Shout out for a Beta

[icarus]

singtoangels has been a doll helping with the Percy Ficathon site. So she asked me if I could find her a beta for her story.

Well, I couldn't find one right away, so darn it, I volunteered to do it myself.

I am cursing up a storm right about now.

I stayed home from school today, as I have an all-day conference on Saturday and a group project meeting on Sunday. I relaxed this morning by going through her story with a fine-toothed comb. Now, I'd only saved it to the Temp folder, but I just stepped away for a bit because WG wanted to check his email. Of course he took over. All I asked was that he not close any of my files.

Yahoo was running a bit slow, so he closed some programs.

Including the story.

It's gone. I searched with Explorer and all I find is a broken shortcut. I've checked the Temp files, everything. It's vanished.

I've used up my allotment. I don't have any large patches of free time until Tuesday afternoon. That's why I took today off. Hell.

I'm going to take another shot at finding singtoangels a beta.

Would anyone like to beta her story?

There were no SPAG errors, and only a few word recommendations. Everything I wrote had to do with clarification, story development and characterisation. She's the same person who wrote Idyllic Days for the Percy Ficathon.

Now tonight WG and I are going to review the basics of Microsoft Word 101: Saving Files, because this is not the first time. Though this is partially my fault. I popped it open and started typing instead of saving it first.

Comments

[haku-kaen.livejournal.com]

hope you like the next one. :3,

Oh, I like this one, it's lovely (especially since blue's my favorite color). I meant to mention it at the bottom of the last message so you wouldn't think the way the browsers screwed around with it were enough to put me off, but by the time I got done with the main message I was falling-down tired and just sent it off so I could get to bed.

None of things Netscape does to it are enough to bother me much as long as I keep the text-size down, I have no problem with images that're supposed to be in the middle of the page being there. It's just that often when I head into a CSS page on Netscape a side bar or title image or something will have somehow ended up in the middle of the screen, covering whatever text is there. When I saw the lack of this I was happy, and mentioning I was happy made me rant about pages where it does happen, because I hate it so much.

Really, as I said, apparently I've reached the point where if I see a preview of a CSS page I automatically do the Netscape & Firefox run through I've gotten used to doing for my friends (or else the sleeping pill I was struggling against while typing last night made my brain mushy which lead to the same results) and report back what happens. Compared to some of the really weird stuff I've occasionally seen my browsers do to a page, sidebars breaking out of their places and smushed headers aren't that big of a deal (and I do realise that it's really all my browsers' faults; by now Netscape should have figured out how to be at least as CSS compatible as Mozilla, which Firefox is a version of, although at least the page is visible and working, which it quite possibly wouldn't have been with earlier versions of NS.)

[xenoface.livejournal.com]

Well ... that's reasurring. thanks. :)

-sam