My New Roman Coin Web Site

Congratulations on publishing your website. Love the home page design!

Wow you are deep! Swords, Cactus, Historical Writing, and a few great pages on ancient coins! It is great to create such a legacy this way and perhaps you can pay the website host for a great many years in the future and this stays static for people to access for generations. I think about this a lot as I have 30 years of exams and notes for Chemistry and truthfully once we leave the office from some major life change I have seen so many other professors stuff in the hall wasted. Countless hours of neatly thought out problems all gone. All we have left forever is our publications for research. We should all think about legacy this way of what we have learned. Well done!

Blancasdad:

Thank you for your nice comments - I am glad you like the Home page layout design -- makes my effort worthwhile.

Louisvilleskyshop:
My goodness you really captured my essence! Yes, it just seemed such a waste to allow seventy years of research and study just crumble into dust -- and a lifetime of Calligraphic renditions fade away. Now all of that material is preserved on flash drives -- one hundred and twenty web pages and over fifteen hundred images!

And it has been an enjoyable and fulfilling enterprise. I taught myself how to write HTML and produce web pages. It only costs me about $110 per year to maintain my domain name and server space -- I spend more than that in tips at restaurants in a couple of months. Money well spent! And I have unlimited storage and access for my pics.

Life is good for an old guy like me!

It's almost ironic how the prospect of oblivion can stimulate productivity, and how opportunities missed can lead us to nostalgia. Jamesicus, you have stimulated us to take a look at how we are sharing what we have gained, and that is most worthwhile. Thank you.

As for your website, I think you have made good use of the three part page layout popularized by Wordpress. Are you using that for this site? My only regret is that it is mostly a site about Roman History for which the coins are a jumping off point. It will probably get more use by classics students and history writers this way than it would as a detailed study of coins, but anything you can do to discuss the coins qua coinage would be a great boost for numismatists. By all means, stay with it however you wish to move.

lrbguy:
Thank you for your insightful response and excellent comments. I do provide coin image galleries for identification and attribution.

I code all of my pages by hand -- I have found all of the "canned" code generators do not produce documents that meet the requirements of W3C Accessibilty for people with Disabilities (WCA) of which I am a staunch advocate, or Interoperability across all rendering devices, especially screen readers. My Web Page writer's Tool Kit (free) is at: http://jp29.org/index.php

James, excellent Nihonto web page. I wanted to do something like that for years but don't have the time or skills to do something as nice. Your photographs are outstanding, it is very difficult to photograph the Hada and Hamon let alone to be able to capture the nie and nioi.