Normally I reserve this blog for my theological musings, but today I'm pretty excited about the major back-end overhaul of The Daily Verse Online website over the last couple days. To get The Daily Verse Online back up and running after a year sabbatical, I've spent the last two weeks writing Daily Verses and working on some of the technical aspects of the site.
Unlike previous website overhauls, very little has changed in the way of appearance on the DVO site. But behind the scenes, things are a lot different. For those of you tech-minded people, here's a summary of the goings-on:
-->I've switched to a new hosting company, which both greatly reduced operating costs and streamlined a lot of the webmaster tasks that I have to do.
-->The DVO site is now updated via an RSS feed. Previously, in order to put each new day's Daily Verse on the site I had to manually edit the HTML code. Doing that every day got very time-consuming and tedious. Now all I have to do is copy and paste the Daily Verse straight into a blog post, which in turn is connected to Google's Feedburner, which then republishes it on The Daily Verse Online site. A lot of coding and fiddling with settings went into that change, but it will probably save me a good ten minutes every single day. Yay!
-->Because of those changes, you can now subscribe to The Daily Verse Online via RSS at http://feeds.feedburner.com/DailyVerseOnline (for those of you who like RSS feeds). What you'll get in the RSS feed will be the same thing you get by subscribing to the email or visiting the website.
-->This blog finally has its own subdomain on the DVO site. The address of the DVO blog is now blog.dailyverseonline.org. Much easier than the previous Blogger address.
-->RefTagger has come to The Daily Verse Online! Starting today, on both the blog and the main site, if you put your cursor over any Bible text reference (for example, 1 Peter 3:18), a little box will hover right there on the page giving you the entire text of the verse. How cool is that? A shout-out to the Logos.com team for there awesome RefTagger code is definitely in order here.
-->A new email server. The email address is still the same (dvo@dailyverseonline.org), but it's now being handled by the new hosting company. This is still in progress, so the site's email might be down for a day or two. I'm hoping that everything is working by Monday.
Well, there you have it. My most technical blog post ever, and a little glimpse into what goes on behind the scenes here at The Daily Verse Online.
God bless!
Brendan Beale
The Daily Verse Online
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