The project is nowhere near complete. And I intend to continue working on it for a long time. I have made a devotional Bible study site. I cannot really measure its impact yet, except on my church, and I don’t think I kept anyone from buying the works that are offered. Many are thankful for the work, and some make good use of it. I think that the long-term opportunity is to offer works that are otherwise unavailable to folks that are interested in serious study. It could replace a trip to the Library, or it could save somebody buying certain software that has these works, or keep them from buying old works in print. In some cases it actually makes works available that were simply nowhere on the web yet. Continue reading ‘Wrapping Up the Econ Class Journal’
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I will try here to synopsize the goals, documentation, implementation, purpose and intended audience of this (project—Librex—) in this post. This may help to keep expectations real, and focus the efforts of the coming months and years.
Continue reading ‘Crystallizing the Purpose and Plan of Librex’
K2 is working again. I am happy to see that it is centered again. That is really all.
I am going to pretend you care to see what the iPhone screenshots look like. Above is the home page. It has special links at top and bottom of the page allowing you to jump to the contents, next and previous chapters.
Beneath is the logo/icon that will drop on your home screen when you make a home screen bookmark.
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)
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)
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.