On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 03:21:24 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Who is looking after the arachne webring now? ISTR Woody was giving
>>up
>>on his arachne/dos website and so what happened about the webring
>>management?
>
>Mel,
>
>What is a webring? I have certainly seen the word or phrase,
>webring, but am
>not really sure what it is. Maybe some others too would be hard-
>pressed if
>asked what is a webring.
Hi Thomas,
A webring is a group of websites usually on or near the same subject
but set-up by different people. The ring simply gives a link to each
of the other sites in the group with a click-on link. Most allow you
to list all of the sites in the ring, then to move backwards and
forwards from the site you start with, some let you look at next 5
sites, previous 5 sites, and so on.
At the last count, the Arachne webring had around 14 sites in the
ring, so if you come to mine at say number 3 in the list, you can
move to either number 2 or number 4 in the listing, or next 5 gives
you 4,5,6,7,8, whilst previous five gives you 2,1,then 14,13,12. It's
an ideal device to let you move to sites of a similar interest to the
one you are already visiting.
Does this explain it for you? If not, go to my site and try it!
http://www.arachne4dos.freeserve.co.uk
and scroll down to the bottom where you will find the webring box.
Regards
--from Mel Evans, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check out http://www.arachne4dos.freeserve.co.uk for more
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