TIP of the day: interactives - Before and After: Bible Sites

1. This interactive is opened in the standard manner - tools, library or command box. The first page has thumbnails of the available sites.

2.Selecting a element brings up a panel with an Overview option which takes you back to the preceding panel. The Back arrow with takes you back to the preceding panel. A description of the picture; word in blue within the description are linked to factbook. Followed by several action items. On a mouse over on a Factbook label the standard brief description for the place is given.

3. Clicking on the Factbook entry will open Factbook.

4. Mouse over the reference gives you the preview of the biblical reference in your preferred Bible.

5. Clicking on the reference will open you highest priority Bible to the passage.

6. Mouse over on the media brings up a description.

6. Mouse over on the image technical information pops up a message informing you that clicking will bring up the image in Visual Copy.

7. Clicking brings up the actual Visual Copy.

8. Grabbing the white bar on the slider allow you to slide the reconstructed "before" overlay over the current image. As a farmers daughter I notice that the fields retain the same number of plants in rows with the same orientation for multiple millenia ... or one could say that only the archeological site itself has an overlay.

9. The fade slider allows you to control the contrast between the current image and the overlay.