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<p>[QUOTE="Gil-galad, post: 2275714, member: 44154"]I've said and have been working on a personal website for a year or more, mostly not working on but I have made a lot of progress in the last few days that I decided to have a preview. I also have a decent camera which gives me a little more motivation to work on my site.</p><p><br /></p><p>The site is plain, fast and economical for bandwidth usage which may be ideal once I find a place that will host my site. I haven't decided where the site is going but I'm positive that I can find a place. This site has been hand coded by me using nothing more than Notepad and the specifications for HTML 4. I've never used HTML 4 before, so it is a good time to learn it. If you know the older specification for HTML, version 4 should be easy to learn.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could have used one of the many free and paid for online website editing and hosting places, but decided not to. Because I wanted to learn HTML 4 and I just feel more comfortable coding a site by hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]454043[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I am using a image snapshot because I don't have hosting yet and it's all files on my hard drive somewhere. This is the index and starting point, with a easy to use navbar to the left. The Plautilla coin displayed here is one of six in a random image generator JavaScript.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picking a name for a website doesn't seen easy for me. I decided to go for the Ancient Whitesheet for the time being. Always open to suggestions for a name but I may stick to what I have now. Who knows.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]454045[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is of course a links page which included links to a lot of websites. Also sections for YouTube videos, forum sites and reference site links, and my own photo gallery sites.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]454046[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a sample of my coin galleries. I only have a limited number of coins but enough to browse through. I have a few fully developed galleries that I am linking to on this site. For example, I have 15 Roman Imperial, 7 Roman Provincial, 1 Roman Republic, 2 Greek, 4 Byzantine, 7 in the other region category. I feel that is enough coins to browse though. I am planning to add a few more Greek and especially Roman Republic coins because I have so few of them currently. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course I'm going to be working on the site and improving it because sites always seem to be under construction, more or less. I want to leave the navigation style as is because it is so easy for me to get around the site and hopefully for other people as well once I decide it's complete enough to release.</p><p><br /></p><p>My plans are to finish tweaking the general design until I get it where I like and then to start writing some basic articles. It's very difficult to figure out any ideas for articles because by now, just about everything is covered elsewhere on other great websites.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I hope you like the preview. Please keep in mind that it's very new more or less.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gil-galad, post: 2275714, member: 44154"]I've said and have been working on a personal website for a year or more, mostly not working on but I have made a lot of progress in the last few days that I decided to have a preview. I also have a decent camera which gives me a little more motivation to work on my site. The site is plain, fast and economical for bandwidth usage which may be ideal once I find a place that will host my site. I haven't decided where the site is going but I'm positive that I can find a place. This site has been hand coded by me using nothing more than Notepad and the specifications for HTML 4. I've never used HTML 4 before, so it is a good time to learn it. If you know the older specification for HTML, version 4 should be easy to learn. I could have used one of the many free and paid for online website editing and hosting places, but decided not to. Because I wanted to learn HTML 4 and I just feel more comfortable coding a site by hand. [ATTACH=full]454043[/ATTACH] I am using a image snapshot because I don't have hosting yet and it's all files on my hard drive somewhere. This is the index and starting point, with a easy to use navbar to the left. The Plautilla coin displayed here is one of six in a random image generator JavaScript. Picking a name for a website doesn't seen easy for me. I decided to go for the Ancient Whitesheet for the time being. Always open to suggestions for a name but I may stick to what I have now. Who knows. [ATTACH=full]454045[/ATTACH] This is of course a links page which included links to a lot of websites. Also sections for YouTube videos, forum sites and reference site links, and my own photo gallery sites. [ATTACH=full]454046[/ATTACH] Here is a sample of my coin galleries. I only have a limited number of coins but enough to browse through. I have a few fully developed galleries that I am linking to on this site. For example, I have 15 Roman Imperial, 7 Roman Provincial, 1 Roman Republic, 2 Greek, 4 Byzantine, 7 in the other region category. I feel that is enough coins to browse though. I am planning to add a few more Greek and especially Roman Republic coins because I have so few of them currently. Of course I'm going to be working on the site and improving it because sites always seem to be under construction, more or less. I want to leave the navigation style as is because it is so easy for me to get around the site and hopefully for other people as well once I decide it's complete enough to release. My plans are to finish tweaking the general design until I get it where I like and then to start writing some basic articles. It's very difficult to figure out any ideas for articles because by now, just about everything is covered elsewhere on other great websites. Well, I hope you like the preview. Please keep in mind that it's very new more or less.[/QUOTE]
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