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New Features.. Kind of New..

July 9, 2008 at 5:33 am girlsaskguys 1 comment

It has been a little over a year that GirlsAskGuys has launched and it is stronger than ever. We constantly work on getting new features out the door, and since these are rather subtle changes than, say implementing a brand new functionality, we usually release these changes without the fireworks. I will mention a few of the recent changes here this week.

Hot linking: We thought that it was irritating each time when someone writes a link it would show the full URL, which you cannot click on but instead have to copy the whole damn thing and paste it into the address bar. Instead, whenever you insert a full URL into an answer or a question, it will turn the URL into a clickable link and will name it as “Link”. Example: when you type http://www.abcd.com, it will appear as link and clicking on it will take you to the URL you have typed in.

Now the spammers might think that it is an avenue for them to spam the site in order to get some back links, however, these links are ‘no follow’ so don’t even bother.

Spell Checker: There is now a spell checking option both when submitting a question and an answer. This might especially be useful for those members who ask “Why are my entries removed due to grammar”. Now remember, the removal reason (or reporting reason) “grammar” encompasses all grammatical violations, but by far the most use of this specific remove reason is due to misspellings. And I am not talking about using one abbreviation here and there, or honest mistakes, but those that are so poorly written that it hurts my brain cells to understand what is going on! So feel free to use the spell checker if you think you need some help with spelling errors.

On a side note, those of you who use Internet Explorer as their web browser might want to take a look at Safari or Firefox as they provide built-in spell checkers that underlines the misspelled words as you type along.

Added the title to the URL: We also have added the title of the question to the URL so it makes more sense when you see the URL.

For example; the URL used to look like this:

http://www.girlsaskguys.com/Other-Questions/25130.html

And now it looks like this:

http://www.girlsaskguys.com/Other-Questions/25130-how-has-girlsaskguys-helped-you.html

We are always here thinking of ways to improve your experience with GirlsAskGuys. And the times when we are not doing that, we are implementing what we have thought so far. So keep on sending us your feature requests to help us improve your experience, too.

Onur
homer

Entry filed under: Site News. Tags: hot linking, new features, Site News, spell checker, URL rewrite.