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	RingMaster Resource/FAQ

The RingMaster's Resource/FAQ
.	What do I need on my ring's homepage? While you can put whatever you like on your ring's homepage, here are a few things that we recommend: A description of what your ring is about, and how it works. Something telling prospective members what the requirements to join are. A link for prospective members to submit their site to your ring. Your ring's html fragment. A link to CrickRock. You are provided this service absolutely free, all we ask in return is a link on your ring's homepage. More info here. [Return To FAQ] What are the URLs to navigate my ring? Here are the navigation commands, followed by their respective URLs: Next Site http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/next.pl?ringid=RINGID;siteid=SITEID Previous Site http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/prev.pl?ringid=RINGID;siteid=SITEID Next 5 Sites http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/next5.pl?ringid=RINGID;siteid=SITEID Previous 5 Sites http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/prev5.pl?ringid=RINGID;siteid=SITEID Random Site http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/rand.pl?ringid=RINGID;siteid=SITEID List All Sites http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/list.pl?ringid=RINGID;siteid=SITEID Go To The Ring's Homepage http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/home.pl?ringid=RINGID;siteid=SITEID Search The Ring NEW! http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/search.pl?ringid=RINGID;siteid=SITEID View The Ring's Statistics NEW! http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/stats.pl?ringid=RINGID;siteid=SITEID (You'll need to replace RINGID with your ring's id, and SITEID with the site's id) EXAMPLE: If your ring's id is playstation and the site's id is mysite, then you'll use the following code: ...next.pl?ringid=playstation;siteid=mysite (note that it's only colored for emphesis) [Return To FAQ] What other URLs do I need to know? The URL to submit a new site to your ring is: http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/newsite.pl?ringid=RINGID The URL to manage your ring is: http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/ringadmin.pl?ringid=RINGID The URL for members to manage their site is: http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/siteadmin.pl?ringid=RINGID;siteid=SITEID (You'll need to replace RINGID with your ring's id, and SITEID with the site's id. - Refer to the example above) [Return To FAQ] How do I have the join form on my ring's homepage? To have the join form on your homepage, you'll have to copy and paste some html: To get the html code click here. Remember, you have to customize the code for your ring. [Return To FAQ] How do I have the site admin form on my ring's homepage? To have the site admin form on your homepage, you'll have to copy and paste some html: To get the html code click here. Remember, you have to customize the code for your ring. [Return To FAQ] How do I automatically list the number of member sites on my ring's homepage? Example: "We currently have 48 rings in this webring!" Where the number is updated automatically. This JavaScript code displays the current number of member sites in your ring: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.crickrock.com/webring/sitecount/RINGID.js"> </script> (You'll need to replace RINGID with your ring's id, remember it is case-sensitive!) [Return To FAQ] How do I get sites to join my ring? The best way to get sites to join your ring is to go out and invite them! Search for sites on the internet that would qualify for your ring. Email the webmaster, inviting them to join your ring. Explain the benefits of being in a webring, and that you'd like their site to be apart of your ring. (an example email can be found at the Message Templates page under letter E) After you have an established ring, many sites will find it on their own, and join that way. You need to do some promoting! [Return To FAQ] How else can I promote my ring? Post your webring to the Ringlink webring directory (http://ringdir.ringlink.org/rings/). You can easily do this in Ring admin by clicking the "Directory" button. Post your webring's website to at least 2 search engines. (http://www.google.com/addurl.html, http://dmoz.org/, and ....) [Return To FAQ] How does the "Check Sites" feature work in Ring admin? The ring checker works by looking for certain lines of code on the "HTML Code URL' page that your members submitted. It will not work if the page is in frames or if it's an entrance page. Encourage your new members to put in the absolute URL of the HTML Code URL when submitting their sites- to take care of this problem. [Return To FAQ] Why can't I send my members an email from Ring admin? The "Send email" feature will provide you with a list of all the email addresses of the members of your ring. (Actually, you can choose to get the active sites only, inactive sites only, or all email addresses) Then you need to copy and paste the addresses in your own email client. The reason for this is because we don't want to receive any complaints about spamming. We also recommend that you do not spam your members- it's just not nice! Anyway, this feature is a useful way to get a hold of and make announcements to the people in your ring. [Return To FAQ] How does the ring statistics feature work? The sites are sorted descending by the number of hits they have generated when their visitors have clicked the links on the navigation panels. The numbers are presented as hits per day, and the calculations are based on (max) a 30 days period. The stats for an average ring site is displayed as well. The stats feature adequately answers questions like "how is my site doing compared to the other sites in the ring" and "what additional traffic can I expect if I join this webring". It is possible to include a link to the stats page in the navigation panel. It's also advisable to provide a link to the stats somewhere at the ring homepage. To reduce server load, the summary stats isn't available in real time, but the numbers are calculated once a day (around 3:45 a.m. local time). You will find the stats for an individual site in "Site admin", and summary stats for a ring is available via: http://www.crickrock.com/cgi-bin/webring/stats.pl?ringid=RINGID;siteid=SITEID (You'll need to replace RINGID with your ring's id, and SITEID with the site's id) [Return To FAQ] Why does it say "no summary statistics available yet"? Don't worry about this. Since the stats is presented as average hits per day, it must be working a couple of days before there is any meaningful data to present. [Return To FAQ] Why isn't my ring listed in the "Ring List" at crickrock.com? You need to have at least 10 active sites in your ring to be listed on the Ring list. [Return To FAQ] Are you working on any improvements with the system? Here at CrickRock, we believe in the philosophy that any thing you can do, you can always do better. That's why we are continuously working on improving our system. The following is a list of things that are being worked on, and some other suggestions that will be looked at. Extended ring customization possibilities Addition of a "notes" section to each site Option to change site IDs from "Ring admin" Option to let the checker look for a submitted string Option to attach images for the navigation panel to the add mail message Possibility to register site language, and an option to restrict navigation of a ring to sites with a certain registered language If you have a suggestion, feel free to share your idea! support@crickrock.com [Return To FAQ]	.

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