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GENESSA -- HOW TO MANAGE A WEBRING WELL!![]() Managing a WebRing can be fun and rewarding. It can also be a lot of work. There are aspects of it that can be put on "automatic" but you cannot be an absentee ring manager; your ring will be taken from you. What Lady G (speaking for herself here) thinks is good management might be good management, or mostly good management, or Lady G might be totally delusional. However, she will try hard to make a distinction, in the following, between the objective (click this button to get this result; this is a WebRing rule) from the subjective (this is how I do it and this is why I do it that way). Lady G on WebRing Management: Information is power. I have everything that can be set for email notification so set. WebRing does not have a good system for keeping track of whom you sent what, so having copies sent to you is the best way to keep track for yourself. Be notified, too, when a member edits site information. In fact, check everything you are offered, in all your options, that results in your getting some kind of notification. Places to do this: management settings, customize emails, profile and alert settings (the last not being part of an individual ring setting). WARNING: This page is long! Settings Here are the settings a 2.0 member will have on the hub page of a ring s/he manages; some of them will not exist for a 1.0 member. I recommend all managers be 2.0, so I will work under the admittedly incorrect assumption that you're 2.0 or will be by the time you want to manage rings! ![]() Management Tools on the Ring's Hub Page Process New Submissions: When you get a new submission, this will usually (nothing is perfect, remember, so check!) turn red. Click on it. First note whether the new applicant's code is passing or failing. If it is failing, click TEST and see if it updates. If it fails, you do not wish to accept it. You can, of course -- but then you will just have to suspend it, since its code is failing. It cannot receive or send visitors so it will function as a dead end in your visitors' navigation through the ring, unless it is suspended or better yet, not yet admitted. Sometimes admitting a site to a ring only to suspend it gives the member the false impression that s/he is actually fully in the ring. Therefore I recommend putting such a site on HOLD, with a note to the member reminding him/her to add the navigation code. But this is not all you need to see here! You want to see whether the member is using HTML or SSNB code (you won't see this if the member is using no code at all; you might, if the member has applied code but the code isn't working). You may wish to accept PASS-L code as passing, or you may wish to reject such code status. (See management settings below.) You will, importantly, want to check the actual page to see if it would be suitable for your ring, regardless of its code status. Code status can be changed; if the page has a maturity rating more sexual than what you've set for the ring, or if it is off topic, or if it is a links page and you've decided you don't accept those, or if it has one-way navigation, which is illegal all over WebRing regardless of your preferences, you will want to know this. So check the page itself. If the page is off topic, you will want to deny it. If it has any of the other problems above, or another problem, you will want instead to put it on hold, and explain in the hold email what needs to be changed. Remember to look at this page again at a later date, according to whatever schedule you've set for yourself, to see if the problem has been fixed. If fixing it requires a change of URL, you will be notified if you've set your management settings for that (and again, I recommend that). If fixing the problem requires putting code on the page, or putting better code on the page, you won't be notified of that and you also may not see the results immediately upon checking without clicking TEST so be sure to do that. If fixing the problem requires making internal links from elsewhere on the applicant's site to the landing page, you won't be notified of that either so your hold letter might do well to ask the applicant to email you when s/he's made the fix. If the problem hasn't been fixed in what you consider good time, you should deny the application, with an explanation. If the problem is fixed, go ahead and accept the application. NOTE: If you are a Super-User, you have the power to manage some features, including applications, in other manager's rings, unless they are premium members, in which case you cannot touch them unless they have made you a Helper (see global settings, below). You cannot (not just may not but cannot) approve yourself in someone else's ring. You both may and can approve your own applications to your own ring. Please be sure that your site fulfills the requirements to which you would hold any other site, most notably the requirement for working navigation code, without which you cannot benefit from membership at any rate. ![]() Manage Members This is the last thing you should do, but I am listing these in the order in which they are presented, so read on, then come back to this. Managing members includes (but is not limited to) seeing whose pages are suitable if you've just acquired the ring and inherited the membership, which means you had no control over who was or wasn't admitted; checking code, checking all the other attributes of a member page, seeing which sites are already suspended, or have PASS-L code, or are using HTML, or have been designated ONE WAY, or have code which is failing (either because it doesn't exist or for some other reason). ALL Obviously shows you all member sites, regardless of status. Applicants not yet approved are not considered members. ACTIVE Shows you only active members. The activation date is either when they joined or when they got reactivated from a suspension. There is no way to know which. SUSPENDED