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09-Feb-2010
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Testing Account
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They say that simplicity is the height of sophistication - I find the new layout much more complex to navigate with too many hierachical steps required to look at similar coins. For example, with Shield Reverse Full Sovereigns - why have 3 pages when you can have 1? Also, the enlarged navigation buttons are so large that I find myelft having to scroll down all the time.
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10-Feb-2010
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Walter Eigner Numismatics
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I agree with what you're saying, and as it is it seems overly complex, but the new design was designed to cater for an expanding field of coverage. The depth of decimal coins (once we expand into them) would see the home page expand greatly just to cover them in their entirety if we left it as the old system was.
As it is, the Blue Sheet shows two levels of depth per page, e.g. the first page shows Australian Gold and it's category children, if you click on Half Penny, you'll see it divided by both rulers and the types. This halves the amount of clicks needed however any further increase of depth visible will see page length increase dramatically (and wouldn't decrease the amount of clicks for pre-decimal coins).
To cater for this, we introduced the "Find a Coin" link on the home page which allows you to type the date of the coin and it will find all matching coins for a simple 3 click to any coin interface.
The enlarged navigation buttons was the best solution we could come up with to both show the image of the coin (needed for new or non-collectors to find their way around) and some basic information about them. At minimum they needed to be the height of a crown (39mm) with some room for margins, so while we could have cut down on the width, we couldn't work out a stylish way of achieving this (considering that target viewers would be reading the Blue Sheet at various display resolutions, we would have to have catered for a dynamic screen width to avoid left-right scrolling).
A lot of thought did go into the design and this was the best we could come up with that both supported easy navigation, and our own ideas of expanding the guide.
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09-Apr-2010
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Question for you - I notice your MS penny values are all for MSRB - can any general assumptions be made about MSBN coins? Can I assume they are worth a little less?
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09-Apr-2010
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Walter Eigner Numismatics
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Slightly less, but keep in mind that the RB grade represent the lowest possible RB, so it's not far off a BN grade, the difference will be for RD designated coins which will command significant premiums. In future I plan to add values for RD also and BN designated coins also.
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