Thank you everybody!

It is truly an honor to receive this award, as I told gToon (Ricky) when I was first told of winning:

"To be chosen as the Writer's Forum Artist of the Month from such a large field of wonderful talent is a great honor, truthfully though, I never ever thought I had the proverbial snowball's chance of being nominated, much less winning..."

Again, thank you all for this honor.

God Bless You and take care,

Larry (CoyoteSeven)

Appreciate it Robert, It'll be awhile before I need it, so no big rush. Meanwhile, I have the next day off and am working on another installment of 'Cailin's Journey'. Hope to have it edited and ready by evening.

Thanks again!

That simple?

And here I was thinking I was going have to use Kompozer/type til I bleed.

Thanks Robert!

Edit: Seems I can't use file locker for some reason, can I use the public share link Google Drive gives me for the same result(s)?

Thanks Robert.

I'm 99.99% sure my story line will comply with the rules as it will mostly be based on a Tolkien's Middle Earth scenario after the fall of Sauron , but with a few twists and turns of my own. As in real life, just because you get rid of one source of evil and strife, doesn't mean another won't take its place.

As I stated, I'm still working out the details to give it a good start and hopefully also to give it a long run. In high school, I did a few short stories for literature class, but we're talking almost 40 years since then.

Right now, I'm working mainly on the characters graphic representations so the launch will hopefully be close to "picture perfect".

Take care,

Larry

@4222525

Jenifer,

All these problems should not have made it out of beta testing TO BEGIN WITH!

I've seen where the beta testers on other threads mentioned the plethora of bugs, but were either ignored or told it will be fixed when the "upgrade" goes live...
SAY WHAT?!

I would dare say a few minor bugs (usually present in all sites after a major upgrade/revamp) may have been graciously accepted by most members/customers/vendors, but the whole site gone FUBAR?

I think you all got the gist through the forums, that this was not acceptable.

I have a feeling there's going to be some heavy duty "keester smooching", especially to the vendors for awhile after this fiasco.
They're the ones that probably suffered the most due to this travesty.

Hopefully TPTB have learned something and will never repeat this atrocity, again:

1. NEVER hire the lowest/cheapest bidder to do ANY job.
2. Beta test the living crap out of your upgrade(s) and really listen to your beta testers during these tests.
3. Never, ever, release a site upgrade with more bugs than an entomology research facility and expect your users to "roll with the flow" until we get it fixed.

Time will tell over the next few days if all these promises are fulfilled, but remember, the longer it takes, the more members/customers/vendors may be lost.

Just my 2% of the US Dollar.

Personal note: Really sucks that Dumbdown, er, Markdown does not allow the use of special characters (like the cent sign) in posts...
I understand it's really pi**ing off the European users of this site. TPTB may want to consider that little problem, too.

Sounds like solid advise Duanemoody, and Kristi's fast reply has me somewhat hopeful.
However, I hope Rendo learns a valuable lesson here.

1. DO NOT hire the cheapest contractor you can find to redesign your site.
2. Beta test (and actually listen to your testers) the living crap out of the new design before shoving down the throats of your members/customers/vendors

Just my 2% of the US Dollar.

Thank you for the reply Kristi, time will tell.

You'll be missed here, brother... but not for long.
I foresee many of us leaving this once great site and joining you, unless TPTB find a cure soon for their acute case of cranialrectumosis.

I learned HTML(Hyper Text MARKUP Language, NOT markdown) during the "type 'til you bleed" era, now I use an editor... but I still have to go in manually, now and then to make changes the modern editors no longer support but are still viable.

Markdown is very neutered (and dumbed-down) compared to HTML of any version and can never compete with all the bells and whistles available.
I refuse to lower my standards of intelligence, thank you very much.

@4221700 and @4221755 (a.k.a. standard party line response)
Quoting KristiS:
"The site is supposed to adjust with whatever device you are using. We understand that things are not working the way we had all hoped and our programmer, developer, as well as the VP is working very hard to fix the issues.

I do understand all of your frustrations, we all do. What we are focusing on now is trying to rectify the situation and do it as quickly and efficiently as we can.

As stated above, to show up on Google searches your have to be Mobile compliant - it isn't so much what your customers are using that is the driver for that, but that you disappear down the list if you can't get the mobile tag.

We deeply apologize for the inconvenience and we are trying very hard to make things right."

PUH-LEEEEEZ!!!!
Rendo's biggest competitors RDNA and DA are not using a "mobile friendly" format (if Rendo's present fustercluck is any definition of the term) and they are listed prominently on Google.
Just for gits and shiggles I searched Google for various porn, anarchist, druggie and other less than reputable sites (I will not mention their names or IRLs)... guess what?????
Almost all of them are NOT using so-called "mobile friendly" formats... and Google is prominently listing them.

Seems there's enough male bovine excrement being spread to fertilize every cornfield in Indiana (I lived there for 4 years... there's a lot of cornfields there)!!!

It's not nice to blame your SNAFUs on somebody else... please, just admit you all messed up, you're only human and go back to the better, truly more user fiendly, previous format.

Just my 2% of the US Dollar.

@4221700
Quoting KristiS:
The site is supposed to adjust with whatever device you are using. We understand that things are not working the way we had all hoped and our programmer, developer, as well as the VP is working very hard to fix the issues.

I do understand all of your frustrations, we all do. What we are focusing on now is trying to rectify the situation and do it as quickly and efficiently as we can.

As stated above, to show up on Google searches your have to be Mobile compliant - it isn't so much what your customers are using that is the driver for that, but that you disappear down the list if you can't get the mobile tag.

We deeply apologize for the inconvenience and we are trying very hard to make things right.

PUH-LEEEEEZ!!!!
Rendo's biggest competitors RDNA and DA are not using a "mobile friendly" format (if Rendo's present fustercluck is any definition of the term) and they are listed prominently on Google.
Just for gits and shiggles I searched Google for various porn, anarchist, druggie and other less than reputable sites (I will not mention their names or IRLs)... guess what?????
Almost all of them are NOT using so-called "mobile friendly" formats... and Google is prominently listing them.

Seems there's enough male bovine excrement being spread to fertilize every cornfield in Indiana (I lived there for 4 years... there's a lot of cornfields there)!!!

It's not nice to blame your SNAFUs on somebody else... please, just admit you all messed up, you're only human and go back to the better, truly more user fiendly, previous format.

Just my 2% of the US Dollar.