A New Beginning….
Posted by Geoff Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:30:00 GMT
Things have been pretty quiet around the eBible.com blog for the past couple of months. But do not mistake the tumbleweeds and the quiet whistle of the west winds as a sign of inactivity, for there has been much brewing in both the eBible.com camp and behind the scenes at Godspeed.
First of all, we’d like to thank those of you who responded to the eBible.com survey. I’ll have the iPod winner to announce in a few days, so stay tuned. We’ve learned a lot in our preliminary look at your criticism and praise, and will be implementing many of your suggestions in future releases. Which brings me back to where things are at with eBible.com.
1) Godspeed just bought out the joint partner in eBible.com to gain full control over the development of the site and the direction that things take. Now that we are in a position to do so, we want and NEED your help to make eBible.com everything it can be. We’re pumped about the changes you’ll soon see with eBible.com. We appreciate your patience, and thank you for all your support.
2) We have moved the site to a state of the art accelerator/container facility solution from TexDrive where the very best web 2.0 websites go to get supercharged. So what does this mean to you? Over the coming weeks, you will begin to notice improvements in performance (speed) and positive changes to overall stability. In a nutshell, blistering fast search results and improvements to all areas of the site’s performance will be gained through this transition. We heard you all loud and clear with your requests to increase the site speed and we hope to deliver on this very shortly.
3) We are launching a series of eBible.com subscriptions that will allow users to have instant, full time access to some of the best selling Bible reference content, in addition to other top secret benefits that we can’t share with you quite yet…
4) New Bible translations. With commitments to several new Bibles, we are happy to announce a rounding out of the available translations for Bible search with more to come as well.
5) Changes to the user interface. We have worked to just give you the search results when you type in a verse instead of returning the result in context which took more time to load. While this in depth, contextual mode of study is of course still available, we listened to your feedback and moved it to not be the default step after you type in your Bible verse. Just click “Study” to go deeper into your online Study Bible like before.
While these are just some of the highlights, we wanted to get in touch with everyone and give you the straight goods on where we are at and what everyone can expect in the coming days and weeks.
