Date Guide

[murphy]

Chuck, I saw your post on the PCGS forum about updating the Date Guide here. I checked it out and it indeed does go past the year 2002 now to 2006. Very good but, there's no links to varieties for those years yet. I assume it takes time to link each years varieties to their respective year on the Date Guide. You'll get around to it right?
I think keeping the "Date Guide" up to date would be important for this site as a lot of people, especially new ones, use it instead of using the "variety search" link that we all use. IMHO.

[coppercoins]

All you gotta do is use the links near the top of the page for the different die variety types. Those link to the varieties that exist if any do exist of that type. That's the way the date guide has always been.

[Dick]

Murph, I used the date guide for a while, until someone put me onto the "variety search" link. I too, wondered about the date 2002, being the latest, but considering all that goes into the updating, and the other things that go with maintaining a forum, that it would be taken care of in due time, so I use the "variety search" almost entirely. To me it is much easier, and faster. But, remember, I'm new, and there is much to learn, here. I haven't ventured to the other areas of the forum, so I don't know what all actually is available. Maybe a "tour for Newbies", might be in order, some day. Just remember, the thrill is in the search!
Dick

[murphy]

Is my screen the only one that don't have links to the varieties on the Date Guide pages for 2003 - 2006?

Try this Chuck; follow the links from Home to Departments to Lincoln Cents to Date Guide to 2003. And see if the top of your 2003 page has its varieties listed. Check Date Guide pages for 2004, 2005 & 2006 and see if they have their varieties listed at top of their pages.

[coppercoins]

Yup, I see what you mean...that part doesn't work, and I'm not gonna fix it either. Requires a lot of programming. Just wait for the new version of the site to come out when I get to it.

Problem is, I abandoned that programming years ago, and it's so sloppy I can't even read it any more. The database doesn't have current information in it for the years post-2002, and it's a mess too. It would take hours of programming just to fix a part of the site I abandoned years ago.

[murphy]

[coppercoins]

I do actually have bigger and better plans for the site, and just don't have time to delve back into my painful programming beginnings and try reading the hodge podge of code I wrote back then. That's essentially what I meant by that. What used to take me a thousand lines of code to write can now be done in less than 400...with minimal brain cell loss. I'd rather rewrite it completely than try to fix it.

[Dick]

"If f it ain't broke, don't fix it"!
It seems that until we are "linked" to the info we seek, all is lost. Then the link brings the enlightenment! Bless your links!
Dick

[murphy]

I understand completely Chuck. Reminds me of a car I once had that I didn't care to fix up. There were some things wrong with it, but what's more relevent, I had my eye on another car.