Tagging Text for Site Search

[MathewBartlett]

Hi, I'm a novice web developer, and a "theologian!" (I write Bible comentaries). I'm creating a site which show cases my free Bible commentaries, you can view it at http://www.biblestudiesonline.co.uk . You'll see how I have Bible verses listed, followed by an explanatory comment.What I need is a way to retrieve the Bible verse and its comments instantly when a user searches for the verse e.g. enters Luke 1:1 in the site search box, and gets that verse & comment. It would be especially useful for mobile ipad users etc. Is Dreamweaver the product I need, or is there another solution? Any ideas from you experts out there? Thanks.

Mathew

[markerline]

I'm a novice too and coincidentally just got finished reading Galatians 3:9-11.

Anyway I think it might be something to look at the "meta" tag which houses keywords that search engines in the past once used (I'm not sure if the meta tag still plays a role in SEO).  However, regardless of whether the meta and keywords are still used by search engines on the internet, it could be possible to code the search engine on your site to look for tags that are contained on the pages of each Biblical verse.  This is only postulating but I'm thinking it could be done this way.  There must be other more efficient means of using scripting to achieve what you're after.

Best,

-markerline

[Guest]

Typically when you are searching, you are searching through a database for a match, so if your trying to allow your visitors to find which verse contains a certain sequence of words, the database would be searched.  It would not surprise me if the bible was available in database form, you would then need to write a script that your commentary would be matched with the results.

HTH

Gary

PS On Edit

Try looking here

http://www.biblesql.net/