Monday 18 February 2008

Freedom to choose

WordLive offers a large amount of content each day. We do this partly out of love, partly because we can, but primarily because we want to offer the user, you, the best chance of hearing God through the Bible. With this in mind we create different activities for each day, as displayed in the revolving carousel. (If you can't see the revolving carousel, then you'll need to install Flash from Adobe, it is a free plug-in, and makes WordLive even more alive.)

Wordive is built around a central Bible passage. This Bible passage is explored in the activities for that day... BUT you don't have to do everything on offer. Some of the activities will make the same point in a slightly different way, perhaps being more creative, more practical or in a deeper more studious way (it may even use long words). Some activities use music, others images, while others are more interactive.

The point is, there is a lot of material for each day, but you may not find all of it useful. Some content works better for some people while other content works better for others. Of course, you may want to click on everything and that is fine, but after reading the Bible passage, the choice is yours. You can do a little or as much as you like. WordLive is for you.

Wednesday 13 February 2008

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

WordLive gives you the Bible, prayer and various other items to help you get into the Bible. To help you, understand it a little more, to think over what it said and most of all catch a glimpse of God through its words.


One thing we noticed during our closed beta test was that after the day's Bible passage had been read, and you moved on to a different activity, you couldn't refer back to the Bible passage without closing the activity. This, we thought, and also a large number of you too, wasn't for the best. And so, being the caring souls that we are, we sweated night and day, thinking and creating a solution... actually it wasn't just the royal 'we', it was the rest of the the team at SU and also those lovely people at baigent, but we don't want to give them all the credit (okay, most of the sweating was from them). And that solution is now live on the site.


The first major update to WordLive is now there for you all to use. You'll notice a tab on the top, right hand side of the activity page that is titled Today's Bible Passage. If you click on this, the tab extends and reveals Today's Bible Passage, for you to read alongside the activity you are doing (not too difficult to grasp). Then if you click the little x in the top, right hand corner of the Bible passage window, the window closes. Voila, the Bible passage in all its glory, to be looked at alongside the activity you are doing.

This is the first, but by no means last, development of WordLive.

You talk, we listen and we do our best to improve your experience!