Book Order Bible

Tutorials

The tutorials on this page explain how to use the Tables and Notes pages. Use the links below to jump to specific sections of the tutorials.

Tables Tutorial Nehemiah's Wall Switching Table Layers Table Design Hovering Dots for Information Linking to Notes

Notes Tutorial Traversing the Wall Control Panel Parchment Scripture Quote Notecard Postit Sidebar

Tables Tutorial

Nehemiah's Wall 

Nehemiah's Wall is the motif we're using these days to understand and explain the many replays that span across the Bible and layer together. In essence, each replay hits themes from the 66 books and is like a layer of bricks forming one row of the "curtain wall" around the city. With each successive replay stacked on top of the existing replays the wall climbs to full height and the system begins to interact up and down in fascinating ways.

While all replays hit a theme or story from the 66 books in order, not all replays are the same. Currently we are classifying the replays into four distinct types or levels on the greater wall. The names of each level are as follows, starting at the bottom of the wall:

• Dot 2: replays with chapter pacing
• Dot 3: replays with chapter pacing
• Dot 4: replays with paragraph pacing
• Dot 5: replays with verse pacing

We'll probably develop a graphic that carefully pictures this system, but much work remains and the motif may yet be adapted. Certainly anything in this section of the website is in flux and though already informative and useful has a long ways to go before it's "canned." To borrow terms from software release cycles you're looking at something like an alpha or early beta release in terms of the presentation and usability of the material here.

Switching Table Layers 

The default table when you click the "Tables" link in the left menu, is the Dot 2 Table, which shows all the replays that live at this level of the wall. To switch Table Views to one of the other tables simply use the pull-down menu at the top right corner of the page to select a different table.

When you switch Table views you are still on the Tables page as far as the left menu is concerned, but the Table itself changes to display the replays associated with the level selected in the menu.

Table Design 

All four tables require scrolling to the right to see everything. We have condensed things as much as possible, but anything with 66 parts is difficult to render in the space of a web page.

The section at the very top of each table is the "control panel." The control panel displays the title for the current table being viewed, a couple links to helpful information, including this tutorial, and a menu to the far right for switching table views as discussed above.

Running down the left most column are the names for each replay in the table. Click any replay name to jump to the Notes page where that particular replay starts. (More about how to jump to the notes page from these tables follows below.)

Hovering Dots for Information 

You may have already noticed that hovering the dots on any of the four tables causes a small information box to appear. The white dots on the first row of each table represent the 66 books of the Bible by number. When you hover one of these dots the information box that appears reveals the standard book name. So hovering dot 22 will reveal the book title "Amos."

Any other dot you hover also displays the information box, but with the scripture address of that particular dot. You'll notice when looking at one of these scripture addresses that the book name is missing and there are three numeric sections instead of the usual two for chapter and verse. Actually the first number is just the book number, like 22 for Amos, and the second and third numbers, seperated by a colon (:) are the chapter and verse numbers. To use the first verse of the Bible as an example, Genesis 1:1 becomes 1.1:1.

Linking to Notes 

The last feature of the tables is the ability to link to the related notes page for any dot in the table. To read the scripture quote associated with any dot and any notes that have been written about that dot simply click the dot.

Most dots do not have a notes entry at this time, that will come, but those with a green highlighted background have notes entries and those with a pink highlighted background are "signature" dots with a notes entry.

Notes Tutorial

Traversing the Wall 

Control Panel 

Parchment 

Scripture Quote 

Notecard 

Postit 

Sidebar