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So logos.com isn't such a bad site after all...

Back when I was on staff at East Hill Church and looking into buying bible software, Logos was the Rolls Royce of the various software options. It had all the bells and whistles, but was also the most expensive. I never looked much further than price...

I ran into bible.logos.com the other day, and my first impression is that it works more nicely than biblegateway.com. One of the things I spotted was this continuous scrolling that it uses.

Want to read through Galatians? ( I do. ) In biblegateway.com, you'd have to click 'Next chapter' to jump between Galatians 1 and Galatians 2. Want to scroll backward from Romans 1:1ff into Acts 28:31? Biblegateway: no way. Bible.logos.com: No problem.

So that's cool - but they also do this other handy thing:

http://www.logos.com/reftagger is a service that notices bible references in your website and shows the bible verses on your site. You stick a bit of javascript into your blog, and all the plain text bible references on your blog turn into links, pointing to that bible verse on bible.logos.com.

So I'm about to install reftagger. If it works ( and I think it will... ) you'll see that the bible verses referenced above are 'live'. Let's head to the workshop and see if reftagger works as advertised...

Update:

The reftagger thing works like a charm. So I type Romans 1:1 in plain text - I didn't link it or do anything. The reftagger script I just added to my blog makes that plain text into a link.

If you want to add reftagger to your blog, the instructions for blogger.com can be found here.

Visit the reftagger.com site to find other tutorials for installing it on other blog systems, regular web sites, etc.

So there's your weekly biblegeek-fu for ya.

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