It really won't take a lot of space. I have the KJV Bible with a bit of HTML markup and it's just a few megs in the MySQL database.

Bandwidth requirements will be the part we'll have to fight the most once it gets popular (and it will get popular )

Until we know what it's going to look like, we can't even work on the technical details except to study the various content management systems out there.

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Butch Adams
Blue Ridge, VA
http://daleridgechurchofchrist.net
http://mydailypause.org

I was messin around with some ideas today. I had about an hour with nothing to do while I was waitin on something.

http://granbychurchofchrist.org/Bibl...tary/Index.htm


That is a triple shared border template I whipped up. It is redicuously simple and easy to work with.

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"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him." 1 John 3:18-19

The church of Christ at Granby

I like it David! By the way, all of you are a bunch of go-getters! I love it!

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John 6:67-68: "Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, 'Would ye also go away?' Simon Peter answered him, 'Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.'"

I love my brethren..yes, God knows I do. All of you show me daily that fellowship in Christ CAN happen and it is a myth it cannot or that we need to compromise the Truth to do so.

We are just getting started. :-)

This is an interesting format brother. I like the simplistic side bar navigation. How would this design/style work when we add different sections such as the denominational study portion you mentioned before?

Did you build that to work with one of the CMS packages or is that just an html page?

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Butch Adams
Blue Ridge, VA
http://daleridgechurchofchrist.net
http://mydailypause.org

It's just an html page. I'm lookin at ways to submit to it with a simple form. Ya'll go ahead on with your content managers. I'm just playin around with some things for my own curiosity. Don't pay me any attention. I'm just fiddlin with some ideas.

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"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him." 1 John 3:18-19

The church of Christ at Granby

One thing that would be ideal is if, from the beginning we make sure the site is optimized and SE friendly.

I was just going to say I'm pretty good with Wordpress so I might be able to flex the design to work with it. I'm not an artist so if someone can get the pretty, I can get the functional.

Wordpress may not even be the right package though.

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Butch Adams
Blue Ridge, VA
http://daleridgechurchofchrist.net
http://mydailypause.org

I have already done some research on that. The keywords "Brotherhood" and "Commentary" in that order are wide open for SEO. It was no accident I put those two words in there. Even if you don't call it that, I think I can get it to dominate the search engines with those two words. But that name would be just super as far as SEO goes.

brotherhoodcommentary.com and all it's variations are available too.

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"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him." 1 John 3:18-19

The church of Christ at Granby

Wordpress is an excellent content management platform. Eddie uses it for the Preachersfiles.

I can help get the pretty. We need to have what we want it to do figured out as much as possible so that it can be engineered from the ground up. I'm not familiar with how word press works but I know with html it's easier to put it all in at the design stage than to add it later on.

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"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him." 1 John 3:18-19

The church of Christ at Granby

Agreed.

The design and platform would depend on whether we want a wiki style or an article submission style. Then if we are to support the idea of a printed version and the cross platform support for e-sword etc. the export functionality will have to be addressed.

I'm getting pretty anxious now ... I am about to finish up a study on the denominational use of Mark 9:38-40 that I need to publish somewhere

...b

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Butch Adams
Blue Ridge, VA
http://daleridgechurchofchrist.net
http://mydailypause.org

A new idea...

After looking at some of the great discussions that have occured on here, I'm led to think that we can use a technique that I have seen as documentation to various products using these forum packages. At the top of a new thread a "clean" post can be made of some subject - Take our Holy Spirit discussion for instance... After the article is posted, the thread below can be used for discussion and peer review and the top post can be edited as needed and the discussion is retained as sort of an audit trail on how we got to a certain point .... Points of dissent can be noted .... you get the idea....

For seekers and learners, separate threads can be broken off to discuss finer points of the article and of course the articles can become reference to other discussions that need to look back at previously beaten horses.

This should be fairly easy to implement given the volume of quality threads laying around on here.

...b

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Butch Adams
Blue Ridge, VA
http://daleridgechurchofchrist.net
http://mydailypause.org