Heal Your Church WebSite

Almost Perfect … that’s how I view BibleSeek.net. When you go there, the content, personality and purpose are right up front (of course it doesn’t hurt to have the World’s most compelling content online) The navigation is immediately obvious. In fact, I only found the following flaws, which I’m sure a coder as talented as the guy who did this site will fix in short order:

• First and foremost, fix the pop-up window that appears after you enter a search query. The pop-up is the non-evil type that provides information (your finds), but is off to the bottom left and is virtually clipped-off on one of my computers.

  I would suggest using a cookie to track the position of the dialog whenever it’s moved … and if no cookie appears, center it … I guarantee the user will immediately move it to where they like … your non-evil cookie will do the rest

• I would make the “search the Bible” radio button default, but again, cookie-up the user’s last selection
• I might improve the language used in the non-evil “found verses” pop-up where it says “compare verse” to “compare parallel translations of verse” … or something to that effect.

Don’t get me wrong, this is all “fine-tuning” and “tweaking” … which is what you do with a site that is nearly perfect. I should also note, according to the programmer’s entry on Rachel Cunliffe’s bbs, the guy who coded the site is

“thinking of doing a hypertext bible, where you can click on placenames and peoplenames to find out the histories of various peoples and places. “

YES, YES, YES, by all means, please DO. If it is as quality work as the current site, then it will tons-o-useful-fun.

BTW, nice touch … starting off with Genesis … good applicaiton of systematic theology never hurts.

Stumble it!