What is a WebRing?
A WebRing is a group web sites that have 'joined together' in a ring or circle, in which a visitor can click around back and forth, browse. For instance, a ring could consist of pages referring to a specific, common interest. Their purpose: to allow more visitors looking for pages on a specific topic to reach them quickly and easy. The Search Engines are not always enough.
This unique structure allows the creation and evolution of tens of thousands of different "communities" on the Web. Each ring, or "community" was started and is maintained by an individual website owner.
Through navigation links found most often at the bottom of member pages, visitors can travel all or any of the sites in a ring. They can move through a ring in either direction, going to the next or previous site, or listing the next five sites in the ring. They can jump to a random site in the ring, or survey all the sites that make up the ring. The navigation links looks the same in an all sites in the same ring.
The quickest way to find a ring of interest is to visit WebRing's online Directory. There, you can select a category, or initiate a keyword search across the entire system.
If you can't find a ring that suits your needs, you're free to start your own!
Do you, as a penpaller own a homepage? Do your Club, Service, etc own a homepage or website?
Then, you are welcome to join one or all the webrings we have joined! It's FREE! But you ought to have some skill of HTML ...
These are the WebRings WWPPN joined so far:
Do you, as a penpaller, have a homepage or site, which at least partly is about penpalling?
Does your pen pal club have a site on the web?
Then, you're welcome to join one or more WebRings shown. Your site, or at least a part of it, should of course be in English. Don't join the Swedish or Scandinavian rings if it isn't written in Swedish.
This is a perfect way to attract more traffic to your site. More people will know what you're doing. May be some of them will contact you.
The more rings you join, the more people will find your site!You will gain: More people will see your homepage
We will gain: More people will see our homepage
All (others) will gain: More people will see their homepages The more traffic - the better
This is how it goes to join a WebRing. You ought to have some knowledge of HTML coding, though.
You will join a ring by clicking on the "join"-link of the ring you're interested in. filling The ring's special application form pops upand you fill it out and send it off.
5-10 min. later, you'll receive a mail, which tells a specific Queue Number you're site has been assigned .
Remember this number.More often than not, you'll receive in this mail a HTML code fixed for you 'ready-to-use' to place in bottom on a page of your site (preferrably the Index page), by using the 'mark-copy-paste' method.
If it wasn't enclosed, the HTML code has to be found among that webring's pages. Place it in your index page using same method (mark-copy-paste). However, in this case, you must change a few things in the HTML codetext, in order to make it function. A few codes has to be exchanged. Use the programme "Notes" in the computer. An editing programme, like 'Netscaper Composer' won't be useful at all.
In one or other place in the HTML code you'll find the text "YOUR NAME HERE". Mark that text and place your name there, instead. You'll find "YOUR EMAIL HERE". Mark that text, and place your email there. Moreover, you'll find "SITE ID HERE", in several places in the HTML code. Each such text must be marked. And instead you place the Queue Number you got in the email. Texts like:"YOUR NAME HERE", "YOUR EMAIL HERE", "SITE ID HERE", etc should not be appaerent in the HTML code at all. If it does, the ring won't work.
In the mail, may be the WebRingMaster ask you to save certain picture(s) which would be connected to the ring's navigation links. If so... When you've found the pictures, click on them with the right cursor on the mouse and click on "save picture as...". Save the picture(s) on a diskette.
When all this is done, send an email to the WebRingMaster (the one you got the email from), and mention the HTML code is inserted on your page. Also leave the Queue Number assigned to your site, as well as the exact address to the page where you placed the HTML code (important!)
Then, The WebRingMaster will place your site into the ring.
That's it!
Enjoy that more and more people now can find your site!
Produced 15 November 1998 by Malte Aronsson, WWPPN
Last update: 3 April 2000