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Just for fun: Specimens from the Richard Geiger Collection

I am once again employed at a full time job at a tech startup in the Silicon Valley. I do intend to keep my "mineral websites" business in operation, but I will not be able to accept any new clients in the foreseeable future. At some point (perhaps still several years into the future), I hope to return to this business full-time.


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The "Site Control Panel" is a set of password-protected web pages that provide features for uploading specimen data into the database, either through a web form or via bulk upload from a text file.

The following screen-shots illustrate a few of these forms and controls:



    

    

(Image files are uploaded to the server using any standard ftp client program. Only the largest image you wish to display need be uploaded; the site software will automatically create properly-scaled thumbnail images from thelarge ones).



The "back-end" design is tuned to make entering specimen data into the database as streamlined as possible, either via a web form:

    

...or, via bulk-upload in a text file:

    



The software supports many automated featured to help your site "run itself"; for example, the site automatically updates the latest foreign currency exchange rates daily:

    


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