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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;philologus_1, post: 6943552, member: 92212&quot;]James, I am highly appreciative of your time and interest! And for your offer to help! I&#039;m afraid though that help would be like tossing pearls to swine. (To be clear: In that setting I am the smelly pig, and the information you have to share is valuable, precious pearls).&nbsp; I had to search online to even find out about what &quot;Style Sheets&quot; and &quot;CSS&quot; is, and it was over my head.&nbsp; I require more training than could be accomplished <i>via</i> messages. With my various obligations I barely have time to add coins to my website as it is, I don&#039;t have the day-to-day time it would take to learn all that it appears I need to learn.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is awesome! Your father was a wise man! When I was growing up my father was also wise, he made sure my brother and I could type. There was no HTML.&nbsp; I completed my undergraduate degree before Word Processors or computers were used to write/print term papers. We thought electric typewriters (with carbon paper of course) was high tech. After I was in the business world for a while, I went to night school to learn COBOL and BASIC.&nbsp; I used both to write programs for awhile, but then my career took a hard right turn and I no longer did any &quot;programming&quot; as it was called then.&nbsp; So, now, fast forward well over 4 decades, and that was me a few months ago wanting to start a website.&nbsp; BTW: I looked at all your links.&nbsp; Thanks for including them!&nbsp; Sadly, due to my knowledge level of such things, they are over my head (I&#039;m embarrassed to say). There are many things I know MUCH about, but this just isn&#039;t one of them, and as I mentioned above, I haven&#039;t the time to learn without falling behind on other obligations. </p><p><br /></p><p>Long-story short, after spending too much money to pay a custom web developer to create one, and having him bail out without producing a website, I next explored (with advice from a knowledgeable friend) several easier possibilities, and he helped me find a pre-existing template which I began to use. With only 10 coins added (and about 500 more to go) this is the current result:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.biblical-coins.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.biblical-coins.com" rel="nofollow">www.biblical-coins.com</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I have been hesitant to give the URL out yet because I more than half-expect to get comments in the following A-B-C format:</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;<b>A</b> good start...&nbsp; ...<b>B</b>ut...&nbsp; ...<b>C</b>ould you now also change/add ______&quot;. </p><p>And you see, actually, I am OK with the blog-like format it currently has.&nbsp; Pragmatically speaking, it works for my purposes to achieve my goals. Yes, there are a handful of things I myself would love to be different about it, but they are things that either cannot be added/tweaked, or, that I do not know how to add/tweak.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not sure that a clickable coin gallery, such as per the links included by previous posters in this thread, is something that can be added to the template I am using. (And to clarify, it is not a template I designed and &#039;coded&#039;, as I do not know how to do that. Instead, out of my necessity, it is a pre-written &#039;boxed&#039; template that I selected from a group of similar templates.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] - Your website helped me cut my teeth on ancient coinage as I made the big transition from US modern coins to ancients! And all your pages remains a helpful wellspring of excellent information! Thanks! Although I have not yet done so, my plan is to add a page to my website (which is something I&#039;m proud to be able to say I actually know how to do) which would be titled something like, &quot;Want to learn more about ancient coins?&quot;&nbsp; That page would include a very short list of links -- which I have always planned to include (if not feature) yours. When I get around to adding that page, I will PM you to seek your permission.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to ALL for your input!!! Once I get up to about 100 coins posted on the website, I will start a new thread on CoinTalk to officially &#039;announce&#039; it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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