Question for website owners

[Chiefish]

[smithy]

That's a cool story...I always wondered how you came up with the name

[johnorun]

[faber]

[6a6ar09a]

@Chiefish

Nice story. It is always interesting to know what is behind uncommon names (nicknames).

@johnorun

Thanks. Bug will disappear after the testing period... a few days maybe. You don't need to worry

Website design was easy... but to prepare content... uh, so many things to do...

@faber

Thank you. Yes, I know, there is no compression at all. Just raw images. I have not decided jet if I will go with full colored images or to make them gray with just small colored detail, like this;
(now, you have less than 100K per page regarding items images)

[johnorun]

please keep the bug. It looks real!

[6a6ar09a]

OK, bug stay. Anyway, there is no god website that don't have at list one bug

[wepwawet]

haha, I like "misko"
Why is your site surrounded by google?
Do they sponser the webspace?

[6a6ar09a]

Yes, I always try to make something different... It is hard to make something that is unique after several billion of websites around. Notice (c) sign at the bottom of the pages, it is unique too. This is my favorite.

Regarding Google, my business is (partly) internet marketing. I use Google AdSence ads for several different reasons;

1. On every new website I define some space for marketing, credits... additional content (just like in newspapers, magazines... I believe you know that story...)

2. Google have very good targeting algorithm (they serve related ads)

3. They pay for clicks and even on low-traffic website you can get at least to pay for hosting and/or bandwidth... Later, if website start to receive huge traffic you can sell this space at much better price.

4. This is god way to keep track of what visitors like or not... (I am using Google Analytic tools as every-day business tool)

etc.

So, yes. You can say that Google is (in a one way) my sponsor for small start-up websites.

BIG THANKS for your "egg" picture!

[Mixeur]

Very good start !
Actually, you do not seem to need advices...

I think you know but search is not working well. You should update the search fields with consistent values once at least one of the other fields are selected.

[6a6ar09a]

Hi Mixeur, thank you for suggestion.

Advices regarding what could be expected from user point of view is always welcomed.

About search, you could say 'not working well' if you expect that fields updated but... this was not my intention at the beginning and search function by default should be one-shoot search function, not navigation tool.

Anyway, maybe you're right, I have made some changes... and hope it is better for you now.

I need to create a form-validation too... and this, and that... and tons of pictures...

Thanks for helping me.

[Mixeur]

Actually, what I meant when stating not wroking well, is that in case where nothing is find, like when selecting unconsistent fields like AMD 68000 1974, you have a blank page. Even without doing a dynamic form which will updates fields possible value depending on fields selection, users would expect some error message like 'No matches found'.

[6a6ar09a]

Regarding dynamic form... now I see what you mean (if select for example Intel, you want just Intel's families... etc). I will do that maybe later... For now, search form is god enough... I am focused on cleaning (read; washing) chips and I need to populate website site with content, first.

But, at list we have error message . Thanks again.

P.S. If someone told me few years ago that I will spend my time washing and polishing chips... I would probably say that he is insane. LOL

[hugo929]

[6a6ar09a]

Sorry Hugo, no, it's not online. I have registered chipmuseum.com and soon it will be available...

(All my sites are down now, I am changing hosting company, servers, building some new websites etc.)