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This is my first ever endeavor into some sort of programming. I use evernote or textedit to write a lot posts or guest post and there's not always a quick way

This is my first ever endeavor into some sort of programming. I use evernote or textedit to write a lot posts or guest post and there's not always a quick way to check word count before I send them off. In addition, a lot of wordcount sites out there were ugly, hard to use or filled with ads. I know it fills a really, really small niche need, but I was pretty happy I could put it together in a few hours, solve a small problem and learn something about programming at the same time. Now, to move on to bigger projects!

markszcz 14y ago
This is what I see in case it differs from you: http://imgur.com/jhjSV http://imgur.com/jhjSV Im on Windows 7 using Chrome. Personally I feel as though the gray box explaining what the page is, is taking up most of the page. Any way to make it smaller? This way I feel as though it would remove any scroll bars on the page and prominently show your "WordCount.is is a useful web utility by Joel Runyon" Other then that, page looks clean and is simple to use.
- joelrunyon 14y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. I'll see what I can do.
  - 5xz41s0P8T5N 14y ago
    I actually expected the word count to show up in the grey area, I think it would look nice.
- joelrunyon 14y ago
  Hey Mark, Went back through and cleaned things up. Thanks for the suggestion!
zrail 14y ago
You should check out Marginalia, my web-based markdown editor with live word counts. We even use the same bootswatch theme :) https://www.marginalia.io https://www.marginalia.io
- aaronblohowiak 14y ago
  the text on your buttons isn't centered vertically
  - zrail 14y ago
    Weird, they were fine yesterday. I'll take a look. Thanks!
joshellington 14y ago
Great start for a first endeavor. Couple notes: - Would definitely recommend rethinking the header/banner area. Takes up a lot of vertical space and seems unnecessary for such a simple tool. - You're loading jQuery twice. Recommend removing that second version (line 14). - http://wordcount.is/js/jquery.center.js http://wordcount.is/js/jquery.center.js is returning 404 and doesn't seem needed (line 12). - It's best practice to cache your selectors for re-use in jQuery. Here's a slight rewrite that does that and cleans up your event binding: https://gist.github.com/3764620 https://gist.github.com/3764620 Happy hacking!
- joelrunyon 14y ago
  Hey Josh, I went ahead and implemented all of your suggestions (I think). Seems to be a little bit faster! Thanks.
joelrunyon 14y ago
Thanks for all the support and suggestions everyone. I've gone ahead and implemented several of the suggestions. You can check it out here --> http://wordcount.is http://wordcount.is Thanks again for the support and programming help!

markszcz 14y ago

This is what I see in case it differs from you: http://imgur.com/jhjSV http://imgur.com/jhjSV Im on Windows 7 using Chrome. Personally I feel as though the gray box explaining what the page is, is taking up most of the page. Any way to make it smaller? This way I feel as though it would remove any scroll bars on the page and prominently show your "WordCount.is is a useful web utility by Joel Runyon" Other then that, page looks clean and is simple to use.

joelrunyon 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'll see what I can do.
- 5xz41s0P8T5N 14y ago
  I actually expected the word count to show up in the grey area, I think it would look nice.
joelrunyon 14y ago
Hey Mark, Went back through and cleaned things up. Thanks for the suggestion!

zrail 14y ago

You should check out Marginalia, my web-based markdown editor with live word counts. We even use the same bootswatch theme :) https://www.marginalia.io https://www.marginalia.io

aaronblohowiak 14y ago
the text on your buttons isn't centered vertically
- zrail 14y ago
  Weird, they were fine yesterday. I'll take a look. Thanks!

joshellington 14y ago

Great start for a first endeavor. Couple notes: - Would definitely recommend rethinking the header/banner area. Takes up a lot of vertical space and seems unnecessary for such a simple tool. - You're loading jQuery twice. Recommend removing that second version (line 14). - http://wordcount.is/js/jquery.center.js http://wordcount.is/js/jquery.center.js is returning 404 and doesn't seem needed (line 12). - It's best practice to cache your selectors for re-use in jQuery. Here's a slight rewrite that does that and cleans up your event binding: https://gist.github.com/3764620 https://gist.github.com/3764620 Happy hacking!

joelrunyon 14y ago
Hey Josh, I went ahead and implemented all of your suggestions (I think). Seems to be a little bit faster! Thanks.

joelrunyon 14y ago

Thanks for all the support and suggestions everyone. I've gone ahead and implemented several of the suggestions. You can check it out here --> http://wordcount.is http://wordcount.is Thanks again for the support and programming help!