I am amazed by what is possible with jQuery. I look forward to making good use of it on the site, now that I realize how easy it is to implement. I am so excited about making good use of it. 
I have changed the name to Good Books Free .com (aka goodbooksfree.com). I think I got caught up in the marketing think of the day and wanted to name the site like so many these days, where you have no idea what it is about, but it has a trendy-sounding name, think Aviva, Splenda, Nexium, etc. (Don’t think to deeply about that, name your company what you want. I just wanted something more descriptive.)
If you are watching the Private Alpha, I have updated the style, and finally posted the confessions (Keach’s Catechism and the 1689 London Baptist Confession). I have a lot in the hopper of my brain, and no idea what the time frame is for implementation. I had something called verse wrappers coming up, and I thought I was on the verge of completion, and the more I worked on it, the worse it got. 
If you are interested in using the Private Alpha, know that there is zero guarantee about it’s working. Just contact me using the name admin on the current domain (librex.us).
To that loan search bot that is reading this post, good night.
I can’t believe I am sitting in my graduation reception. I still have to finish economics (a quiz and the final). Then I have to take my music history and appreciation course over the summer. Yeehah. I know you are not reading this blog for this. But I wanted to get it out.
To my one dear reader,
I have been busy with school (and work). I plan on reading a book about (My)SQL before starting back up. I may also try to read a lot more and otherwise inform myself about JavaScript before I get back on this like I was. I imagine I may not really do much with this in the next month to three at that rate. I am sorry for the slowing, but my desire has in no way been diminished. Thank you for using Librex.
Sincerely,
David
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’
Ryle has earmarks. I am excited!
(≈30min)
I have changed a lot of what is out there. The look is substantially different. The way the earmarks work is pretty different. They look a lot alike, but they work in IE6/8 (and I presume IE7).
I removed the earmarking from many works until I can implement it better. I am bummed about the fact that I cannot earmark from Ryle’s Holiness any longer. I hope to fix that soon. I have grown some new ideas. And I have moved a WinXP/IE6 laptop in next to me so I can check my work periodically. I hope not to leave my IE6 users in the dark any longer, until such time as they drop significantly in the usage stats.
The navigation is changed a bit. The previous, next, contents, and page-level stuff is a bit different.
Next in the chute are the following:
- prefered version of Bible (and Psalter?)
- verse wrappers: <?=”Genesis 1.1″?> or <?=”Gen 1:1-12″?> will turn out the verse and link more easily with preferred version support
- psalm-singing helps: recommended tunes, available tunes, etc.: this may require SQL/DB before implementation.
- earmarking at paragraph and verse level (one before the para, and one after the verse) allowing use in works like the Geneva Notes which have multiple, or no notes per verse, etc.
- Support for earmarking in the Psalters
There are no guarantees here. But I hope to have the Ryle thing done soon.
With some help I found a number of problems in IE and other places with asymmetric form implementation. So, I have changed the earmark system (formerly “Dog Ears”). I have pulled earmarks off of all but a few portions of the site, until I have time to ensure their performance. I grew this thing too fast, and have been embarassed by it for a couple of days now. I will try to implement the earmarks in more places in different degrees as the Lord allows.
Now that I have learned a thing or two about cookies, I am planning to eventually implement a Preferred Bible option. (That does not give you a lot of options: Geneva Bible and Authorized Version; it’s basically my way or the highway.) At some point in the future, if we are able to offer other older (TR) English Bibles, e.g. Coverdale, Wycliffe, Tyndale, etc., you will see that option open up. I don’t know how reasonable that is, but I would like to see it eventually.
I hope there will be more to come.
(8-16 hours—big gap, I know, I have not been recording my hours carefully: 4+ hours tonight, and the same last night)
I have posted a fix to the stalling IE8 cookie monster problem, I think. (We don’t have IE8 here to test it, so I am presuming to know if this was a helpful thing.) I have also posted a fix to the IE6 style problem. I hope it works, too. Please let me know if you have problems.
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I worked some more and the KJB is now cleaned up a bit, and the iPhone has some lighter page loads. I also added a new script from Dean Edwards that allows IE6 and IE7 to act more like IE8 in terms of CSS/Style selectors and other behavior. This makes it easier to use one stylesheet. If you are using IE5.5 or lower, you are most likely having a hard time using this site, but that should be par for the course with you. If you are using IE6 and you have Javascript disabled, your experience on here will be poor. I think there are some other good things I did, but I am so fuzzy at this point that I cannot remember what it was. Good night.