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We have all heard the saying, "Where there's smoke -- there's fire."
Employers who find mistakes on a candidate's resume know that the same candidate will also be prone to mistakes during employment. The same can be said of a business website, consumer product or service. The quality of a product or service is questionable when the information or documentation about that product or service is flawed. How many sales are lost from typographical mistakes you may not even be aware of?

Additionally, websites with documents containing errors can reduce that website's search engine ranking thus reducing potential website traffic. You may think that your documents are error-free, but you would be surprised to learn how many issues can be identified on most websites and document batches. To prove this point, go to the "Sample" web page on this website to see an example of issues found by this service at the "U.S. Government Printing Office" (GPO) website. This example should allow you to quickly determine if this service will meet your needs.

So why do so many websites have spelling errors even after using a spell check tool during web page creation and editing? The answer is that usually the dictionaries used by these tools are not very robust. Once you begin to incorporate your specialized business terminology into your documents; you end up adding large segments of new words which usually are not verified because it is so time consuming. Also rushed deadlines and tired employees are prone to mistakes when creating and editing websites and documents.

Core Service Features

This service identifies:

* Possible spelling errors in document bodies
* Possible spelling errors in HTML tags (title, desc., keywords)
* Possible word mis-capitalizations of proper nouns
* Double typed words such as "the the"
* Unpopulated HTML tags that may affect your Internet search engine ranking
* Misuse of the articles of speech "a" and "an" (grammar check)
* Documents containing adult / foul English language
* Documents containing foreign languages to group in own area
* British style words
* Duplicate document files to free disk space (example)
* Zero size document files
* Unreadable or corrupt document files (example)


Additional Features

* Specialized business & science terminology included at no additional charge
* Context-based spell check for word pairs such as (Storey County)
* Hyphenated word support
* Top keyword phrase generation for trend and content analysis
* HTML tag count information and population statistics
* HTML alternate image text summary report
* List of website addresses present in your documents
* List of e-mail addresses present in your documents
* List of unrecognized words you can use to create a custom dictionary
* File selection filters to select specific documents by location and file name
* MD5 file checksum listing for document modification monitoring
* British to U.S. English word identification and conversion (.csv)
* Extensive dictionaries limit the number of unrecognized words
* Bird's eye view of HTML tag content
* No software to learn or install, simply request service via e-mail


This service currently supports the following document types:



* HTML web pages
* Microsoft Word Documents (.doc)
* Active server pages (.asp/.aspx)
* Java server pages (.jsp)
* ASCII text files
* Rich-text files (.rtf)
* Adobe PDF files (.pdf) (spell check limited to transposed characters)
* HTML files containing an XML ID tag*
* Cold Fusion Markup Language files (.cfm)
* PHP web pages


*XML files can be processed when they only contain English language words.

See allankirsch.tech.officelive.com for additional information.