Thanks to MidLifeCrisis....... I have added a Colonial page to my website

coinsarefun · July 24, 2009 12:05PM

Great information on Colonial coin collecting posted Thanks to MidLifeCrisis
He gave me all the information and images and I just played around with the layout and published it

btw..................if anyone else wants to contribute information and images I can publish it on my site.
Its going to be a great learning site.

LeeG · July 24, 2009 12:07PM

Very Nice! Mark's top notch!

savoyspecial · July 24, 2009 12:11PM

Mark knows his stuff

LotsoLuck · July 24, 2009 12:12PM

Great site your building Stefanie

Mid lifes write-up is superb! So many experts in their field here and it would be great to see more of the same. Keep up the good work!

NumisOxide · July 24, 2009 12:13PM

Great idea. Cool site!

coinsarefun · July 24, 2009 3:10PM

Thanks everyone. It was a great collaboration between Mark and me

MidLifeCrisis · July 25, 2009 12:31AM

It was a fun collaboration!

I hope the write-up is helpful to those of you who are considering collecting colonial era coins.

Swampboy · July 25, 2009 2:49AM

Great Stuff!!

Thanks guys.

SpaceMonkey · July 25, 2009 2:52AM

nice job guys.... keep it going!

-sm

Fletcher · July 25, 2009 3:00AM

May I offer a suggestion? When you post your images in the CU forums they look great .... however, on your website they look awful. Whatever you are doing to shrink down the image size of the coins on your website is ruining the images and makes them look very pixelated and jumbled. I used to see this a lot on websites 10 years ago and am not sure if it is the program you are using to resize, if you are resizing them with html code and the browser is making them look awful, or if you are resizing them in indexed color mode (gif or png) which does not allow for proper color blending when resizing. However, you have a great website otherwise and should find out what is ruining your images.

rgCoinGuy · July 25, 2009 3:09AM

Very cool website! I bookmarked it and will check it out more in the near future.

MidLifeCrisis · July 25, 2009 3:50AM

<< <i>Mid lifes write-up is superb! So many experts in their field here and it would be great to see more of the same. Keep up the good work! >>

I really appreciate the compliment. However, I'm not an expert. I developed long-standing relationships with experts and learned from them. Particularly ColonialCoinUnion and Pistareen for colonial era coins...and Julian Leidman and Andy Skrabalak for other types of coins. My knowledge comes from them.

coinsarefun · July 25, 2009 4:16AM

<< <i>May I offer a suggestion? When you post your images in the CU forums they look great .... however, on your website they look awful. Whatever you are doing to shrink down the image size of the coins on your website is ruining the images and makes them look very pixelated and jumbled. I used to see this a lot on websites 10 years ago and am not sure if it is the program you are using to resize, if you are resizing them with html code and the browser is making them look awful, or if you are resizing them in indexed color mode (gif or png) which does not allow for proper color blending when resizing. However, you have a great website otherwise and should find out what is ruining your images. >>

For some reason I'm not seeing what your seeing.
Does anyone else see it? If so I do want to fix it.

intence · July 25, 2009 4:34AM

Awesome website

SpaceMonkey · July 25, 2009 4:43AM

<< <i>

For some reason I'm not seeing what your seeing.
Does anyone else see it? If so I do want to fix it. >>

on some browsers (mostly PC's) they will not soften the image when you shrink it down... antialias.
to fix you would need to have the images the exact size you want.... ie... do not shrink at all in your coding program.

-sm

Fletcher · July 25, 2009 7:44AM

I am on a brand new MacBook Pro using the latest version of OSX and Safari ... if you are not seeing it, then, as SM says, it is due to image resizing in your html code which would require you to resize the images in photoshop and display them full res in the new smaller size. Here is a screen grab of what I see on your website ... normally, the pics that you post here on CU look perfect.

coinsarefun · July 25, 2009 11:08AM

<< <i>I am on a brand new MacBook Pro using the latest version of OSX and Safari ... if you are not seeing it, then, as SM says, it is due to image resizing in your html code which would require you to resize the images in photoshop and display them full res in the new smaller size. Here is a screen grab of what I see on your website ... normally, the pics that you post here on CU look perfect.

>>

I think I see what your saying.

I will take SpaceMonkey's suggestion and re size it outside of the web program and

Thanks for the help!

Thanks to MidLifeCrisis....... I have added a Colonial page to my website

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