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Posted By: Frank
What is the interest level and practicality of building a "virtual" T206 superset? We would store images of fronts and backs of as many of the 6900 or so possible cards, upgrading as we went along. It would become both the master checklist for the superset and a place to view the finest examples known to exist of each card... |
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Posted By: Dave Hornish
I've always thought a visual checklist with the front of each card shown on the left with all possible backs stretching off to the right, grouped by series, would be cool. Like Ted's posts look on some of the current threads. |
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Posted By: Scot
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Posted By: leon
If there is anything I can do to help please let me know. Good luck with it guys....Ya'll can count on my few T206 cards if you need/want to.... regards |
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Posted By: Robert Dixon
I think it's a cool idea. |
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Posted By: Bill Williams
I would be glad to host it on my site |
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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie
Bill, I assume you would include the site in a subdirectory of your site; www.billssite.com/t206superset.htm
Keep in mind the amount of bandwidth that would accompany this project once near complete with pictures, front and back.. If someone wants to launch a seperate standalone website, I grabbed the domains; t206superset.com .info .net .org and will gladly transfer them (free) to the admin running the site. Just give me a shout. I guess we just need to decide if we want a stand alone site which can be run for less $100 per year or a few pages inside someones existing site.. |
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Posted By: leon
If there is a way to host it on this site I am open to that too...Just a thought..... |
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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie
Leon, Not sure about bandwidth but it would similar to the way you setup pages for your RULES, LINKS, Atlerered cards pages, Archives... etc. But, my guess is you will need/want more than 1 page for the T206superset images. Marty |
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Posted By: Bill Williams
I believe I could set it up as a subdomain on the site and the domain you registered could foreward to it. Let me check with Leon on a few things first. |
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Posted By: leon
I am easy on this one. I don't need to be a "ball hog" .....whatever is best for everyone is fine by me...I think we could set it up fairly quickly, here, if that is what is decided....best regards |
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Posted By: Scot
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Posted By: Dennis W.
I'll register the domain, build and host the site at no charge. Business is slow right now so it's a good time. Email me if you'd like to see some of my work. |
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Posted By: ChiSoxFan
I could possibly help with the web site as I do computer programming and web work for my employer. |
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Posted By: Frank
Thanks to all who replied and e-mailed. I was starting to wonder if you all thought I was crazy as this thread was approaching second page fast with only 1 response ... but now that we have some interest, we can start talking nuts and bolts. As the OP, my only request is to stay close to the project, however it develops, and have some shared input into it's creative elements. Some thoughts... |
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Posted By: Don
I think the "assorted" backs should be categorized in their corresponding series, i.e. Ted's analysis. |
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Posted By: Tim
My 2 cents. |
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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
There's something I don't understand here in this thread ? |
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Posted By: Rob D.
I think people would like to see images of the actual cards (super set), Ted, as opposed to a checklist. |
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Posted By: Tim
Ted I could be wrong, but I believe the idea to be to add viewable scans to the work that Bill has done. An actual representative scan for each card on the spreadsheet. |
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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
I just bumped my three T206 Series threads that illustrate and explain the different Series |
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Posted By: Tim
Ted- |
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Posted By: Dennis W.
I certainly don't mean to step on any toes, but if the data was in a database (mysql for example) the data could reside on a web server and be viewable online. Not only that but it could be sortable and provide user specific queries (i.e. entering a player name or selecting a player from a dropdown list and viewing all known back combo's for that player). Many other options are available. Just some thoughts and as I said if I'm stepping on some toes consider myself "reeled in". |
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Posted By: Frank
Ted, Actually your 3 series threads, Bill's spreadsheet, and Scot's collector's guide are precisely what triggered the idea. |
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Posted By: Dave Hornish
It would be useful to show all T cards that use T206 fronts as an extra feature. |
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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie
Dennis, right on.. some type of database back end is the way to go vs building single pages and since the superset is already in a spreadsheet, you can easily import the data into mySQL or Access depending on your hosting server.. then its just a matter of adding picture fields to each record that point to the location of the picture. I do this on all my baseball card related web sites.. you can create one page (asp or php) link to a database and that one page can display thousands of different cards. Marty |
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Posted By: Frank
Just wanted to post an update. We have a team assembled and work has begun on the construction of t206superset.com as described in the original post. We are in the process of finalizing the database structure and data and have a draft conceptual web layout. Completion may take a couple months. When ready, we will post an invitation for scan submittals via the website. It is likely that we will initially accept scans for a very small subset, such as 150 only subjects, so that we can get our processes in order before accepting a larger group. We think we have some pretty good ideas for this and it should be of value to the T206 community. Thanks to the many who have contributed advice, ideas, elements for the web site, etc. We're always looking for more... |
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Posted By: Tim
I'm really looking forward to see how this T206 project unfolds......sounds great!!! |
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Are there any updates to this project?
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Wanted to bump this up-I too would love to know how this project was coming along,or has it been thrown to the wayside?Anyone know?
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I would say it has been a couple months-I'm interested and have a huge amount of scans.
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Update
Unfortunately, after doing some preliminary work, the virtual monster project lost traction and fell apart. I would still love to see this happen, but I don't really have the time or web-hosting saavy necessary to lead it to completion. I hope someone else will pick this up and make it happen. I would like to be a contributor in any way possible. If someone is interested, let me know, I have some documents I can try to dig up - database table layouts, general website layout, etc., that might be of some help to someone getting things started.
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