zhubert.com -- Tutorial Functional Description

3.2 Tutorial

NOTE: the tutorial should be considered obsolete. A new tutorial should be developed after the rest of the new design is complete. The new design will be driven by the contents of this document outside the tutorial. The new tutorial should reflect the form of the new design.

The tutorial page [DEACTIVATED!] greets the visitor and presents a list of links to tutorial pages. Each link has a pithy comment beside it. Each of the tutorial pages has a top link home and a bottom link back to this tutorial page. In the following list of tutorial pages, objects described by each page are in brackets [ ].

NOTE: most of these tutorial pages have been copied to a vault directory for your reference. The filenames have an appended .htm extension. CSS URLS in the files have NOT been changed from the original -- so it won't look the same. Because the main tutorial page has been deactivated, the names of these pages had to be guessed at and many were found. Three pages were not found and are marked UNKNOWN.

  1. tutorial-prologue
  2. tutorial-font
  3. tutorial-open-bible [bible page]
  4. tutorial-grammar
  5. tutorial-word-detail [word page]
  6. tutorial-book-detail [bookdetail page] [booksstudy page]
  7. tutorial-word-search [word page] [word selection box] [searchhelp page] [asearch page]
  8. tutorial-concordance [concordance page]
  9. tutorial-parallel [bible page]
  10. UNKNOWN [Creating your own translation]
  11. tutorial-betacode [betacode page]
  12. UNKNOWN [Oops, an error!]
  13. UNKNOWN [Oops, an error! Pt. 2]
  14. tutorial-usage [usage page]
  15. tutorial-custom [bookmark page] [customize page]
  16. tutorial-xml [XML interface]
  17. tutorial-daily [javascript, flash, google daily passage ]
  18. tutorial-chooser [remote passage chooser]
  19. tutorial-remote [flash remote interface plugin] [new interface full screen page].
  20. tutorial-credits

Lower level tutorial pages which are linked to from inside the tutorial include:

Independent tutorial pages that are linked to from outside the tutorial include:

3.2.1 Prologue

The tutorial-prologue page answers the following questions:

NOTE: included within this last item should be an explanation of why Martin Luther said what he did. I'll include a synopsis here because it is analogous to what is happening now, in these last of times.

A great door to enlightenment opened in 1453 and Martin Luther’s generation was the first to truly benefit from it. What occurred in 1453 was the fall of the Roman Empire -- the official end of the Medieval era. The Muslim Turks had acquired huge cannons (some sources say be Papal approbation and Venetian assistance) to use against the great walls of Constantinople. But before the walls were breached, monks and scholars emptied the libraries of the city and distributed the manuscripts to monasteries throughout Europe. When the Roman Empire's side was pierced and it died, light was spread into the darkness of Western Europe: men could study the scriptures and the works of the early church apart from the stifling dominance of the Catholic masters. This was the opportunity Martin Luther was talking about.

The light shed by this opportunity touched off the Protestant Reformation, the Renaissance, the Ages of Discovery and Reason, freedom, scientific advance, modern technology and global civilization. The fathers he mentioned were Western Europeans, descendants of barbarians not knowing Greek. If they even thought about reading the Bible in the original languages, they were burned at the stake as heretics by the Catholic church. Latin only was allowed. And even this the laity was not allowed to read nor to learn to read. Millions were killed in the subsequent repressions by the Catholic church.

Protestantism is indeed a direct heir of Greek Orthodoxy.

3.2.2 Downloading the font

The tutorial-font page explains about needing the proper fonts with diacriticals and uses a few screen shots. It mentions Gentium and Code2000. NOTE: It should also mention DejaVu which is the Ubuntu font.

At the bottom it has an additional link to the tutorial-custom page.

3.2.3 Opening the Bible

The tutorial-open-bible page directs the viewer to go to the bible page by using either the Read the Bible link in the main toolbar or the Bible Browser verse selection box at the top of the left sidebar. It then points out a few things about the bible page by using screen shots:

NOTE: This tutorial page is really obsolescent and needs updating to include all the features of the bible page!

3.2.4 Grammar Aid

The tutorial-grammar page describes a non-existent panel of links in the left side bar.

NOTE: THIS PAGE IS OBSOLETE AND SHOULD BE DELETED. It also blocks segue from the previous and next pages.

3.2.5 Exploring a word

The tutorial-word-detail page describes how to click on any bible page verse word link in the bible page verses and bring up a word page which is a bible page word detail page, which is a little different than other word detail pages. It has the following URL variables: word, root, number and has many features that are not specified in this tutorial.

