Adoption and Related Webrings
What is a WebRing?A webring is a totally free service offered to the Internet community. It provides a different way to organize content on the World Wide Web. (After all, endless pages of links or lists from search engines are only so interesting.) The webring is a way to group together sites with similar content by linking them together in a circular fashion: a ring. How does a WebRing work?advertisement  The idea is that once you are at one site in the "ring," you can click on a "Next" or "Previous" link to go to the next site in the ring and--if you do it long enough--end up where you started! Obviously, this is something that anyone could do simply by getting together with a few other people and having each person add a link to their page pointing to the next person in the loop. However, when somebody wants to join the ring, someone has to edit their page to point to the new page and, when the ring gets big enough, it becomes more and more difficult to keep the ring "intact" when pages go down. With the larger webring promoters, such as Yahoo, the website information is kept in a database, so all you put on your page is a single link that never has to be changed. When another site is added to the webring, the database is updated and all the sites in the webring are updated along with it. |
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