KnitMeter Has Been Upgraded

KnitMeter.com was originally started over four years ago in December of 2007 as a small project that my wife thought would be useful. Since then, the site hasn’t changed much, but it has managed to grow to thousands of users who have knit nearly 20 thousand miles of yarn. I’ve received numerous requests and have finally gotten a chance to impliment what many of you have been requesting for a while now. New features on the site include:

• Users can now add entries for knitting, crocheting, and spinning
• Completely new and modernized design and logo
• You can customize your widgets directly on KnitMeter.com rather than editing the code for the widget on your website
• The website and the KnitMeter Facebook Application are now completely integrated. Entries added in one will be displayed and counted in the other
• The Facebook application can (again) publish your entries to your news feed, but only when you tell it to
• You can chose to make your profile public, which will display some of the most recent entries on the KnitMeter home page with a link to your website
• Added several new timeframes, including specific calendar years (ie: I knit 4.3 miles in 2010)
• Numerous technical changes that should make the site faster to use and make it easier to make future changes

These new features have been rolled out over the past couple of weeks. I appreciate the patience of those who have dealt with a few bugs over that time, and I believe that everything should be pretty bug-free now. I encourage you to check out the new site and to start adding up the mileage for your own projects. The next major milestone will be when we have gone through enough yarn to go around the earth (about 24,901 miles). At the present rate, we should hit that figure in about 3-5 months.

Happy Knitting, Crocheting, and Spinning,
Brandon Checketts
KnitMeter.com