NOTE: this page should come right after "Opening the Bible" and its contents synced with the actual functionality of the page it describes.

NOTE: to enhance usability, the word page should open in a new window.

3.2.6 Book Study

The tutorial-book-detail page describes how to click on a book title link in the bible page and bring up a bookdetail page with the URL variables: book, source. This tutorial page has a link to the book detail page which supplies the variables ?book=Ephesians&source=greek so the user can see an example. A screen shot is also provided, which shows

An alternative way to access a book detail page is to use the book study link in the left side bar study menu. Clicking on this link will access a bookdetail page without any URL variables provided, so the page will present a form with a book select drop-down list to select a book to submit as an URL variable. A link to the booksstudy page is provided to do an analysis of all books. NOTE: THIS PAGE DOES NOT WORK!

NOTE: there is more functionality in the bookdetail page which is not covered here.

3.2.7 Searching for a word

The tutorial-word-search page describes how to use the Word Finder form in the left side bar to transmit a variable to the word page. This variable may be in one of the following formats:

The tutorial-word-search page also recommends using the browser’s address bar to type in the word page’s URL with GET variables. These variables are word and root. They must both be unicode and they may be used in the following ways:

NOTE: the tutorial explains about the difference between Unicode and Betacode but omits the other formats.

It has links to the searchhelp page (NOTE: THIS PAGE DOESN’T WORK!) and to asearch page, the advanced search page.

3.2.8 Using the Concordance

The tutorial-concordance page directs the viewer to go to the concordance page by using an old non-existent link -- the current link is the Concordance link in the main toolbar. It then points out a few things about the concordance page by using screen shots:

NOTE: THIS WHOLE PAGE IS OBSOLETE

3.2.9 Adding books in parallel

The tutorial-parallel page directs the viewer to go to the bible page by using either the Read the Bible link in the main toolbar or the Bible Browser verse selection box at the top of the left sidebar. It then uses screen shots to point out how to create parallel displays of verses from additional books. There can be multiple side-by-side displays.

Near the bottom of the page is the chooser form from which to select the source text. The Add button is used to add book verses in a parallel display, each of which has separate navigation at the bottom of its column and tandem navigation below that. You can remove parallel displays with the Hide button.

NOTE: THIS SHOULD BE PART OF THE tutorial-open-bible page OR BE RIGHT AFTER IT FOR SMOOTH SEGUE. We all like cohesive data -- right? Furthermore, it is not accurate and must be updated.

3.2.10 Creating your own translation

TODO: finish up this page.

3.2.11 The Betacode Converter

The tutorial-betacode page has a link to the betacode page and describes its use and how it can also be invoked by the converter link in the left side bar extras menu.

3.2.12 Oops, an error!

TODO: finish up this page.

3.2.13 Oops, an error! Pt. 2

TODO: finish up this page.

3.2.14 Usage

The tutorial-usage page describes how to use the usage link in the left side bar extras menu to bring up the usage page which has bar graphs that display site usage statistics.

3.2.15 Customizing this Site

The tutorial-custom page explains the following customizations that you must be logged in to do and how they are performed:

To go to a bookmark click on the bookmark link in the left sidebar study panel. To set a bookmark click on the book,chapter,verse heading link in the bible page.

For translations see the above tutorial Creating your own translation.

For font customization click on the customize link in the left side bar extras menu.

3.2.16 XML Interface

The tutorial-xml page explains about using the XML interface.

It has links to two sites which use the XML interface -- the Scipturizer (link) and The Coding Humanist (link) -- and a link to a Wordpress implementation of it. NOTE: THIS LINK IS BROKEN.

3.2.17 Daily Passage

The tutorial-daily page describes the following ways of obtaining a daily passage of the GNT from zhubert.com:

The tutorial-daily page has at the bottom an additional link to the tutorial-remote page (which follows below anyway).

3.2.18 Remote Passage Chooser

The tutorial-chooser page describes adding the remote passage chooser to a web page by using javascript.

3.2.19 Remote Interface

The tutorial-remote page describes adding the flash remote interface plugin to a web page with an embed. It also has at the bottom an additional link to the new interface full screen page.

3.2.20 Credits

The tutorial-credits page is composed of three sections acknowledging the work done on the following sources:

NOTE: There are more sources, such as Strongs, Perseus, etc. These should be acknowledged with a fuller description of what the sources are and how they may be accessed and obtained.

3.2.21 Lower Level Tutorial Pages

Pages that are linked to from inside the tutorial include:

3.2.22 Independent Tutorial Pages

Pages that are linked to from outside the tutorial include: