If a coin site was set up like this how annoying would it be.. or how patient are you

mrdq · March 9, 2004 12:36PM

Two images have to load then just move the mouse over the pic.

It'd drive ME nuts but i'm on a 28.8 dialup (country living, aint it grand). I like the design trick but from a "net surfer" point of view is loading 65k pics too much or what?

nederveit · March 9, 2004 12:42PM

I can empathize with your slow dialup speeds, had to use a modem a week ago and it nearly killed me. My impression is that many are on high speed connections to the internet, possibly from work or home. Might be a good time to take a poll? I thought the way the coin was imaged was very cool, and this type of pic is a mere hiccup on a high speed line.

coppercoins · March 9, 2004 12:47PM

Your 65K pictures could be trimmed considerably both in pixel size and compression rate. Those could easily be brought down to 30K without much loss in clarity. That would help.

As for the effect (probably Javascript) it would be a good idea to check and see that it works well in all major browsers, but I use the term "major" very loosely. I have had 470,000 page views on my site this month, and 454,000 of them were MSIE users. The rest were Netscape mainly, with a scattering of Opera, Safari, etc. my point is that browser compatability probably wouldn't be my major focus.

As to how it saves space on the scree, more power to you - good thinking. You might want to consider that some people like static pictures and attempt to give them a choice. Some people, believe it or not, can't figure out the rolling flip-over if their life depended on it.

I guess in the end I'm not giving you a definite opinion, more just some stuff to chew on and think about.

XpipedreamR · March 9, 2004 12:52PM

I'm not getting anything when I go to that site. It just says Welcome in the upper left corner.

mrearlygold · March 9, 2004 1:04PM

Hey Tom, I have comcast cable high speed which is far from the best I've used and the photo appeared in about a second and a half.

Rgrds
TP

XpipedreamR · March 9, 2004 1:09PM

Why am I not seeing anything? That's strange.

solid · March 9, 2004 2:15PM

Works fine for me, though I don't know that I prefer this approach vs. being able to see both sides simultaneously.

Personally, be it auction or whatever, I like being able to read about the coin and see a small photo, which I can
click on to enlarge if I desire. The enlargement can take the form of a new page or a popup - either is fine with me.

Just my two cents.

Ken

Prometheus183 · March 9, 2004 4:32PM

I like the fact that the pics were taken at two different angles. If you flip the curser on and off the image really fast, it's a great flashback effect. Reminds me of the old McDonalds Big Mac commercial.

mrdq · March 9, 2004 9:35PM

I saw this effect on a website a year or more ago. I'm JUST learning HTML and javascript and i've always wondered how this worked. The site i saw had all his morgans (much smaller, about 4 fit on the screen at a time) and you could scroll across them looking at front and back and clicking on either one brought up a bigger screen. If you're browsing many coins it's a quick "flip it over" idea with clickable options i just haven't got to yet.

Not any more efficient than just showing the front and back at the same time, but infinately more "cool".

BAJJERFAN · March 9, 2004 10:01PM

Took about a second to load with cable modem.

boiler78 · March 9, 2004 10:08PM

I am on a cable and like XpipegreamR I am only gettint the welcome in the upper left hand corner?

kranky · March 9, 2004 11:17PM

If you have Javascript disabled in your browser, it probably won't work for you.

Code looks simple enough:

<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- hide from none JavaScript Browsers

Image1= new Image(450,300)
Image1.src = "37.jpg"
Image2 = new Image(450,300)
Image2.src = "37rev.jpg"
function SwapOut() {
document.imageflip.src = Image2.src; return true;
}
function SwapBack() {
document.imageflip.src = Image1.src; return true;
}
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<A HREF="index.html" onMouseOver="SwapOut()" onMouseOut="SwapBack()">
<IMG NAME="imageflip" SRC="37.jpg" WIDTH=450 HEIGHT=375 BORDER=0></A>

Mark · March 9, 2004 11:30PM

mrdq:

I am very impatient...which is why I got a cable modem.

And, using my cable modem your site loads quickly--a LOT faster than, say, the Heritage site.

Mark

If a coin site was set up like this how annoying would it be.. or how patient are you

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