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From:
Caroline Readman Date: Fri Jan 22, 1999 7:14 pm Subject: SignWriting Webring =) | ||||||||
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Hi Everyone! Just to let you know, the SignWriting Webring is now available! What is a Webring The Webring is a totally free service offered to the Internet community. Webring are a quickly growing community of homepages from all over the World who are committed to creating a new kind of Web community. The Webring provides the Internet community with a different way to organize content on the World Wide Web. (After all, endless pages of links and search engine results are only so interesting.) The Webring is a way to group together sites with similar content such as SignWriting (or any pages at all, if one so desires) by linking them together in a circular fashion: a ring. How does a Webring Work The idea is that once you are at one site in the "ring," you can click on a "Next" or "Previous" link to go to the next site in the ring and--if you do it long enough--end up where you started. Obviously, this is something that anyone simply by getting together with a few other people and having each person add a link to their page pointing to the next person in the loop. However, when somebody wants to join the ring, someone has to edit their page to point to the new page and--when the ring gets big enough--it becomes more and more difficult to keep the ring "intact" when pages go down. The Webring provides a solution to all of these problems, as well as numerous enhancements. When you join a Webring, the HTML code on your homepage never changes. Links point to a special CGI script at webring.org that will send people to the next (or previous) site in the ring. Because the central ring database is located in one location, sites can be added and removed quickly and easily, and because the Webring CGI allows you go continue past sites that are unreachable, you will always be able to continue around the loop. The Webring will do quite a few tricks, actually. People can travel a ring in either direction, either jumping to (or skipping) the next site or previous site, list the next five sites in the ring, jump to a random site in the ring, or simply get a list of all pages in the loop. Furthermore, the Webring system supports the operation an virtually unlimited number of separate and distinct rings, allowing the creation of hundreds--even thousands--of different "communities" on the web. And, best of all, the Webring is entirely free! SignWriting Webring is Now Available at: https://members.aol.com/signwrite2/webring.htm SignWriting Webring Master is Caroline Readman ( or ). I'm responsible to maintain the SignWriting Webrings to add, modify, delete, organized webring links, etc. Please note: Valerie Sutton will NOT be handling the webring, so if you have any questions regarding the webring, please contact Caroline Readman at the above e-address. When you join the SignWriting Webring and submit it, the information you have entered will be located in the Queue at webring.org site, a holding area, until the RingMaster visit your site, make sure the HTML coding and graphics are located at your website with the correct number assigned to you. Webring.org site should contact the RingMaster (but not always) to notify a new member is waiting in the Queue, and take appropriate action for an approval to join the list. Within a week, if you haven't been added to the SignWriting Webring, please contact me directly. I'm looking forward receiving your request to join the SignWriting Webring! Caroline Readman =) SignWriting Network https://members.aol.com/signwrite2/index.htm | ||||||||
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