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Welcome to the Drupal version of bible.org.

We've converted to the open source Drupal content management system to take advantage of its features especially in the language area as we work to serve Christians on across the globe. As a result things will work a little bit differently now. (FYI-Watch a 1 min video on what is Drupal) Below are some tips to finding the information you want quickly and enjoying the new features at the new and improved bible.org.

Here's a list of different servers/sections (these are the same as before and we will provide links off  the main site)

Using www.bible.org

1. The Top Toolbar

   The Top toolbar contains links to the major site areas and is self-explanatory. Usage statistics showed that most people went directly to list articles by author, passage or topic. Those are still there and work the same.

To find information in a more systematic theology manner, choose by Topic in the List Articles toolbar on the top of your screen. This will provide you with a robust list of topics of interest in effect replaces our old table of contents.

2. The Topics Toolbar

      The Topics Toolbar has special links to a couple of our more popular sections of content: The Theology Program, and the Choose the Life program. And this menu will grow a bit as we add things we want to highlight.

3. Using Topics for getting around.... 

We would like to expand our list of topics/key words so one can better find relative content. To do this we are going to implement an automated machine tagging engine and community tagging of our articles which allows logged in users to tag articles with topics/key words. All of our articles have some topic/key word tag(s), but maybe we were too seminarian when we tagged the article and assigned it to the topic harmartiology and forgot to also add the topic sin! So, you can help us out and add that for us. ( to assist in community tagging you will need to be a registered user)

4. Viewing Greek and Hebrew in documents:

  1. to see if you have the fonts needed to view greek and hebrew. Go to the NETBible study tool
  2. Then Go to the Fonts link on the top bar you will see a table of fonts in the format as shown...
  3. Compare the  font symbols your computer produced in Column #2 with the font symbols in Column #3. If they are not identical you need to download the NET Bible symbols so your page display properly on Bible.org. (This is important!)
    #1-Font Name #2-Your machine produced these

    #3-Picture of what the font should look like
  4. If your fonts are not identical you need to download and install additional  Fonts:

 

5. Users helping one-another

For additional Help, add your question on the comments below and other users can answer. We will as we have time move the questions and answers to here (If your would like to volunteer to help build this help page . It would be nice if we could produce a good video screencast with the free program screen toaster. Any one interested? Let us know in the comments field below or preferably fill out the volunteer application form .