Shipbucket

In this case you'll have to combine images with raw text so it could be found with the forum's search engine.

In this case you'll have to combine images with raw text so it could be found with the forum's search engine.

Anyhow, in your template the data is represented pretty poorly: the vertical lines visually split it up which makes it much more difficult to read and edit. For example in order to add a little bonus info such as a class name you had to use smaller font and cramp it down in two or three lines. The wide column for the ship name is going to be 90% empty for 90% of crests.

Now, compare it to my sketch: one crest, one ship name in big font - these are the two things that matter the most. No vertical lines so the history of the crest is easy to read. And even with a log history there's always enough room underneath it to squeeze a bonus mini-crest and/or other info.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not picking on your design and I don't mean to criticize it just because I'm a little snobbish on the topic.
I'm just trying to make it look better for everyone because this project of yours really might turn into a huge heraldic guide so it needs to be planned through from the beginning. Besides, I have some experience designing user interfaces and representing all kinds of data so my opinion is more or less professional

Suggestion: No more than two CoAs wide on an image.

Edit: And definitively not any wider than three.

I'm sorry I have to correct you. Have you ever tried to search of any of the crest? In fact I've had created this so it actually works. When I use the search function here I can find each of the represented crest in this thread

I'm sorry I have to correct you. Have you ever tried to search of any of the crest? In fact I've had created this so it actually works. When I use the search function here I can find each of the represented crest in this thread

Huh, you're right; looks like the search engine looks at the image file names as well. Well, one problem less
Would you please comment on the rest of my post though? What are your thoughts?

What about ships that has had several designations? The Huitfelt is a good excample of this. Throughout its career it was designated as a torpedo boat, a coastal destroyer, a patrol destroyer and a patrol boat.