There are tons of spell checkers out there these days. Yesterday I decided to add the Spelling Checker Plug-in to the comments area here at MakeYouGoHmm. It’s powered by Aspell and based upon this speller pages sourceforge project. If you don’t have Aspell, nor the ability to install Aspell through your hosting provider, then it’s probably not something to mess around with on your own blog, but it’s fairly straightforward to implement if you have Aspell (or the ability to add it to your server).

Right now the “Check Spelling” button is located right next to the “Submit Comment” button, but I might move that because I’m thinking people might confuse the two. Maybe next to the “Subscribe to comments via email” checkbox would be better? Comments / feedback?

I also added a stats page that gives information like total number of posts, comments, most recent posts and comments, most commented posts, commenter stats (number of posts per commenter). Probably most readers don’t care about this stuff, but I have had a couple readers say that they missed the “show most recent comments” that used to be on the home page and was dropped when we switched blog scripts.

For readers and/or other bloggers interested in the MakeYouGoHmm Site Meter traffic stats, just click on the counter in the “This Page Stats” section. That will show the third party traffic stats for MakeYouGoHmm which has been available publically since February 15, 2004 when the counter was added.

Slowest traffic day of the week? Saturday. Guess most readers are taking the day off and unplugging. Mixing in some AFK time is a good thing.

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