Thoughts on the Way Home

Monday, October 20, 2008

RefTagger: A New Feature on the Blog

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Over the past several months, our readership has grown tremendously and we now have about seven people reading the blog (give or take a few). In light of our popularity, I thought it would be a good idea to introduce a new feature to keep our hungry readers coming back for more. The new feature is called RefTagger, and is put out by the people at Logos. RefTagger is a nifty little program that causes each verse reference in a blog post (as well as in the comments section) to automatically become a hyperlink, which means if you click on it, it will take you to a webpage which will then display the verse or verses. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! In addition, you can simply hold your cursor over the verse reference, and a little balloon will pop up, displaying the verse for you without having to go to a separate page, unless the verse(s) are too long to fit in the pop-up balloon. In that case you will have to click on "more," and it will take you to a page showing the complete verses.

To demonstrate, go ahead and put your pointer over these verse references:

Eph. 1:1-3

Rom. 8:28-30

John 1:1

Pretty neat, eh? I think this is a fantastic feature, and I hope it makes reading our blog all the more profitable for the seven people who do. You know who you are . . .

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