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Luke Preview
Posted on Monday, February 26, 2007 at 1:32 AM by Jason Barker
Development for the Luke Bible study is progressing, but problems prevented me from uploading the completed first chapter last week: the graphics software for my Mac has still not arrived, forcing me to laboriously go back and forth between operating systems for almost every task. Combining this with learning some of the different ways in which I need to use Director in the Mac - as well as simpy the vagaries of life - and the launch for the Luke application has been pushed back to this week.
To give you an idea of what the Luke application will be like, I've uploaded a couple of screenshots of a typical article page (in this case, the biblical text of Luke chapter one). These are shots of the same page: the difference is that in the first the main navigational menus are closed, whereas in the second shot they are open. Click on the graphics to open a full-size version of the picture:
Image 1: Screenshot with navigational menus closed.
Image 2: Screenshot with navigational menus open.
The title of the application is "The Journey: Travel with Jesus Through the Gospel According to St. Luke," and the graphic design theme is travel related. Thus, the elements on each screen are designed to look like travel-related paraphernalia: tickets, postcards, stationary, maps, Polaroid snapshots, etc.
At the top of the screen you will see two things: a compass (which is there simply as a decoration) and the main navigational menu, which is designed to look somewhat like an airplane ticket. The main navigational menu links to six indices: Bible chapters, main commentaries, the commentaries of St. Cyril of Alexandria on the Gospel, articles about Orthodoxy, life application articles, and handouts.
The main section of the screen has five objects, four of which are active. On the left you will see a yellow stickie note, and below that a Polaroid-looking graphic of St. Luke. The stickie note is where brief explanatory notes about the text will appear: for example, clicking a hyperlink about Herod in Luke 1 will bring up a brief note like you see here (there will not be hyperlinks in the biblical text itself; I simply included the explanatory note for this preview so that you can see what will appear there). The Polaroid-looking graphic is where photographs and illustrations will appear: clicking the arrows at the bottom of the "photo" will allow you to scroll through the photos for that page. When reading the main commentary, these images will be illustrations of the scenes depicted in the text, as well as photos or illustrations of locations mentioned in the text. When reading life application articles, these images will primarily be photos of members of Teen SOYO.
In the center of the screen is the main document for that page (in this case, the biblical text of Luke 1). The document is intended to look like hotel stationary: "The Journey" logo appears in the left corner, while the standard street address is replaced with identifying information for the chapter and a link back to the Orthodox Christian Bible Studies homepage.
On the right side of the screen you will see a postcard, and below that a map. The map is simply there as decoration. The postcard, however, contains important buttons related to that document. The top button will enable you to return to the home screen for the application. The second button will enable you to return to the homepage for that particular chapter of Luke (in this case, the homepage for Luke chapter 1). The third button will enable you to return to the previous page you viewed. The fourth button (which for copyright reasons will not actually appear on pages containing the biblical text; I simply included the button in this screenshot so that you could see it) will take you from the application to a simple HTML copy of the article for printing.
On the bottom of the screen you will see a wallet with a stickie note protruding from it: it is intended to look like a wallet carrying an array of tickets or slips with travel info. This is the navigation for the articles for that chapter. Thus, clicking the "Bible Chapter" button in this case would take you to the biblical text of Luke chapter 1, etc.
This gives you a glimpse of a somewhat typical page in the Luke application. Keep reading this blog, because the Luke application REALLY IS COMING!
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