Web page check please (Title change)

I posted the following on my thread "The Terarchies and the London mint" earlier this morning at 11:10 am PST.

As of 7:30 pm PST today my Stat Analysis program reports no visits to that page today, and, of course no replies to my thread posting here. I only asked for some help. Edited bad statement out

 

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I thought I posted to your earlier thread. In fact I have your page bookmarked for research. I know you asked for feedback, but I could not provide anything more useful than what the page already contained.

 

Impatience, on your part. That's an intense thread, with copious information. I've been following it, and commend your excellent work. But you only posted that update 8 hours ago, and I've been working all day and only started reading the forum just now.

 

We'll, If it makes you feel better I just went to the website. As to actually reading it, maybe tomorrow dude. I worked pretty late today and I'm beat. Your webpage looks interesting, but I am tired.

 

Well sorry for no responses on your thread I don't believe it was either apathy or antipathy just lack of time, overrun by other threads posted and not seen, not pathetic don't call it that because that's rude could've been anything you don't know (there's a million reasons, dont call a forum and the people on it pathetic for an accident, lightly say "any information is helpful guys thanks" and sombody will most likely answer you if not wait a while and create the thread again). well here's my feedback. Good site informational but a sore to the eyes make some feel like I'm taking a hard core test and with that font makes it feel too old and somthing that I sent want to read try a different layout fo your page and a different font of a type. There you have it my feedback.

Thanks,
Jacob

 

@jamesicus

Personally I wanted to give it it the time it deserved and I did not have that until now. I have been updating my own webpage today and working from home as well.

The site is very informative and well put together. I respect the amount of research that went into this undertaking. What I appreciate most is how well organized it is. It has an internal logic that makes sense.

It is a serious site with some very good scholarship. It is dense, which is not a critique, so it takes a while for the reader to unpack it.

 

I know that you are only speaking for yourself, John, and I respect the fact that you have many commitments. However, I resent you lecturing me on impatience. I didn't expect anyone to read all the updated information. All I asked for was a visit to my page hoping for a few reports on how it appeared and functioned -- similar to the thirty so responses in a couple of hours garnered by @Orfew when he posted his "My new blog on Ancient coins" thread yesterday. It only takes a few minutes. Perhaps I didn't explain myself clearly.

 

My apologies sir, I didn't intend to sound like I was lecturing you. I do look forward very much to reading your page, but it will have to wait until tomorrow.

 

I'll stay out of this........

 

Besides, it's late. Good nite dear fellows, good nite.

 

Thank you for that nice reply @Orfew -- you got the essence alright. I should have stated that I was mainly interested in opinions relating to the appearance, organization and function of the page rather than the content. You addressed that very well @Orfew. I should have mentioned that I am heavily committed to Web access for People with Disabilities and so all of my pages are designed to function optimally in Screen readers and assistive devices (such as JAWS) for blind/deaf blind and those with respirator dependent Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy -- in addition to normative graphical Browsers such as Safari, Opera, Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft I.E. ...... et al.

BTW, I think your new Blog is excellent.

 

You are right @Youngcoin -- I apologize -- dark senior moment. I have erased that in my post via Edit.

 

No apologies needed, John. I understand.

 

I must have missed your call for feedback on your thread. I might have been distracted by all the tetrach coinage eye candy perhaps starting a new thread (I suppose like this one) would help drive more traffic for feedback?

The site is very well laid out and the content is very good as well. I will need to give some more time to reading through and absorbing to give any more substantive feedback.

I am currently working on a pair of write-ups/articles for Diocletian and Constantius Chlorus and so I will be visiting your site quite a bit over the next few weeks.

Cheers!
Curtis

 

Thank you for that nice reply @Curtisimo (the Great)
And cheers to you in return, Curtis.

 

For those interested please visit my web page: Web Content Accessibility (WCA)

 

The more specialized a topic is, the less general interest it will garner. However, the main reason why you received no quick replies to the original post on your other thread is that it was post #79 on an old thread. Older threads just get fewer views than new ones... even when there are new posts added on to it.

When I'm short on time, I always click on new or recent threads first. Whether or not I eventually go back to the older threads to look at new messages posted there depends on my interest level in the original topic (and the case on CT is that often, newer messages may already have veered very far away from the original topic).

Anyway, I think your page is excellent resource for anyone interested in coinage of the Tetrarchy. Many thanks for writing and sharing it.

 

I'm with zumbly on this. When time is rushed I look at the original post date and go for the recent ones first. I have a bad attitude about posts resurrected after several years and often skip them altogether. I would prefer CT software lock threads after a period of, perhaps, a year or at least challenge posters with a message that warns they might not want to post there. Then the ones that are legitimate updates might not get thrown out with the ones repeating something back on an earlier page. We all have our pattern and our schedule. I'd say half the questions I ask never get a reply ("nice coin" and "I don't know" do not count). It is the way forums work.

 

I'm with Zumbly and John Anthony on this.

At work I sometimes check CoinTalk and might drop a quick comment on something or a "like". A new post tacked to an old thread will not be noticed at that moment. I might have to wait until the weekend. Because of your complaint I dug through the posts to find the new one and clicked over to your website. The tetrarchs page is superb and I've bookmarked it for future reference should I become more interested collecting in that era.

Look at how much attention this thread has already received, although that may be due to the antagonistic title, akin to "when did you stop beating your wife". New posts draw new attention. I think your old thread was the best place for the post but if it was so important to you that after only eight hours you felt the need to ask why no one had followed the link, perhaps you should have started a new thread after all.

Since the title of this thread is likely to generate more readers and clicks than the old thread, to save people the effort of trying to find the post it references, here it is:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-tetrarchies-and-the-london-mint.300003/page-4#post-2839047

And the link it contains is worth the click:

Tetrarchic coinage of the London mint

 

An impressive body of information, jamesicus! Thank you for sharing your research. Your enthusiasm is inspiring!