A New Look for Bible Design Blog

Housekeeping
Written By J. MARK BERTRAND

With an incredible amount of help from web developer Honza Pokorny, a longtime reader of Bible Design Blog, the site has migrated from Typepad to Wordpress and taken on a cleaner, more user-friendly look. Every post and all of the many comments contributed since the blog's beginning in 2007 have been transferred. There may still be a few kinks, which I will work out as we go forward. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the new site. For a long time, I've been frustrated with the aesthetics of the old site. It's not easy writing about good design when your blog looks like an example of the contrary. Working on the new Bible Design Blog has been inspiring. Now the look and the content are more harmoniously aligned.

The feature I am most excited about is the new category drop-down menu. During the transfer process, I re-cataloged the site's content, adding categories for translation, publisher, binding style, format, and color. Now you can sort posts by any of these criteria, making it easier to find what you're interested in.

If you're hooked up to the Bible Design Blog RSS feed, you will probably need to re-subscribe. (I know some readers reported problems with the old feed; I trust Wordpress will handle that process better.)

Most of all, I want to thank Honza for his tireless programming work. I would not have been able to do this without him. We all owe Honza a debt of gratitude. So, thank you!

 

J. MARK BERTRAND

J. Mark Bertrand is a novelist and pastor whose writing on Bible design has helped spark a publishing revolution. Mark is the author of Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World (Crossway, 2007), as well as the novels Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds, and Nothing to Hide—described as a “series worth getting attached to” (Christianity Today) by “a major crime fiction talent” (Weekly Standard) in the vein of Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin, and Henning Mankell.

Mark has a BA in English Literature from Union University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an M.Div. from Heidelberg Theological Seminary. Through his influential Bible Design Blog, Mark has championed a new generation of readable Bibles. He is a founding member of the steering committee of the Society of Bible Craftsmanship, and chairs the Society’s Award Committee. His work was featured in the November 2021 issue of FaithLife’s Bible Study Magazine.

Mark also serves on the board of Worldview Academy, where he has been a member of the faculty of theology since 2003. Since 2017, he has been an ordained teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. He and his wife Laurie life in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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