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

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm tinkering with Icarus Slash Fiction as much as I tinkered with the Percyfest. I am so grateful to both you and singtoangels that neither of you have wrung my neck yet.

I've uploaded your current version here: http://percyfest.muse-wanted.com/Icarus_Slash_Fiction/isf.htm

I haven't touched a thing, honest! But I can go ahead and add the disclaimer on that first page. (This is fun.)

I haven't heard back yet from and_love, so I probably was too slow to take her up on her offer to host domains. I'm not interested in hosting an 'icarus' domain elsewhere, so I think I'll just go with the original plan and put both sites there. If they take too much memory, then we can revisit the domain idea.

As far as the way it appears in various browsers, I would snap up your little helper there as a long-term site-testing partner. Few people have the patience to look at a site through multiple browsers. I understand that if you design websites that work well in any browser it's a credit to you, and a feather in your designer's cap.

Icarus

[xenoface.livejournal.com]

Yes. i understand.

Anyway, you can tinker as much as you like. I've got the old version saved in my hard disk anyway so if anything goes too wrong, you could just visit http://sams-corel.rocksyou.org/isf or ask me for the files. I'll send it via e-mail if yahoo allows it.

-sam