My Website Is Ready!

I ditched IE a long time ago. For one, you might as well say it's integrated into Windows or your desktop and naturally prone to picking up malware. Not only security issues, it's slow, bulky and has a bunch of features I wouldn't ever use. Maybe other people do and that's fine.

And on further thought. Another reason why I haven't made a site for my coins is because I still have a lot more to learn about ancient coins. Although, sure, you can learn as you go while you design a site.

Once again, good job on making the website.

Write it in ASP.Net using a database to catalog your coins. Then all you have to do is add new coins to the database and then you don't have to update the pages directly.

ancientcoinguy wrote:




Strive for interoperability -- make your page viewable and usable in any graphical Browser: MSIE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc.

Here is a brief "how to" I wrote:

http://jp29.org/create.htm

Good job

I have no training with code writing but never use fancy commands or software that writes code for you. I don't know Javascript which is used on your internal page I linked above but it works. The question is why Chrome and Firefox display your home page with one photo and internal pages with characters in languages I wish I understood (did I even see the Nagari symbol for 100 in there?)? I do not claim my code is better. Your Constantius page reminded me of my grading page which shares the simple layout:
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/do.../grade2.html

You can pull up the source and see the code but if you don't read plain brown wrapper html like I don't read Javascript that might not help. Mine does run on IE (just checked for the first time in years), Chrome and Firefox. I have not checked Opera or other browsers for years either.

Another suggestion that is just an opinion: Every page should have navigation links as part of the code of that page. Your Constantius page must have been displayed by a Javascript parent but when I hacked into it by reading its name from your source code, I was unable to return from it to your home or any other page. If everything works (meaning if I ran IE) that is no problem. It makes no difference how those links are done. My pages have a banner and a word link which makes them look so old fashioned that professional code writers laugh at them but my intent was not to dazzle with web design but to transmit numismatic information to as many different computers as possible. I have to give IE some credit in that they retained backward compatibility to my old fashion code which was a lot closer to acceptable in 1997 when I started that site than it is today in the days of dazzle. That is my suggestion. Your design and layout is neat and simple - exactly what I like in informative pages. I regret that you wrote it is such a complex language that it can not be seen except by users of one browser when it uses none of the fancy features that made them abandon compatibility in the first place.

Trivia: In 1997 I wanted to learn html I collected coins and discovered the WWW was weak in sites on ancient coins so I started one. My intent was to use coins as a subject of no importance while I was training in html Before long I discovered that I was not cut out for web design but was having a blast explaining my hobby to beginners who, like me, were not thrilled by what was available online on the subject. I stopped trying to learn new HTML tricks about a year after I started. The mapped image on my home page was the most complex thing I did and probably what convinced me I was never going to be a coder of ability. It took me another 5 years to run out of things I wanted to say on coins when I stopped updating. Since then I keep telling myself that I will do new pages but the desire to write them now is lost to participating in CCF and other coin formats. I hope you will continue to write your page and spread the word on the hobby.

I can hand-write code on Notepad as that's how I learned to do it back in 1996. However, my biggest struggle is trying to figure out a design that I like, that would fit the subject at hand very well as well as being my own design and not copied from somewhere else. I actually did that one time, used a frame design and modified it the way I liked. But it wasn't really my own design from scratch.

YoungAncientCoinGuy => eventhough I am an engineer and I'm supposed to Rock at computers and engineering thingies, I'm a bit daft at creating websites, etc ... however, I love sites that look and act like your website

=> simple as pie, quick and easy!!

I admit that there are some pretty pimped-out web-pages out there, but I find your style/format extremely easy to navigate and very efficient for listing your inventory

... and although some of the fancier, "look at me go" type of web-sites often look a lot prettier, they can sometimes be less efficient at listing what you have, alphabetically, etc (in other words => old school format) ... very little bling, lotsa effciency!!

=> I'm giving your site "full marks" ... it was fast, efficient and easy to quickly determine your inventory ... well done, my coin brother, well done!!