New Blue Sheet

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I am not really impressed with the new set up.
It's harder to navigate and it is infested with adds .
Less information on each page and every one has an advertising pop up.
The pop ups are fine I suppose if you are viewing the public pages but subscribers shouldn't have to put up with the advertisements.

I had to reduce content on each page to speed everything up particularly for mobile users.

They're banner ads, popups are the ones that open in a new window - we don't use them. There are actually far less ads than there were before, the only difference is that we've moved them to the bottom of the page which I think is less intrusive. I agree with what you say about subscribers but some advertisers have pre-paid for their advertising so it wouldn't be fair to them to hide them from some viewers.

I will see what I can do about making the non-prepaid ads (the Google ads) disappear for subscribers.
Thanks for the two screenshots, I think that gives a clearer picture of the real problem which is that the ads consume too much screen real estate. I designed it on a 1080p monitor and neglected to consider how little content space there will be on 768p monitors, I'll see what I can do about that too.
In my haste in releasing this I forgot to do the grading photos, I'm working on them now.

[trout]

All is good Walter.
New stuff always need a bit of "Tweaking"

[ausproofs]

Hey Walter, I know it is more work, but could you maintain full site and a mobile enhanced site ? Reason being unless you use a touchscreen, it is harder to use the arrow / swipe to move to the next screen... I agree with the ads too... They are too intrusive .. Just my 2 cents worth !

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Hey Walter, I know it is more work, but could you maintain full site and a mobile enhanced site ? Reason being unless you use a touchscreen, it is harder to use the arrow / swipe to move to the next screen... I agree with the ads too... They are too intrusive .. Just my 2 cents worth !

The ads should be less intrusive now (I've increased content area) and made non-prepaid ads invisible to subscribers.

There is a mobile site but its designed for touchscreen. There was an old mobile site designed for non-touchscreen phones before but it wasn't very popular due to the general awkwardness of scrolling with the arrows, etc. I still however tried to make as much of the mobile site accessible on non-touchscreen phones, particularly the descriptive content but some parts of the site would be pointless, e.g. the photo gallery isn't particularly useful on low resolution screens.

[ausproofs]

Hey Walter, I know it is more work, but could you maintain full site and a mobile enhanced site ? Reason being unless you use a touchscreen, it is harder to use the arrow / swipe to move to the next screen... I agree with the ads too... They are too intrusive .. Just my 2 cents worth !

The ads should be less intrusive now (I've increased content area) and made non-prepaid ads invisible to subscribers.

There is a mobile site but its designed for touchscreen. There was an old mobile site designed for non-touchscreen phones before but it wasn't very popular due to the general awkwardness of scrolling with the arrows, etc. I still however tried to make as much of the mobile site accessible on non-touchscreen phones, particularly the descriptive content but some parts of the site would be pointless, e.g. the photo gallery isn't particularly useful on low resolution screens.

Thanks Walter, I think I didn't explain it correctly before.., I was talking about a desktop site for PC and a mobile site ( to work with touch screens ) ., current version of bluesheet is handy when used with an iPad etc. however if I was to use it on a pc (non touch) then clicking on arrows to get to things take time... UI/UX needs tweeting, that's what I was trying to say before...

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Hey Walter, I know it is more work, but could you maintain full site and a mobile enhanced site ? Reason being unless you use a touchscreen, it is harder to use the arrow / swipe to move to the next screen... I agree with the ads too... They are too intrusive .. Just my 2 cents worth !

The ads should be less intrusive now (I've increased content area) and made non-prepaid ads invisible to subscribers.

There is a mobile site but its designed for touchscreen. There was an old mobile site designed for non-touchscreen phones before but it wasn't very popular due to the general awkwardness of scrolling with the arrows, etc. I still however tried to make as much of the mobile site accessible on non-touchscreen phones, particularly the descriptive content but some parts of the site would be pointless, e.g. the photo gallery isn't particularly useful on low resolution screens.

