Menu Template - Master Administration

System Forms:

Create a New Webring

Join System Forms:

[ringname]
[ringaddress]
[ringtheme]
[ringdescription]
[ringid]
[ringmaster]
[ringmasteremail] [ringmastersignature]

[sitename]
[siteaddress]
[sitenavpanel]
[sitetheme]
[siteid]
[webmaster]
[webmasteremail] [webmastersignature]

System Message Templates:

Ringmaster's Task List:

Hi!

Starting Your Webring:

Decide on a Topic for your webring.

Decide on a Title for your webring.

Make or obtain a Logo for your webring.

Make a Home page for your webring.

Create the Navpanel/s you wish to use for your webring.

Go to the home page of the LoR System that will be hosting your webring, and install it by clicking the 'Join' link found on that page. Once installed then go to the 'Ring Admin' page, login, and then customize your Webring's Admin pages as follows by clicking the various buttons!

Edit the HTML default code Navpanel to your requirements.

Edit if necessary, the e-mail messages that are to be sent out to new applicants

Edit if necessary, the messages that are used to manage your members

Post your webring's website to at least 2 search engines. (http://www.google.com/addurl.html, http://dmoz.org/, and ....)

Announce your webring in the various announcement Lists. You may have to join the List to post to it.

Post your webring to at least 2 directories.

Do a search on the topic or theme of your web ring. Visit the listed websites. If they are a good fit, send them an invitation using the form provided.

Search for other websites on your topic at the other less reliable webring systems such as WebRing, SiteRing, and RingSurf. Visit some of the websites in those websites. Send invitations to those websites that you would like to have join your more reliable LoR webring.

Post your webring to "free-for-all" lists, forums, and newsgroups related to the topic or theme of your webring (Do not spam these Newsgroups, and ensure that you read any guidelines before posting!). This may not be too effective, but...why not. Join the LoR-open mailing list, and at least one other web ring related forum (The World of Webrings Forum, and.......).

Maintain Your Webring at least once a week. Visit the Queue, and check all inactive websites regularly. Add those with the HTML code for the Navpanel on the correct page, and delete the duds. Send an appropriate e-mail to the ones that can't be added yet (Examples of which can be found on the LoR Customization page. Check applicants that have been in the Queue for your allotted time. Delete those that have exceeded your limit, and send them an appropriate e-mail.

Managing Your Webring:

Check the entire webring for correct HTML code Navpanels. You can use the "Check Sites" function. Sites move. Sites close. Member websites are not always careful to change their website's information when moving to a new website. Do not let them "break" your webring. Set those websites to "inactive" and e-mail them gentle reminders that they need to update their information.

Keep your home page updated and error free, and consider setting up a forum for your members and having a domain name for your webring (This allows you to move your webring to a new web host if your present web host crashes and burns without having to ask members to update any of the URL addresses.

Have Fun! :-)

Ring's Terms of Service:

Hi,

Introduction:

First of all, if you wish to join the [ringname], you are assumed to be familiar with the webring concept, and HTML before you start. If you are new to the Internet, joining a webring is probably not a wise undertaking. It is best to surf a couple of websites first, so that you can learn how they operate.

Next, this is a preliminary Terms of Agreement. It is very liberal, so I doubt if anyone will find anything objectionable about it. If anyone does, they have only to contact me with their concern/s and I will try to modify those terms in question to meet their requirements. I want this to be something all Webmasters can be comfortable with. If modifications to the agreement are made, those changes will be posted on my webring's home page [ringaddress].

TERMS OF SERVICE
The [ringname] is a limited webring service. I say limited because the number of sites I can host is currently limited by what I feel I can manage. In the future I may allow more sites, but for the present my plans are to stop accepting new websites once I get near our limit of YOUR LIMIT.

It is our policy to offer Open, and relatively unrestricted access to our webring, with regard to the type of content allowed with the exceptions noted in Appendix A. The Service provided by the [ringname] allows related websites a means to link together into a easily navigable Webring. While we provide the basic navigation system for these member websites, each home page for a website is hosted on a different server owned and operated by another person who is known as the Webmaster. The [ringname] has no control over, access to, or responsibility for the content found on these other websites that are hosted with this webring, including images, links, trademarked material and/or other content.

Because of this, by joining our webring and viewing member websites, or their other web pages, you understand and agree that you may be exposed to images and other material that you may find objectionable, indecent, or otherwise offensive. If the content or material found on a member website or one of it's other web pages concerns you, please contact me (RingMaster) [ringmasteremail].

Due to possibility of exposure to adult or mature content, and the collection of personal information (name, e-mail address, and year of birth), we do not allow children under the age of 14 to join this webring!

This in no way means that children under the age of 14 may not navigate the webring or it's other web pages. It just means they cannot join this webring.