So I've been playing with another concept for a web site over the last few months. I'm a Washington Quarter enthusiast....1932-64 is my favorite period, and when I need to I give love to the clads up through 1998. Although the Statehood quarters pulled me in to serious collecting, that series is my least favorite in the Washington Quarter family. The State Parks have appealed to me somewhat and I've attributed that to the uniformity of the reverse designs. Anyhoo, unless I've completely missed it in my searching, I wanted a Washington Quarter site that was similar in function as the lincolncentresource.com web site. I central place to pull in all possible resources along with educational information about the series. A place where I could share what I've found, a place to bring the experienced WQ collectors to help contribute to the site, and a place where a beginner could come and be overwhelmed with real and reliable information about the WQ. This is totally a personal project for me. An ulterior motive is that it's facilitated my learning of the series much more substantially than just reading books and articles. I learn by doing or seeing. Learning doesn't really sink in for me until i put it in to action or create work where I have to really learn and know what I'm after. It's safe to say that putting this together, for me, creates multitudes of opportunities to hone my collecting skills in all facets and not just the Washington Quarter. That's why I'm going to continue with my idea. Its no where near being what I want it to be, I'm still working with the design, the layouts, and the way the information is presented. I'm positive there are spelling errors out there and improvements which can be made. But, I'd love to hear what people think about it and also if you are interested, I'd love to find contributors for the site; WQ collectors would be interested in every once in a while creating and contributing web site content about the Washington quarter, either numismatic type content or just sharing an aspect of their collecting of the Washington quarter. Anyway, if I still have your attention, here is the link to the site. The ultimate name and URL will be www.washingtonquarterresource.com, however I'm in the middle of acquiring that domain name and the current URL is http://wqr.hankinsfamilyonline.com
I'd be happy if I could just see images of the various doubled-die obverses and struck-over mint marks about ten times larger than they appear in the Redbook.
Doug, most of what i have so far regarding DDOs and DDRs and such is in that Variety menu to the left. And most of what I plan to have there will be just links to other sites where the pics are. MOst of that work has been done and those guys (Wexler and Whiles from Variety Vista) copy right their stuff. But...if someone wants to contribute those larger images then I'd be happy to post them. The more content that is local to the site the better.
Thats good to hear. I wish I could take full credit, but I'm using a platform called Joomla. Its a free open source PHP\CSS platform which makes it pretty easy to work with. There are plenty of free templates\themes out there...its just a matter of fining one that works for what you want to do. I like this one because I could use righteous pictures of Washington quarters on the front page. I too like the colors, fonts and design. Thanks for the input.
I also like the template you chose because it's clean. Not cluttered. Easy on the eyes to find "stuff".
WOOT!! domain name is now completely functional, no more redirecting! http://washingtonquarterresource.com/
I think the vast majority of coin collectors have OCD. I think 100% of error and VAM collectors have OCD. I think 95% of CBH collectors are OCD. It's a prerequisite to becoming a serious collector. Caveat: I've been accused of having OCD myself...lol.
