• Contents
• Home
• So you want to be a Ring Master?
• Ringmaster Ethics
• The Ring Fragment
• Some Comments About Webrings
• Webring Welcome Pages
• Webring Controls
• History Of WebRings
• Black Tuesday
• Webring Baggage
• An Analysis: JavaScript Vs HTML Fragments
• We won the war, have we lost the peace?
• An Annoying Webring Error
• Time To Leave Webring Forever
• Webrings terminated

Webrings are called rings because that's exactly the way they operate. If you start working your way through the ring, going from site to site, you will eventually get back to your starting point.

Each ring is identified by a "Ring id", which is a short name assigned when the ring was created.  Ring id's must be unique.

When you submit a site to a webring, you are assigned a number which uniquely identifies your site within the ring. For example, to identify this site in the "Love Your Spouse" webring the id is 2.

Once your site is submitted to the ring, you will receive some HTML code which must be inserted on the same webpage that you submitted. This code (and occasionally graphics) allows people to control their surfing through the ring. This code is also known as a ring fragment.

The fragment identifies the following things

• the web ring (by ring id)
• the site (by site id)
• the ring homepage

Each fragment may also include a number of function hyperlinks.

• Next - go to next site
• Prev - got to previous site
• Next 5 - List next 5 sites
• Prev 5 - List previous 5 sites
• Skip next - Skip the next site (useful if the link for next is not working)
• Skip previous - Skip the previous site
• Random - go to a random site in the ring
• List - List all of the sites in the ring
• Statistics - This is rarely included in the ring fragment but will show you how much traffic is being generated by the ring.
• Home - Go to the ring home page

Webring.Org Controls

Webring.Org has a different set of controls on their Server Side Navigation Bars.

• Join Now - Join the webring
• Ring Hub - Go to a page where further information about the ring may be found. In addition, there are more ring controls at this hub.
• Randon - Visit a random site in the ring.
• << Prev - Visit the previous site in the ring.
• Next >> - Visit the next site in the ring.

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