January 2013 - New home page structure, and Crawford RRC-based illustrated catalogue.

This new home page is the most significant update since 2009, and addresses two major improvements, in the structure, indexing and navigation aids of my home page, and in introducing a Crawford RRC-based illustrated catalogue of Roman Republican coins, directly on this website rather than accessed via my photo database on Flickr.

First, the home page index system has been redesigned around the different forms of content on the site, coins, book reviews and articles, regardless where this content is stored on the various web-pages of the site. Hence if you are seeking a book review or information about numismatic books on a given topic, these can be found by scrolling down to the book review section of this home page or by clicking on this button:

From time to time I have added specialist articles in various places on my website, usually associated with the theme of a particular web-page. Sometimes these articles have been difficult to find at a later time. So I have listed all these articles on the home page, and they can be found by scrolling down to the specialist article section of this home page or by clicking on this button:

At regular intervals since 2009 I have also written short personal commentaries on the home page, in the form of a blog posting that I updated every few months, and the text I am currently writing is typical of such postings. Over time these have caused the home page to extend more and more in length. So I have now moved these older postings to a dedicated commentaries web-page. I will continue to write the most recent postings direct on my home page but all older posts can be found on the blog page, also available by clicking on this button:

Whilst the content of my existing web-pages remains unchanged, I am retiring the historic index system which arranged my web-pages according to themes. The theme-based pages became, over time, too complex. However I have replaced these with a full listing of my current webpages, with a brief indication of their content, at the bottom of my home page (i.e. just above this commentary section). I also include direct links to my Flickr photo-sets on this page and on every other web-page on my site.

Second, there is a new presentation of coins of the Roman Republic, arranged strictly by Crawford RRC number, with photos shown to the correct relative scale and with my commentary. This new presentation can be found at the top of this home page broken into 20 sections arranged by RRC number. Each page within this new presentation includes the index to all other sections of the catalogue. A key feature of this presentation is that all the photographs were taken against the same size background, so it is easily seen that all coins are exactly to scale. The first page covers Early Roman Coinage and the last, twentieth page covers the Battle of Actium and its coinage, with the history of Roman coinage unfolding between the two sections. The photos are shown in large dimensions, as per examples below, and the click-throughs lead to enlargements double this size. So these new web-pages will make the most of your fast broadband and high-density pixel displays!







Andrew McCabe, January 2013.