Shows you inactive (suspended) members. The date shows when they were suspended, so you can estimate whether or not they've had enough time to fix the problem. If you think they have, but they have not done anything toward being reactivated, you may delete them, with explanation. If I am deleting the same site, for the same reason, from more than one ring, not wishing to inundate the member with what could be construed as spam, I send only one letter and choose DO NOT SEND for the rest. Of course if the member has fixed the problem, I am happy to reactivate the site! BROKEN For some reason, the code fails. If the site is already suspended, you need do nothing you wouldn't do for any suspended site. If the site is not yet suspended, you will want to check to see what the problem is, and either suspend or delete the site. Clicking TEST might, on the other hand, remove the site from the BROKEN list! This is a good thing. It means it was a false alarm, Checker just burped, and all is well with that site after all. PASSED This should list sites whose code is passing but which are suspended, or have been suspended for a certain period of time, depending on your settings. (Contrary to opinion born of ignorance, passing code is not the be-all and end-all of ring membership and you've probably suspended this member for some other reason.) Usually this is empty and quite frankly, everything this could tell you, you can learn elsewhere. PASS-L This indicates code which is not on the registered page but is linked from there with a link recognized by WebRing. Many managers do not accept this as passing code (you can set this in management settings; see below). Others do. I don't. Should you? If you accept WebRings and/or Links pages, you probably also accept Pass-L (or maybe not). It's up to you. FAILED This should be the same as "Broken" but sometimes isn't. Click it, see if anything's in there. Treat any sites in there as you would for "Broken."UNKNOWN Did I say I knew everything? This heading lives up to its name! TOGGLED If you have your management settings set for certain things to be automatic, or not (for example, whether or not you want WebRing to automatically suspend sites with failing code) you can toggle an individual site to go against that setting. Why? Well, let's say you have WebRing automatically suspending sites that have failing code and reactivating them when the code once more passes, but you have suspended a site for being a WebRings page and the code is failing. The member fixes the code but doesn't change the page. You don't want WebRing activating the site for you; you want to wait for the member to change the registered page to a content page. This site you wish to toggle. Me? I put everything on manual anyway. I don't toggle much. I'm not a toggler. BOTH NAVCODE/HTML NAVCODE I list these together because, speaking of toggling, they toggle from one to the other if you click them. Some members for reasons incomprehensible to me (well okay, I do know why but I think it's foolish) have both HTML and SSNB codes on their sites. They could just as well accomplish what they want by changing their settings and using only SSNB, but they don't know how, so they use both. I sometimes inform them of the right way to do it, but I don't suspend people for having both codes unless only the HTML code applies to my ring, and the code is showing incorrect information. Otherwise I leave them to their folly. Be that as it may, HTML code is not preferable for a number of reasons, including but not limited to the fact that it uses more (of the member's host's) bandwidth, uses more bytage for them too, and, most importantly, is served clientside, so it's static; if the manager changes the title, graphic or any number of details about a ring, the HTML code on the member's page won't keep up. SSNB will, as it is served by WebRing. In addition, SSNB need only be added to a page once, not once per ring like HTML. All in all it is much less trouble for the member. Advantages of HTML (most of which are DISadvantages for the manager: the member can edit it, the member can make pretty patterns with it, the member can show the whole stack without knowing how to edit code. Mostly, we don't want the member to be editing the code, we don't care about pretty patterns, but in fact the member can use the split stack option to do that with SSNB, and the member can add a fragment of code to SSNB to make the full stack show. There is no earthly reason why a member must use HTML unless his or her host doesn't permit it, and I see no earthly reason for anyone to choose a host that restricts a member in such a way, but that's just me. I do not accept new HTML-users' applications. As for existing members in a newly acquired ring, I check the pages to see if the links on the NavBar are proper. In many cases, the JOIN, LIST SITES and/or HUB links (and/or the graphic link if any) will go to some outdated join page; this is not acceptable. Sometimes the name of the ring is incorrect. Sometimes the NavBar is missing (but for some reason there is just enough code to pass anyway). I suspend for all these reasons. Sometimes the graphic is missing or wrong; I suspend or not depending on the overall quality of the page; if the graphics are broken for all the NavBars, not just mine, that makes for a pretty ugly page to which to send visitors! If there is nothing wrong with the NavBar beyond its having the wrong graphic or perhaps a slightly different title, I do not suspend but email the member asking him/her to update the code. I rarely get a response. ONEWAY NAVCODE If a site has already been designated as one way by WebRing, you can't reactivate that site no matter how hard you try. The member must fix the problem and then contact WebRing Support, using ONE WAY as the topic from the drop-down menu, and inform the right department that the problem has been fixed. Once the designation has been removed you are free to check it for yourself and reactivate the site if that is your wish. To report a one-way site, click NAVIGATION for that site, and then suspend it (or put it on hold if it's a applicant's page). You can get more information about this issue by clicking "info" which will bring you to this page, which you may wish to check out now. ![]() Management Settings Here you may choose whether new applications initially land at the front or back of your list of active members, once they've been accepted of course. I choose front for the following reasons: 1. People who've just joined a ring often look to see if they're in the list. They can find themselves easily if they're first! 