Updates to the Word Study Tool and the Latinitas Recens

I was recently browsing through Google Analytics (a tool that measures traffic to this site) and noticed that the most popular page by far is the Word Study Tool. In light of that, I spent 30 minutes sprucing it up to make it look better. I hope you enjoy it. I would eventually like to add more keyboard shortcuts. Presently, the only keyboard shortcuts are the left arrow and the right arrow.

In other news, I also updated the template for the Latinitas Recens page. I'm working on incorporating that dictionary (as well as Whitaker's Words) as a new source. In the meantime, please enjoy the updated look.

Back End Improvements

So now that the site is "live" Google has been indexing it like mad. There are approximately 18,000 pages on this site (because every word gets its own page), and Google decided to hit every single one of them. Today.

So, the good news is, we survived. The better news is that I was able to see some "holes" in the security and indexing. So, I patched up a few holes and verified and tested the registration and sign on system. I also added a robots.txt, updated the blog archives so they work and programmatically titled every page so when you see them in a search engine, you'll know exactly what you're looking at.

Well, I'm exhausted. I've been working on this site for 3 days straight, in between sleeping and doing my regular 40-hour-per-week summer job. So maybe I'll just leave it be for a few days and see how it fairs.