There is a little more iPhone support, like increasing the view port size by “losing” the address/location bar. The titles are much more descriptive now: they tell the book and chapter and primary and secondary resource name, e.g. primary–Scriptures or Commentary, secondary–Geneva Bible, or Matthew Henry Commentary. This is most important for bookmarks and “SEO.” It makes the title and other pieces of information more valuable to folks that are finding these pages on Google. Eh, who am I kidding…this will go on for some time.
(6-8 hours)
Monthly Archive for January, 2009
Really, I need to get to other work. I did finish up (or start up) a look up device that allows the page to discern it’s name and title information from its position in the directory structure. It populates the title element, the first h1, it should eventually populate the dublin core data, and other elements as well.
That’s all. I think.
I worked on the navigation pane at right.
You could already visit the page you are on in other works, e.g. if you were in the King James Bible, you could go to the same chapter in the Geneva Notes or Bible or Matthew Henry’s Commentary, or the like.
Now, you can navigate forward and backward, e.g. to the previous and next pages. On the iPhone there are some large nav links at the top and bottom of each page to get forward and backward easily.
I removed the Home link from the bottom “Housekeeping” area, and I added a link to this journal (that is this Librex blog).
I also made a number of mild style tweaks, to increase legibility and logical distinctions between areas within pages.
That is about all for today.
Here is a wish list of things that this app should either be able to do, soon have, change from its current behavior:
- Navigation (nav) should be at right always (position:fixed;)
- It needs pages for the main groupings, e.g. scriptures, commentaries, utilities, etc.
- Author pages need to be built
- Home should not be in housekeeping
- Paras (¶) need to be somewhat pronounced in Bible passages, and added (if simply borrowed from AV) to the Geneva Bible
- Next and Previous book and chapter (top and bottom of the passage? or does the right nav suffice)
- Indicator: At least one of the following:
- tabbed navigation that indicates your general position in the site, like tabs across the top with the category you are in: Scriptures, Commentaries, Confessions, etc.
- Breadcrumb navigation
- iPhone interface? I don’t know how practical that is, I just think I would like it.
None of these are guaranteed. But they are all things I think I would like.
It is worth saying that this thing is pre-alpha, if there were such a thing.
I was able to accomplish more than I expected tonight. I did not finish the logic for pages, but I was able to clean and upload many pages. They really work. I have up three working bibles, some style changes, I have been able to polish the user interface a bit. I would be interested in your comments about the site, and what should change. Though there comes with that no promise of implementation.
(2-3+ hours)
A while back I built a site, called reformingworship.org. It is still in existance, and there is nothing particularly wrong with it. But there have been a lot of things that I have wanted to do to it. I need to link it better. I need to build it using a DB backend and MySQL. I need to find a way to easily build Bible links either on the fly or at least using regular expressions. I need to have file extensions that still work on personal computers when the files are downloaded and reused.
(2-3 hours)
There were two big changes this evening: a fairly large style shift and a move to make everything available by .html extensions. This will allow file downloads even though the pages are server-parsed.
I generally enjoy a “relatively” minimalistic appearance. But in this case, I think it is especially appropriate, given the purpose of the site. I picked some light to medium blues (whose hues collectively sit around the 220º mark).
I am in the process of creating a master page. Once that is complete, I will begin to force some pages into it. Over time, I should have a couple Bibles, Psalters, Commentaries and the like in that master page. The timeline is up in the air. I have had those documents downloaded for some time, and have even posted them elsewhere. But I want to really integrate them with each other, and clean them and link them very well back-and-forth. I hope you will see the outcome soon.
(2-3 hours. Times are approximated.)
I have long wanted to put together a good reference site for folks that want a good Bible reference online. I am not sure I will be delivering it here. But that will be my effort. This journal in particular is for a class (Microeconomics) where our teacher wants us to consider volunteering’s effect on the economy. I presume it is adverse (in terms of measurements and indicators, e.g. GDP), but we will see over the course of the class.