2. I always set the ring to change its order randomly, so they won't stay first; putting them first will please them, but not have a lasting affect on the ring order. You may also choose when pending submissions expire; if your settings on this page don't otherwise give WebRing power to do such things automatically, this will be meaningless; otherwise, set this for however long you wish to wait for applicants to put code on the page, fix problems you've pointed out, or, quite frankly, be gotten around to by busy you! If you are not going to be checking things daily, give them bunches of time. (But you shouldn't be a monthly manager! That's pretty hands-off!) You can choose to be alerted when a member changes his/her site's title, URL and/or description. At the very least, you should be alerted for a URL change; the member may be fixing a problem you've asked to be fixed, or creating one that didn't exist before! I have my settings to alert me on all three occasions. Sometimes a member, not knowing how to email a manager, changes a description, or pretends to, in order to get the manager's attention. Sometimes the member is changing a title or a description upon request. (I will, for example, ask members to change the title from "Home" or "Index," which gives the visitor no clue what the page is about, to something more evocative; I also require members of rings with ratings of "Mature" to indicate mature material in the description. Some members have warning pages preceding their mature material pages; this doesn't work for me as I do not like entry pages and they're almost always one way anyway (why would anyone return to a warning page? anyway?) If a member has this configuration, I request that the member changes the URL to that of the content page and put the warning in the description. In fact I want such warnings in the descriptions anyway; people shouldn't get shocking surprises! There are four auto-management options. I check the second and fourth; most people (I have found) check the first and third. The first says: "sites with broken navigation bar are automatically suspended and those with working navigation bar are automatically activated, unless restricted below." Since I want control over this myself, I do not check that. The second says, "Do not automatically activate suspended sites with working navigation code, they'll be reviewed manually." For obvious reasons, I do check that. The third says "Suspended sites are automatically deleted if they remain suspended for a period exceeding the same limit as new submissions, AND new submission auto-expire is selected (above, this page)." I like to choose how long to give a site on a case-by-case basis, so naturally I do not check that. The fourth says "PASS_L should NOT be considered as acceptable for being made active by the auto-management system. PASS_L should be treated as FAIL." Since I do not let WebRing automatically suspend sites (except one-way sites, over which no one but that department has any control) this may seem useless but it isn't, for reasons into which I will delve under "statistics" below. ![]() Join Settings Free members have a limited ability to set these; 2.0 members have a nice big space to use, or they can refer to a join page of their own creation, off-site. See what GENESSA's Generic Join Instructions look like (without notes for any individual ring). Yours may look quite different. If you would like to use your own created home page for the ring instead of WebRing's join instructions page (I use the latter) check "Use HomePage" and note that "Join link should go to ring's HomePage. If selected you must include the link: http://F.webring.com/wrman?ring=(RING ID HERE)&addsite on your HomePage or potentional members will not be able to join your ring!" You may choose to be alerted when you have a new submission to the ring; you may, on the other hand, choose to check on your own. If you have more than one ring, I suggest you choose the alert. One more bit of mail isn't going to kill your inbox. If you don't want any old whoever to join your ring, but would prefer membership to be by invitation only, or if you're planning on having the ring merged into another, or if you are planning to give up the ring, you may wish to close the ring by checking the CLOSED option; don't forget to put an explanation into the appropriate space. Otherwise, keep it open so all and sundry may apply! (You can always say no!) If you have not chosen to make your own ring home page, but have checked "Use Join Page," type or paste your join instructions into the space provided (as I have). You may make all your join instructions the same or customize them for each ring. You may make them long or short. Long ones might not be read fully. (Notice how badly I follow my own advice here!) You do not have to use HTML here (although you may). A single ENTER will be read as a doublespace, and you may use some of the buttons across the top of the space to make selections bold, italicized, etc. ![]() Email Members This needs no explanation, but perhaps a gentle warning not to inundate your members with emails. You may select all, or some by group, or individuals. ![]() Other Links to Ring This link will not always appear but when it does, clicking it will gain you a list of pages, not currently members in your ring, which