community provides all sorts of free advice and plug-ins for web site enhancement, networking, and marketing.

 

Brianranzoni.com brings my Werld to the world. I proudly present this little piece of mind.

Technical Thingies


Brianranzoni.com is currently set at 980 pixels wide by default--though the masthead pushes pages out to about 1060 pixels. It is designed for widescreen view. All pages are designed on an Hewlett-Packard w2207h LCD widescreen.

 

Originally constructed on an HP m7790y multimedia ATX plaftorm with Intel's E6600 Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz CPU. Current programs used to create and maintain this site: Windows 7 Premium, Adobe InDesign CS5.5, Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Corel VideoStudio Pro X3, and Office Enterprise 2007. The website itself is assembled in the Office Live Small Business Web Design Tool.

 

I use Facebook Connect for commenting. I use Add to Any as a page sharing and bookmark portal.

 

My website is served remotely, via Office Live Small Business.

 

Brianranzoni.com includes a number of embedded JPEGs and widgets. Certain doo-dads might fail to load for users stuck with dial-up or a congested connection. 

 

All PDF files are presented to you in x-1a:2001 ISO standard, modified to be compatible with Acrobat 5.0 or later to support emedded web links. To view PDF files, ensure your PC is using the latest version of Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader.

 

Brianranzoni.com uses banner ads and links from Amazon Associates to help defray the cost of web maintenance.

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