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In this day and age there are lots of readily available tools to help us avoid obvious mistakes in website content. Whether you write your articles in something like MS Word™ or directly into Dreamweaver™ you should always use the spellchecker.

But don’t stop there. Spellcheckers are a valuable tool but they are not foolproof. Take the following sentence:

“My girlfreind is a widget.”

Your spellchecker will correctly identify “girlfreind” as being misspelt. What it will not do is identify the typo “widget” which should have been midget. Widget is a perfectly valid word and will be ignored when spellchecking.

There’s no excuse nowadays for misspelling words but unless you proofread everything you write you will end up making silly mistakes and that does not look professional. Proofread, slowly and out loud. That way you will usually pick up on any mistakes.

Just as an aside, for those of you who copy text from somewhere else to use (which is an SEO no-no anyway but many do it – particularly for product descriptions), don’t assume that it is error free. Proofread it yourself.