Ernie: To keep everything as simple as possible, let me say that I want
"a blog with a layout like Bart Ehrman." Guess you never read Ehrman, not "Erdham," who is probably the most important Bible scholar alive today, or certainly the most popular, the most widely read, with one best-seller or near best-seller, after another. Maybe for some topics a more relevant Bible scholar would be someone like Rbt Eisenman or John Dominic Crossan, but Ehrman is right up there with the very best. I happen to disagree with him almost as much as I agree with him; but, damn, all his questions are excellent questions and the most important to ask. "with similar types of content" WTH??? My guess is that you never cracked even a few pages of my book. My content is nothing at all like Ehrman's stuff. It is completely different in every conceivable way. To try yet again to make this clear, I simply passed along the reference to Bart Ehrman's site because the layout is close to what I am after. Maybe it would have been better to have sent a reference to a non-religious secular site (computers, a small business, sociology, whatever) but I am a religious scholar -a scholar of religion- more than anything else and reference to the site of a theologian is kind of natural to me. To put it differently, say the word "religion" to some people and they immediately think: "What do you believe?" Say the same word, religion, to someone like me and the question, instead, is "what do you study empirically?" What you believe is implied, and sometimes may be the basic question, context tells you which is which, but ordinarily "religion" means "subject of research interest," or the history of a religion including the bad stuff about a religion not only the good stuff. Anyway, let's pretend that I actually referred to a site by someone in the software biz or someone who runs a clothing store. Maybe that will help a little bit. However, what I would like to include is a Table of Contents, with two chapter titles highlighted so that visitors to the site can choose to read either (or both) of those chapters to get a sense of the book. The Table of Contents would also include the contents of the Appendix, with most of the "chapters" of the Appendix highlighted so that readers can access that material if they so desire. Yes, I want to sell copies of the book but more important to me is getting a brush fire going, that is, getting people talking, getting the information "out there," generating "buzz" and, hopefully, a lot of controversy. Anyway, if you think a phone call would be useful, OK with me. Just let me know approximately when you might call so that I can be awake at the time, or at home and not running errands. cheers Billy ________________________________ From: Centroids <drer...@radicalcentrism.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 2:54 PM To: RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com Cc: Billy Rojas Subject: Re: [RC] Idea for website Hi Billy, Does this help make things clear? Not really. For a website design, the most important aspects are: - structure - content types - layout It sounded like you want a blog with a layout like Bart Erdham, with similar types of content. If you are okay doing -exactly- that, we can figure out what tools to use, how much it would cost to build, and how to train you. If you want to use one aspect of his layout for content like you describe, no problem. If you are saying you want to -change- that design to add another editable sidebar with a new type of content, that would be a lot more effort. Does that make sense? Or am I using too much jargon, and we need a phone call to align on terminology? E -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to radicalcentrism+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
