With the rewrite of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Project (in 2011) much of the old information on this page became out of date. At the time of writing this, no testing of the rewrite has been done in Internet Explorer or Opera. Firefox has been the primary browser, with Konqueror and Chromium used to check that layout and formatting remain somewhat consistent. Explorer and Opera will get tested in the next few months when my computers are unpacked, but on the current results with the browsers above it is most likely that Internet Explorer, Opera, and other browsers in the market, will work equally well.

With this rewrite, it was decided to make the hyperlinks the same colour as the text. Exceptions to this are determined on a case by case basis; the ‘Notes’ are an example, where the links are presented in a slightly darker shade of Dark Green, so as to clearly differentiate the links from other underlinings, and to make the links easier to see. Regardless whether the link is underlined, or whether it is ‘hidden’, all links will change color to red when the mouse cursor is hovered over them. ‘Hidden’ links will generally be found in the Paragraphs, or elsewhere in the Holy Text, where the normal underlining of a link would, in this one’s opinion, be ugly, detracting and lacking aesthetics; Sacred Text is a thing of Beauty, and it’s presentation should likewise, where able or possible, be presented with beauty. Otherwise, links are underlined for easy recognition.

The ‘Table of Contents’ page is the main entry point. The left column will be recognised as that found on the page of the same name in the hardcopy version. The right column has been added, and provides additional means of accessing the sections of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. These new items are primarily indices; access can be made by the number of the Paragraph, Question and Answer, or Note, as well as by their opening words, plus an index of paragraphs related to each other is also available. Also new are the entries that lead to the English dictionary, to the Related indices, to decisions, guidance and advice from the Universal House of Justice, and the index to the compilations so far included in the Project.

Some simple but useful navigation is also provided as standard by every browser, while the Project supplies a limited additional means of navigation (see below).

As well as the ‘Forward’ and ‘Back’ buttons found in most (if not all) browsers, all the browsers in which the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Project has been tested use the same key-strokes and mouse actions for basic navigation, as follows:

In the popup windows, either use of the right-click with the mouse, or of the alt+arrow keys, or use of the toolbar button are available to access the ‘Forward’ and ‘Back’ functions of the browser for previously visited pages. The toolbar button, depending on how you have it set up, will also allow the contents of the pop-up to be printed.

In addition to selecting links via the mouse, they can also be selected using the keyboard – use the <Tab> key to move to the link, and the <Enter> key to activate it. At each press of the <Tab> key, a dotted line will be seen to move from hyperlink to hyperlink, indicating the link that will be active when the <Enter> key is pressed.

As well as the usual selection of hyperlinks to navigate from place to place, there have been links added to the bottom of every page, in text format with a border. In cases of longer pages, this ‘menu bar’ has also been placed at the top of the page. With this rebuild, the positioning of these links from page to page shopuld remain consistent. Thus, left one page and right one page will always be found, where they exist, on either side of the ‘menu bar’. The link to the Contents page should always be found second from the right. The remaining two will vary according to one’s place in the project, but should remain logically and reasonably consistent, whether with a link or showing blank.

An issue with the addition of links from the Holy Text itself is to not affect or alter the esthetic's of the Sacred Word; i.e. to not mar the Text with underlinings/hyperlinks or other text “decorations”. Thus, a word that is linked to the dictionary will (or should) only be seen when the mouse cursor is held over it, when it will change from normal text to red text and the mouse cursor will change to the users' choice for a hyperlink - this is a link to the dictionary itself which, when the word is selected, will generate a new small pop-up window containing the definition.