I started working on a small project - actually it's going to be a LOT of work - of making a website showing my dansco album. The goal is to make it look as close to how it looks in person. eventually you will be able to click on the smaller pictures of the coins and it will open a page supersized images of the obverse and reverse of the coin along with specification and maybe a trivia fact. It will also have all the pages and you will be able to flip through them just like if you had the book in hand. I know it's not very far along yet, but let me know what you guys think of the idea I hope I'm not breaking any forum rules, but here's a link to the page: http://newplace.site11.com/7070/
I love it! Though I would like to see one thing if possible. When you click one coin, I would like to see the coin blow up to a larger picture of obverse and reverse.
I guess you didn't try to click on the 1958 wheat that's the only one that opens a supersized picture. if you then hover over it, it flips to the obverse. Although, the website runs very very slow at certain times, but that's what I get with free web hosting haha.
Business opportunity If it were possible to conveniently buy an empty virtual album and conveniently place my own coins into it, then I would probably spend some money & buy some virtual albums.
I could not get the reverse to pop open. It is a nice set. Of course you could add a nice brown wheat and memorial to get them all matching.
haha, one of the whole points of this project was to be able to just snap another picture of a coin and replace it in the virtual page. But you still have to be able to take quality pictures, and crop them properly and mess around with a line of code for it to work properly. Towards the end of the project I'll spend time making it as easy to use as possible, and I will probably let other people use it.
there's still certainly a few bugs with older browsers, and on IE especially. I'll get those taken care of eventually.
business opportunity When it is perfected so that properly formated photos may be browsed & placed into the album, you could sell it. You are welcome to give me a beta copy for testing.
Making some great progress on the programming. It now looks a little more like a book, and it has a second page. I also made some adjustments, now all you have to do to make a coin appear in the right hole is crop the image to the appropriate size, and name it, for example "coin14_s.jpg" for the slot 14 coin (that would be the steel cent). I'm quite proud of my accomplishments so far However, I will not be keeping the online version up to date until I am ready to release the template, it's just slows down my progress.
It looks stunning! Bravo. If you hadn't said it was virtual, I would have thought it was a real, physical album.