nonetheless link directly or indirectly to your ring. If these pages are qualified, you may wish to invite them to join the ring. Most of them will not be qualified. However, even an unqualified page may be part of a site that has a qualified page which you do wish to invite. It's up to you. ![]() Global Settings This section controls more different kinds of elements of your ring than any other single section. First, you will want to write a ring description. The description should be aimed at the visitor, not the potential member. Join instructions belong in the join instructions, not in the description. URLs are forbidden here too. If you have credits for your graphics, this where to put them. Don't be afraid to elaborate. This is what gets people visiting your ring's sites, and even though you're talking to the visitors, a good description may also attract new members. Some people have flooded their ring description with keywords. This is unnecessary and annoying; there is a space for keywords. See it? Separate keywords with a comma, not a comma and a space. There is a place to put your Activemeter project ID; you don't have one. You can get one... if you need it. Read this to see if it sounds like something you'd like to do, then follow directions. I haven't bothered, yet, so I can't advise you. If you're new enough to be reading this page for the first time, you probably don't need it yet, but it's up to you! If you have an official or unofficial manager's page in the ring, there is a place to enter the site I.D. of your page. I have never done this; I don't think you really need to unless you have made your own home page for the ring, in which case you will want to add that page's URL in the next space. If you've followed my advice and example and used the join page and entered the instructions into the space provided, you will want to leave this blank. If you want certain members to have access to your management tools (for one or more of the following reasons or perhaps another: you're lazy, you're going on vacation, your members need practice managing rings) list them under "Helpers" by member I.D. If you wish to block certain members from applying to your ring (for one or more of the following reasons or perhaps another: they never put the code on, they harass you by continually applying with inappropriate pages even though you beg them not to do so; they're generally loathesome) you may list their member I.D.s under "Blocked." The Privacy selections are pretty easy to understand, especially as they have little explanations next to them, upon which I cannot improve. I will mention that if your ring is rated "Adult" you will be blessed with pornographic advertisements on your ring's hub. Caveat emptor. You may choose to have an active forum attached to your ring, or not. If you have one, I suggest you also join it (and accept your own application). You may choose the region to which your ring is applicable; chances are it's universal but there is no option for that so just choose your own general location. The primary category gets changed via a link to another page so do this after you have saved the rest of the changes to this page. Here is what to do: if you do not like the category that has been chosen, click CHANGE. You will be brought to a directory-like page where you can either enter keywords or drill down categories. Once you have chosen a category for your ring, you will be brought to the Ring Promotion page, which you do not have to use and which has little to do with categories (the tiny thing it does have to do with categories is that you can pay for a second, third, etc., category, and you can also pay to have your ring promoted; see more under "ring promotion" below). Apply changes, then come back and change the category if necessary; if you try to change the category during the process of changing the other stuff, you'll lose all the other stuff by leaving the page! ![]() >Customize emails You may choose on which kinds of emails you send as part of your management you wish to be copied. I select all; you may wish not to receive any, or just to receive some. The choices are: application, approve, deny, suspend, activate, delete, automanage and expire. The last two are irrelevant for me since I do everything manually but I have them checked anyway. You may also customized what these emails say, or leave them as they are, in default mode (read them at your leisure). So far I have only customized the application letter. This is my version of it:
The information at the top, above the text, will be filled in automatically by WebRing because I have used the code provided; you can too. (I have not duplicated the code here.) I am still in the process of composing an approval letter; I am in no rush. If I am approving someone, that means they already did everything right. My application letter, as you see, reminds people of things they may have missed or not understood in the join instructions. Some managers have a standard denial, suspension and/or deletion email. I have so many versions that I just keep them in a separate document, and copy and paste them as appropriate, but even so I find myself writing a lot of personalized notes, since not everyone has the same problems. As a Super-User I have approved, denied or held sites and found that the customized email says "You are being put on hold because you have no code" or "you are being denied because your site is on the wrong topic," and in some cases, those actually are not the reasons for denial or hold. Therefore I have not customized those, myself. I just copy and paste from my ever-expanding collection. ![]() Edit Logo You may upload (or link to) a logo that has dimensions no more than 250 pixels on its largest side, and which has a file size no larger than 25k. At once time it didn't matter if a picture measured 300 x 200 or 250x250 as long as both sides together didn't exceed 500; this seems to have changed recently. If you are linking