Thanks Walter, I think I didn't explain it correctly before.., I was talking about a desktop site for PC and a mobile site ( to work with touch screens ) ., current version of bluesheet is handy when used with an iPad etc. however if I was to use it on a pc (non touch) then clicking on arrows to get to things take time... UI/UX needs tweeting, that's what I was trying to say before...

Ah I see, I struggled with that for a while - any suggestions on how it can be improved?

[ausproofs]

Hey Walter,

I would leave the old blue sheet website format as is + add some new things to make it faster for PC ( full website)... Then the new blusheet is perfect for touch screens(mobile version)... I will think about this more when I have some time and give you more feedback...

[ausproofs]

Okay, finally got an opportunity to play around with the bluesheet site...( used my iPad to test)

Good -

1. Love the search function. It would be helpful if you have a bit of a blurb around what can be searched as it is not obvious how to look for certificates and you can search by year and denomination  ... I tried it the search function and absolutely love it !

2. It looks much better with less intrusive adverts at the bottom.. Would be better without them, however someone needs to pay for things so you have to accept it as fact of life :yahoo:

3.  Price layout and information around coins are good.

4. Like the idea of a "portal" to get a single integrated view to have both blue sheet and the auction information relating to the user in one place.. Well done.

Things to improve

1. When you are on a specific coin page, "home page" is hard to find. I figured it out.. But I live with mobile sites day in day out... So I am not a typical user.. It would be harder for other users to navigate

2. On the iPad, the next button on the screen doesn't come up.. "Pushing the page up"  is the only way to navigate through the site. Again not a typical motion used to navigate through pages... May be change that to a "swipe" it keep it consistent with normal iOS or Android OS would help ? Or just arrows ?

3. May be best to have the full menu (what you have now under your logo) to permanently have a navigation bar on the left had side of the site ?

These are some very quick observations I have made ... Overall functionality of the site is very good... However UI/UX need bit of improvement to get it from good to great...

Again these are my 1/2 cent worth !!!! (Hope you will take this as constructive feedback ! )....

:wavemulticolor:

[echidna]

I cant find where to access to the photo library.
Also the banner adds are still coming up sometimes...
I have a silver subscription I think.

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Thanks for your feedback ausproof, I've been very busy lately and haven't had a chance to add your suggestions yet.

echidna, in each coin page (just click the date to get to the coin, or search in the top right to go straight to the coin page), go to the last page (using the arrows in the top-right, or by swiping down on a tablet or phone). It isn't available for all coins however.

[echidna]

Thanks for your feedback ausproof, I've been very busy lately and haven't had a chance to add your suggestions yet.

echidna, in each coin page (just click the date to get to the coin, or search in the top right to go straight to the coin page), go to the last page (using the arrows in the top-right, or by swiping down on a tablet or phone). It isn't available for all coins however.

Nope cant find any grading photos at all.
Can you give an example please.

[trout]

Nope cant find any grading photos at all.
 Can you give an example please.

The grading photo's are there but there are NO PCGS/NGC cert #'s anymore :ok:

[wwwww]

Thanks for your feedback ausproof, I've been very busy lately and haven't had a chance to add your suggestions yet.

echidna, in each coin page (just click the date to get to the coin, or search in the top right to go straight to the coin page), go to the last page (using the arrows in the top-right, or by swiping down on a tablet or phone). It isn't available for all coins however.

Nope cant find any grading photos at all.
Can you give an example please.

Oh they aren't the grading photos, it's the photo library (which is only on gold subscriptions). I still haven't completed the grading photos.

[ausproofs]

Thanks for your feedback ausproof, I've been very busy lately and haven't had a chance to add your suggestions yet.

echidna, in each coin page (just click the date to get to the coin, or search in the top right to go straight to the coin page), go to the last page (using the arrows in the top-right, or by swiping down on a tablet or phone). It isn't available for all coins however.

No worries Walter, also noticed when a PCGS or NGC certificate check is done  the coin values don't come up anymore. Not sure that was taken off or missed ?

[trout]

I still haven't completed the grading photos.

No worries, I have found this feature very handy in the past to detect "crack outs" :good: