- About the Site

Aug 3, '06 10:30 AM
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After nearly a decade since he started collecting banknotes from all over the world, Justin Adriel Ordoyo Fernandez y Asistores Espaldon has finally decided to make a catalog of all the bills which he has collected since then.

Before creating this site, he already planned to catalog all his bills, but not in any glamorous way. In fact, an excel spreadsheet listing all the banknotes, their face values, serial numbers, date of printing, currency and country of origin would have sufficed. But his passion for collecting these treasures gave him the impetus to come up with the simple and colorful multiply site that you now see before you.

His first dillemma was how to get all the images of the bills into the site. He didn't want only the obverse (front) side but also the reverse (back) side of the bills as well. He has an HP ScanJet 2400C Scanner, but he thought to himself that scanning all those bills would be an incredible waste of time and energy. He also didn't want to take each and every bill out of his money album, scan them, and put them back again. Soon, he thought of a solution. Thanks to KCShop.com's vast and extensive catalogue of banknotes, he was simply able to download the images of the bills. He didn't mind even if the watermark of KCShop was on the images as long as it would spare him the aggravation of scanning.

The next task was to think of a name for the site. showmethemoney, money, moneymoney, moneymoneymoney, ihatemoney, and justinumismatics were among the names that came up but unfortunately, the first four were already taken. He checked those URLs just to see who were using those usernames and see what they're site was about. To his surprise, all their sites were plain white and devoid of any meaningful content. "What a waste", he thought. ihatemoney on the other hand was a cool, paradoxical way to name the site, but Justin thought that it didn't identify himself with the site. Thus, he thought of "justinumismatics" which was the combination of "Justin" and "numismatics", the collection or scientific study of money and its history in all its varied forms. Unfortunately, it sounded too highfalutin or alien, and it might not appeal to those who do not share the same hobby and passion. Furthermore, numismatics was a term more particularly applied to coins. The more appropriate term when it comes to paper money or banknotes is "notaphily", but "justinotaphily" didn't sound amusing either.

Thus, he finally decided to give the site a simple yet professional name -- "bankofjustin.multiply.com". Note that this name was meant only to facilitate web navigation. The complete name given to Justin's collection is "The Royal Numismatic Bank of Justin Ordoyo".

Next: Creating the Logo

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addlola wrote on Apr 8

This is a great site thanks for sharing. I like your humor (re: the title).
Thanks for visiting my blog at http://papermoneycollecting.blogspot.com

bankofjustin wrote on Apr 9

Thank you very much :) You have a very nice blog as well. May I ask why you maintain both a Multiply blog and a Blogspot blog? :)

addlola wrote on Apr 9

No reason I actually found multiply via you yesterday. How did you get to customize your blog so beautifully?

bankofjustin wrote on Apr 9

oh, it's just custom CSS. the first thing you have to do is select a theme by going to the "Customize My Site" link on the left panel :)

addlola wrote on Apr 10

Thanks will get working on it.

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