Suspect that your site is riddled with typos? Web service spellr.us will identify spelling mistakes while you wait.
Despite the .us domain, the operation is Sydney-based, so there’s a proper Australian spelling option. On a trial run through my personal site, it quickly picked up a bunch of stupid errors, which (as a pedant of long standing) I’m now kicking myself for lasting this long without being detected. With that said, it also inevitably picked up a lot of individual names and specialised vocabulary. You can add frequently used terms to an individual dictionary.
spellr.us is free to trial and for a quick once-over on your site, though it gets costlier pretty quickly if you want ongoing checking, with the cheapest option costing $24 a month. That’s probably too pricey for your personal site, but could be a worthwhile investment on a business site with a lot of text content that changes regularly.
Dave
April 8, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Cheers for this. I tend to write most of my blog posts in word before posting them (as exact word count is an issue on http://www.100wordreviews.net), so the only errors this found were personal choices (eg. “that’d”). Don’t think I’d pay for it, though. A copy/paste into word is a pretty easy option (and free). But I could certainly see that some companies would be willing to pay for this.
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