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[doublebooyah85]

Goodluck on your endeavors!

 

[GamingOre]

@Gus,

It is now 7 months later. Any progress to report on this massive undertaking?

 

[Gus]

@Gus,

It is now 7 months later. Any progress to report on this massive undertaking?

Trudging along, got a bit stuck on how to best present the molds on a website/page. I figured out "Faceted Search" is the ideal way to present the data, which is what you're used to seeing in e-commerce like the below link.

Men's
Hats
Green
Outdoor Research

https://www.rei.com/b/outdoor-resea...nd-headwear&r=c;b;color:Green&server=c9r:prod

Compare this to Eisenstadt's site where you simply choose one category of design elements, and then review a list of chips that roughly match that feature:

http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/molddesign_suits.htm

So many chips have dice on them - cheapo die-slugs, DIECAR, etc... but these chips also have something else on them, cards in the DIECAR example... so are they under cards or dice?

Faceted search would enable me to sort both... because "Dice" and "Cards" are distinct qualities of the chip, not the ultimate category.

This applies to the chip material (trad clay, casino plastic, etc...), the manufacturer (many molds were made by Burt, ASM, and CPC, sometimes even BCC too in the case of the Nevada mold (which wasn't ever produced by Burt, but I believe was by ASM and CPC in addition to BCC))...

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So! Faceted search is the way to go! I'm stuck because I could only figure out how to implement this on a Wordpress site via their WooCommerce feature for $500/yr and yikes! It's just basic database software, I don't want a recurring $500 charge for it!

So I need to figure out this hurdle which is what tuckered me out as a non-technical guy. I've run Wordpress sites for a decade with ease, but have found this limitation

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Wrapping up, the vision is each mold having its own web page with lots of information - history of the chip, features, etc - but searchable via 'faceted search' which is a dynamic way to sort data. "Show me traditional clay chips with geometric patterns" or "show me TINA chips of all types" which leads directly to a list of the different TINA molds/options.