Website Updates – January 2025

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTH

Quick Summary of the Biggest Updates this Month:

1. MOBILE and DESKTOP – Search is now collapsible and fully functional with Exact, Topical, and Song results!
2. BLOG live!
3. GOALS Publicized
4. Substantial Donation <3

HOPEFUL HIGHLIGHTS by End of January

1. 2000 more songs! 30% of all 31,102 Bible Verses should have matching songs
2. Thesaurus and Theme Suggestions, to connect Searches/Songs more in-depth, providing depth and breadth to every Search
3. Concert Video/Photo Blog’s – Joshua Aaron, Verses Project, Scripture Hymnal, Citizens, Sungaze, Fury and Solace, Laity

Daily Tasks explained in detail at bottom.

Jan 16th-28th

• A dear friend surprisingly knocked on my door last week and offered to supply a new setup for building the website and social media for Every Verse. I’ve been a tech guy from a young age, building my own systems for cheap; but this will be a larger budget than I’ve probably had in all 23 years combined. What a blessing and encouragement! After about 20 hours of prayer, research, and discussion to ensure it would be effectively and wisely used, here’s the tentative conclusions.
• Priced out systems cost effectiveness for benchmark power, to get the sweet spot shown in this spreadsheet, if you’re going for no frills value build or refurb, the cost per 1k benchmark (CPU+GPU) should be about CAD$20-25 taxes/shipping in. Thanks to passmark.com.
• Also in preparing, saved money on some 10 year old reject monitors without stands, and built my own mount, they could use some angling if I’m able to find some cheap mount pivots.

Jan 15th

• Debug Song Match – 20m
• Integrate Song Match on Every Verse in Results:
  • Clean Song Database – 30m
  • Prepare Database Matches – 30m
    • Matched 3497 Verses to Song!!!
    • 2937 Unique Verses Covered
    • That’s 9.5% of the goal of all 31,102 verses in Song 😀
    • Still have about 20% more nearly ready in offline database
  • Code additional song display – In Progress 6h 20m
  • 16th – Integrate Song Match on Every Verse in Results: 2hr, hopefully finish Monday

Jan 14th

• Search – Collapsible Results – 17h – Finally almost perfect on Mobile/Desktop!!! 😀
• Site – Debugged – 30m
• Blog – Merged Old Blog – 20m
• Admin – Organize Priorities – 1h

Jan 13th

• BLOG LIVE!!! – 12hrs
• Database protection – 15m
• Total Searches Stat NavBar & Stats – 25m
• Fixed Search Term Counting – 15m
• Updates – 45m

Jan 10th

• Prevent Hits Counter Reset – 20m

Jan 1st

• Blog Prepped

January Items In Progress:

Item	Priority / Completion / Time – Est. Date
Mobile compact scrolling & display	✅ / 95% / 17 h – 01/14/25
Thesaurus for Suggestions	70 / 70% / 15 h – 01/21/25
Song Match – Integrate to Verse Context Pop-Up	80 / 80% / 12 h – 01/15/25
Fix Blog NavBar	60 / 70% / 03 h – 01/20/25
Blog collapsible Menus	40 / 40% / 02 h – 01/31/25
Add 2000 more songs	65 / 70% / 20 h – 01/31/25
Clean Up Interlinear Book/Chap Buttons	50 / 10% / 03 h – 02/14/25
Update New Song Blog List	40 / 60% / 20 m – 01/15/25
Update New Song Blog List – Past	30 / 00% / 04 h – 01/31/25

Item – Long Term	Priority / Est. Time – Est Date
Multi-Tab Viewing / Recent History	60 / 00% / 30 h – March
Verse Pop-Up on EV Study	40 / 20% / 02 h – March
Audio Bible Integration	20 / 00% / 12 h – Sept.
Add Spotify/Apple Music Support	35 / 10% / 20 h – Feb.+
Blog collapsible Menus	40 / 00% / 02 h – Jan 31
Concert Video/Photo Blog’s – Joshua Aaron, Verses Project, Scripture Hymnal, Citizens, Sungaze, Fury and Solace, Laity	40 / 20% / 06h – Jan 31

Details:

Jan 14th – Mobile compact scrolling & display – Used ChatGPT and Gemini in 2 different chunks. First made a simple page with just Exact Matches results, perfected the functionality, then tried to get it to duplicate across the whole page. The perfections go easy with the simple task, then trying to implement in a complicated page takes time, but eventually, got closer and closer, both AI’s have similar strengths and weaknesses, but they compliment each other a bit when you’re stuck programming PHP, JS, HTML, and MYSQL.