So, after many years of kicking about little apps and not putting the full effort in, I decided to bite the bullet and get on with it.<p>Very much inspired by patio11 and Bingo Card Creator, I present Griddol (http://www.griddol.com) a tool to create and play word searches. Intended mainly for teachers, but encouraging those who like a word search too.<p>This been churning around in my head for over a year in various forms, and I used the concept to help learn CoffeeScript, CouchDB and node.js, so even if the product itself is a failure, the learning process has been valuable.<p>I'll be the first to admit that it's somewhat(!) unpolished and needs a lot of work and content, but it's out there now.<p>I appreciate any comments you might have.
Congratulations. I strongly suggest a design which visually suggests what to click on. At the moment everything looks buttonesque and virtually nothing leads to you being happy if I click it.
It's cool, but needs a lot of design, it's very raw yet.<p>One other thing, the program should not allow me to click anywhere, like, if I start to make a word in horizontal and them click 4 columns on the vertical he shoul not compute that, or something like this... (I don't know if you can understand this without some screenshot)<p>polish, polish and polish more. :D
Great job getting on with it. I look forward to seeing if/how you modify your design and implementation.<p>As I was browsing through your JS code to figure out how you end up positioning the words (vertical, horizontal or diagonal), I found the "naughtyWords" list to be hilarious. It was immediately clear to me that the developer inhabits the UK.<p>Congratulations on your success!
First of all congratulations ! Some feedback : on IE9 at the registration page the textboxes appear emtry (no username,password,confirm passwork text) , a visitor would probably hit the back button !