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Welcome to The Dowsing Ring,
a collection of websites dedicated
to dowsing in its many forms and shapes.
A person finding The Dowsing Ring logo can visit
every member's site, without having to use a search
engine or know the other sites' Internet location.
a collection of websites dedicated to dowsing
in its many forms and shapes.
A person finding The Dowsing Ring logo can visit
every member's site, without having to use a search
engine or know the other sites' Internet location.
There are several reasons why you might
want to join a web ring:
- to get more people to visit your site;
- to get visitors at your site who were
unaware of your site;
- to help expose the casual "web
surfer" to a wider variety of subject matter;
- as the ring expands, you get to visit
many more new sites;
- being associated with other sites
dealing with the same subject.
A web ring is a way to group sites with
a similar interest together in a "ring".
Links on each page allow you to move from
one site to the next with simple clicks.
| How
do the links on a typical RingSurf site
work? |
In essence, the links on each site in
the ring provide a mean for the RingSurf database
to know what site the user is coming from, and
where they want to go.(ie, next site, previous
site, etc....). By having the proper information
on each site (ring id, site id#) the database
then checks to see which site is next in line,
and most importantly, what ring. When the user
clicks on one of these links, RingSurf will search
the database for the proper information and then
send the user to the url of the next site in the
ring.
The same goes for the list option. The
RingSurf will call up a list of all the sites
currently in the ring from the database, according
to the ring id that was in the link.
A Site ID is simply a number that uniquely
identifies a particular site in a RingSurf. Sites
are assigned a Site ID when the site information
is submitted to the Queue. Site ID's never change.
They also have absolutely nothing to do with the
"order" that sites are arranged in ring.
Their sole purpose is to uniquely identify sites
in the RingSurf database.
| What
is the difference between the Ring and the
Queue? |
The RingSurf maintains two lists of sites
for each RingSurf. The first contains all sites
that are actually part of the ring of sites. The
other list, called the Queue, is a sort of waiting
area for sites that want to join the ring but
haven't been approved yet, or have been temporarily
moved out of the ring for some reason or other
(missing URL, etc.).
When a site wants to join the ring, the
site owner will typically fill out a form on the
ring homepage with the site title, URL, a description,
their e-mail address, and other random information.
When this info is submitted, the site is added
to the queue and they are assigned a Site ID.
It is then up to the ringmaster to verify that
the new site is actually appropriate/eligible
for ring membership and then insert them in the
ring.
There are several steps to joining the
ring:
1. You must fill out the submission
form.
2. You will receive your Site ID number
and HTML fragment by email.
3. You must paste the HTML code
to your page, copy the ring images below and paste
them into your web page and upload to your server.
5. E-mail the RingMaster
5. We will visit your site. When you
have properly added the code and placed your personal
information in the code, we will add you to the
ring.
Do you want more information about RingSurf?
- go and visit at the
RingSurf.
If you're ready, let's go to the application
form first.
These are the 2 images that you
have to paste on your own page: first save them
to your hard drive and then upload to your server.
Please do not link to the images on our server.
The Dowsing Ring would be happy
to receive new image suggestions. Don't hesitate
to send us your creations. |
