Idea
During one of his Thursday evening study classes, Mr. Dunbar mentioned that we should attempt to cross-reference everything in the Synopsis and Codification of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas to the verses, questions and answers and notes. I decided to start doing that.
After starting with the referencing, I realized that I had pretty much everything already in the database to put the entire Aqdas online. Even though there are plenty of sites available with the content, I still hope this site can provide something of use, mainly thanks to the search, cross-referencing and fullindex functions.
A big thank you also to everyone who has helped me out in one way or the other! (see bottom of this page)
/Borna Safai
Version 2
About six months ago, a couple of us got together to study the Aqdas again, with the aim of finding more connections in the synopsis to the rest of the text. As we got further and further into it, I decided that it was time to also do a re-design of the site, as there were a couple of suggestions I had gotten from friends on how to improve it.
Now, after a few breaks in between, I am finally done, and am very satisfied with the results. Besides more connections from the synopsis (900 vs 699), there are a couple of more additions: admonitions, concordance, and a paragraph summary. Hopefully, these will, together with the previous functionality available on the site, facilitate studying of the Aqdas.
As always, I am deeply grateful and indebted to everyone who has helped me out this time around again, both when it comes to the studying and updating the site. Without you all, I don't think I would ever have been able to "complete" (there's always more to do...) this project!
/Borna Safai
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Tips on using the site
Index
Click on the index term, and the page will show all the references of that term and all its children.
Search
Type in any term in the input box and the search will be made on verses, questions and answers and notes, as well as the titles in the Synopsis and Codification.
Synopsis and Codification
Click on the synopsis title and a page will load showing all verses, questions and answers and notes related to that reference.
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Contributors
Amal Ma'ani-Hessari
First page design
André Borud
Updated page design
BWC and ex-BWC Youth
Support and encouragement (you know who you are!)
Hanlong Wang
Helped out with some regular expressions
Jonathan Maloney-Lebensold
Helped with a bit of technical issues
Mike Wanush
A lot of help with regular expressions and search highlighting
Mr. Dunbar
Inspiration, encouragement, suggestions and help
Naseem Ma'ani-Hessari
Hooked me up with his dad
Parviz Deamer
A lot of brainstorming, suggestions, ideas and studying
Pat McCann-Smith
Sent me the admonitions
Paul Clark
Troubleshooting
Peyman Milani
Early comments, suggestions and thoughts
Sana Safai
Entered most (~90%) of the index
Travis Fields
Styling and design of version 2
Vivian Argueta
Study help, page design suggestions and evaluation
History
2009-05-06
We are live!!!
2009-05-05
Uploaded everything to test online, planning on going live tomorrow.
2009-05-02
After a lot of small things here and there, paragraph summary finally finished.
2009-01-27
All pages changed and fixed to the new layout and design.
2009-01-20
Fixed a few bugs in the search function.
2009-01-09
Completed connection of the notes.
2008-12-19
Added concordance for Questions and Answers section as well, now up to 3084 words and 11565 entries.
2008-12-15
Created a concordance with 2490 words and 8023 entries.
2008-12-08
Added the supplementary texts, all text now added.
2008-12-01
Admonitions page added and entered.
2008-11-24
Finished connecting the questions and answers.
2008-10-31
Completed the connecting of the verses.
2008-10-10
Started working on second version of the site.
2008-09-21
Began going through the entire set of connections a second time, this time with some help from friends.
2008-03-24
Updated the about page with copyright info and reference information.
2008-03-18
All synopsis headings now have at least one cross-reference.
2008-03-13
Passed 100 countries and territories, 3000 visitors and 10000 pageviews!
2008-03-11
Completely remade the search function, which now has a proper scoring algorithm.
2008-03-09
Announced the project and site to BWC, with subsequent spreading taking place.
2008-03-06
Announced the projet and site at Thursday Study Class.
2008-03-03
Changed the linking in the search and index results and updated the search function.
2008-02-27
Updated the search function, fixed highlighting on fullindex page and improved the layout on preface and description.
2008-02-26
Minor adjustments to the search and fullindex page. Also
posted about it on my blog.
2008-02-20
Made some minor modifications to the search page.
2008-02-19
Added a favicon.ico.
2008-02-18
The site is live, on theaqdas.org.
2008-02-17
More work on the search function, but still not there yet.
2008-02-15
Worked a lot on the search page, signed up for hosting and fixed a lot of design flaws around the site.
2008-02-13
Registered the domain, theaqdas.org.
2008-02-10
Added a contact page and fixed the div blocking for page.
2008-02-08
Fixed a simple search page and synopsis connections are almost done. Only 5 don't have at least one entry. Again, thank you Sana!
2008-02-06
Fixed search on synopsis, and general layout on most of the pages. Updated tips on using the site and idea sections in the about page.
2008-02-01
Fixed div blocking for page, and a minor bug in the indexing.
2008-01-30
Supplementary texts added and design fixed.
2008-01-23
Splitting in index working, and fullindex seems to be working now as well.
2008-01-21
Indexing done! More than 6000 entries! Just need to fix the linking and splitting over two columns, and then it should be really good.
2008-01-19
Search function is now up and running.
2008-01-18
We are close to 5000 index entries, mostly thanks to my brother.
2008-01-16
Added preface, introduction and description pages.
2008-01-14
Changed menu colors to darker top menu and light gray side menu.
2008-01-13
Got my brother to help me out with entering the whole index.
2008-01-09
Completely revamped the looks of the site.
2007-12-05
First
mention on blog about this project, but didn't refer to what it was.
2007-12-02
Index page created. Had been thinking about how to solve it for the past 2-3 days.
2007-11-29
Idea of project started in my head.
