Correcting website content—mission impossible?
Many times as I proofread a client website, the musical score from “Mission: Impossible” will start playing in my head… you know which one I’m talking about. The one starring Peter Graves and Martin Landau.
I imagine the mysterious voice telling me that my mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find all errors on a certain page of the site. Surely Jim of the original TV series never had such a thrilling objective. Broken links beware, I’m on your tail.
Of course if I don’t find all the errors my computer will not self-destruct and my supervisor will probably not disavow all knowledge of my actions—although I have my suspicions. Nevertheless, quality assurance checks and proofreading can be high-pressure. The website needs to go live but can’t until YOU make sure everything is running smoothly and error-free. The clock is ticking, and of course, as is the nature of the Internet, things tend to break when you turn your back.
But unlike this “Mission: Impossible” Agent, I am paid in something besides peanuts.
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