Preserved Topic: Ring around the Asylum

OK! As requested, I've installed a primitive little webring, using a version of GNU licence code that we can putz around with, as desired. I've not done a heckuva lot to customize it, other than forcing it into our own look&feel, and it is *not* directly tied into our user database! I saw problems with automatically putting people into the ring, as it also requires you to have the ring code on your page as well!

Check out the main page for the ring at http://www.ozoneasylum.com/ring/ or follow the little link at the bottom of this page, follow the steps and sign up for the ring, let's start getting some traffic flowing through this thing.

Hey! I'm also accepting nominations and/or volunteers to be admin of this ring, as I'm just too lazy^r^r^r^r busy to be handling this aspect, all the sites have to be approved as it stands right now, a major pain in the c*****n. I'd appreciate some discussion about this new add-on to the asylum, what are your opinions, etc...? Enquiring minds want to know!

PS: I'm working on making the listing of sites in the ring look prettier. Patience!

Your pal, -doc-

Better get the scrubbing bubbles VP, this tub's got a ring!

I`m kinda stupid, but what`s the difference between * entry url * and * html code url * ?

Site ID ? Do you wwant the FTP addy and password ?

Whats a ring?

Entry URL is the URL of your web site...

HTML code URL is the URL of the page where you're going to put ring HTML code...

Site ID is basically the username which you'll use to log in if you want to change information about your site (think about this like that it is a forum username and password).

Slime, take a look here: http://ringmgr.curio.org/

mr.maX

Assuming I would be accepted, I'd be interested in joining the near future; however, my site is current receiving a backend overhaul. Sounds fun!

I don't know Doc...I can't really say I like the ring thing? It kinda leads people away from your site....FWIW

That and your guys sites make mine look bad

he he...mine's in...i had fun adding the code from home though...i kept uploading the wrong updated index.html...



www.netmosis.com - we're on the leading edge of a false reality...

Yep, mine as well...
I'm not sure if it "meshes" well with my page..... but it's not bad.

The thing of it is, it doesn't need to *look* anything like the example I uploaded for you, the only thing the bot checks for is the links themselves, you can do all sorts of strange things to the look & feel of the ring code. Let's assume that the idea of a ring for this place is not a bad idea, OK? (It's turning into a lot of email back & forth for yours truly, I may get fed up with all the maintainance!) OK, we're back to thinking it's a cool thing, right? Now we should have a competition to see who can make the coolest ring interface! I could set up a couple of variations on the codes you could get auto-generated, using our designs as the basis. Go wild, don't worry about using the exact thing the script generated for you! (I ripped it off from pixelcore mostly, and added some asylum colors, that's about it.) Continue commenting, don't forget to add your links if you join! (The listing is active now, that will be cool when it gets full of sites!)

Your pal, -doc-

erm oops! ignore!

thanx doc your the greatest!
modded the look so it goes with my site
yay looks cool!

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[This message has been edited by Maruman (edited 02-05-2001).]

ok.. I am using DocileBob's excuse.. I understand all of it cept for where I get the code to insert on my webpage? does that get sent, or is that the next page after one fills in the submission form?..

Hey! I am the mop boy around here afterall..

Sorry to be annoying, but I'm really not quite sure I know what a web ring is, even with that link someone gave me. What's this post about? It sounds neat, but I'm not sure... help!

Slime: a web ring is like an organization, group, club, loosely speaking. When one jins a web ring they display an image or text link on there homepage that serves as a link to a 'ring of websites'. Normally the option would be to click to the next website in teh ring, or to pick a random website within the ring.

Basically, defining the word 'web ring'. It is a circle of websites, all linked together by the web ring.. in this case it would be the 'asylum web ring'.. see?..

ie if you look at the bottom of this page you see the web ring logo.. when you click on it you will get the web ringhomepage (to sign up) or if you click the forward or backward arrows you will move along the ring one site either way... or sometimes there will be a random button too so that you could be moved to a random site that is within the ring.

Does that help? *goes off to mop out Doc's cell...hasnt been done in a week or more.. eioww*

~Vp~

Oooh, I'll have to join that... tomorrow... when I have time...

i think i can dig this like a shovel.....

when eyezaer ever gets his page up[har har] he will be forced to link up.......

VP, you'll get HTML code by e-mail after you sign in.

Slime, I really don't know how that link that I've posted above didn't help you... That site has links to all available web ring related resources on the net, and here's one link to a WebRing FAQ (from the same site): http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/rng1/webring_faq.htm .

The funnest part for me is the listing of sites, that goes on forever, literally. You can keep selecting the "next 10 sites" and since it's a loop you always come back where you started. If you look at the order things come out, the sites next to each other on the list are linked together, get it? The newest site, at the "end" of the chain, always links back to the OzoneAsylum, the first link on the chain. It's kind of neat, the thing is small enough now where you can click along, visit all the links, and end up back here, heh. I like it!

Your pal, -doc-

hey doc,
email me, tell me what i can do to help....

This is a little bit Off Topic, but I have to ask: Doc, what happened with the Asylum TV? When will it be finished?

mr.maX

Thanks for letting me participate with my non-english site, Doc )
I promise that I'll try and finish the english section as soon as I can

Flik

OK, let's see, as long as I have the hyperlinks, it's OK? I don't need the exact text << , asylum, ?, and >> in them?

Oh, and if I put stuff like onMouseOver in the <a href="..."...> tag, will it understand and not hate me? Or do I have to just leave the <a href="..."> without anything else?

[This message has been edited by Slime (edited 02-06-2001).]

Ok. I`m ringed in. But the admin site won`t accept my password anymore. Is that some kind of hint ? I have to tell you I don`t take hints well.

Also, Doc I don`t have* no web-ring learnins*, but if there`s any thing an idiot can do to help, just email me.

remember, when you think of idiots, thinik of docilebob....no... wait..

Anyway, I`d be glad to help if I can. My free time is your free time.






[This message has been edited by docilebob (edited 02-06-2001).]

Hey Slime! You can do all sorts of weird stuff with the links, they just need to be there. Persoanlly, I think it'd be nice if they could be found easily, just in case someone (like me) might want to take a swing through the ring, click click clicking along, it's kind of fun! 'Cept I got lost at 'zaers site, took me a few minutes to stumble across the links, heh. I was thinking of doing some mousefollowing dhtml interface for the main ozone site, maybe a compass or something, maybe a particle accelerator. The only thing that needs to be noticed on framed sites is that the "where the code is" age in the admin needs to be the specific page that actually has the code, the other one can be the frameset, that's where folks link to.

Your pal, -doc-

alrighty,
Doc, i got rid of the single pixel BG, and, I added some alt tags... it might make it a little easier to guess what the pix is fur. err... hang on.... i swapped the pix and forgot to swap the alts... okay.... we online.




edit: slime, if you still are scratching your head go to my page...

[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 02-06-2001).]

OK, I got it all set up and everything, but how do I let the ring know that I have the links on my page and it can activate it now?
http://www.karl.nu/slime/

Well, that was one way to do it! I just activated the site for you, gotta say again, I *do* like the simplified form you're using now, looks good, feels like "Slime", heh. Thanks man!

Your pal, -doc-

hey slime - i like your webring interface!

yay =)

I'm on a process of making one for myself.. beta testing is coming your way...

Let me burn this topic first..