to an outside source, rather than uploading, do be sure you are linking to something to which you may legally link -- that is, it can be served offsite, and you have the right to link to it. If you are uploading an image, be sure you are complying with whatever license applies to it, be that public domain (in which case you have no obligations, although it might still be nice to include identifying information) or some other license (which may require you to give attribution to the image's author, or even require you to link to the author's website, which you cannot do from the ring's hub, so you cannot use a picture that has such a requirement). Be warned that an Adult-rated picture is not acceptable for a General- or Mature-rated ring. ![]() Navigation Code You may also upload a 50x50 (or 40x60, etc.) graphic to use as a logo, with a file size no larger than 4kb, to show on your NavBar. You may choose a background and border color (choosing a custom color and leaving it blank will result in a transparency; if you have chosen a custom color you will no longer be able to opt for a transparency so be careful!) as well as text and link colors; whether or not to have a small link to your profile show on the NavBar; whether to include or eschew the logo altogether (if you simply fail to upload one, the generic WebRing graphic will show), or the search box, or the WebRing copyright line; and you may also choose whether to allow your members to choose a vertical and/or horizontal NavBar. (I recommend letting them choose, and not eliminating either choice.) You may preview your choices but if you have replaced an existing logo, whether it's one that was there already or one you've just uploaded, you will have to click "preview" and then refresh the page to see the new logo. If you are a wiz at HTML, especially with regard to tables, you may make your own NavBar. Click to edit whichever one you want, vertical and/or horizontal. Be careful; it's tricky! In addition, many members are aghast to find some overzealous manager has created a gigantic NavBar that spoils their decor or takes up half the page. Be kind! ![]() Color Scheme You probably don't need this explained! You will notice there is a distinct leaning toward oranges, pinks and pastels, with no red, no black and very little that's bright. I recommend that you choose your hub logo first and then choose the color scheme that clashes least with it! (After a while you'll find yourself picking graphics that contains colors you already know are among the schemes.) ![]() Invite Others You may, and should, invite sites (not people) to join your rings. You may only invite a given URL or email address ONCE, not once per ring but really once! Supposedly you may invite the same URL or email address once the first invitation has been resolved, but for some reason, so far, in my experience at least, even if the invitation is accepted and the ring joined, the invitation is not considered resolved. Therefore I recommend that if you wish to invite a site, or more than one site belonging to the same email address, you list all the information (which URLS you're inviting to which rings) in the "your personal comments" space at the bottom of the page. Meanwhile, you will want to fill in the URL, the email address, the site title and site description applicable to the page you are inviting to the ring. If you are inviting someone who is already a member of WebRing, you can get the site title and description from another ring that site is already in. The email address you will need to seek within the site, and it might not be there; amazingly, some people don't mind giving out their physical addresses and phone numbers, but are so afraid of a little spam that they won't put an email address anywhere on the site, whether or not they have a comments form! You may be able to find an email address at the bottom of a member's profile, but usually you won't, especially if this member declines to put one on his or her website. I always look for the email address first, since if I can't find one I can't use the invitation form to invite this site to join the ring (I can email the member through WebRing of course, but will not get credit for the invitation -- yes, you get AP for inviting sites to your rings!) If you are inviting someone who has not yet joined WebRing the procedure is the same except that you may wish to spend a little time explaining, in that "your personal comments" section, that WebRing isn't a sponsor; that a NavBar isn't an advertisement; that nobody gets in without putting code on the page; why you like the site and why you think WebRing membership can benefit the site. You will also have to write a site title and description. Well, you don't have to, but you really should. The member can always change it later (or during the application process). Don't be discouraged by the fact that out of a gazillion invitations you may receive half a response. It's better than nothing, and you do get those activitiy points. ![]() Ring Poll This one's also a no-brainer, except that if you check that you want a poll but you don't check that you want to use the custom poll, even if you write the custom poll, WebRing's default poll will appear instead. It asks about the ease of navigation through the ring and how interesting or boring the member sites are. ![]() Featured Sites You may choose up to three sites per ring to feature; featuring means arranging for the sites to be placed above the list, on every page of the list. You may choose how much to ask per month for the privilege of being featured (there is a space to fill in the number; do not use dollar or cent signs, just digits and, if appropriate, a decimal point), and a member may make an offer lower than, equal to or higher than your asking price. You may accept an offer (by placing the site number to be featured in the proper space) or reject it (by doing nothing). If no offers have been made, the bottom of the page will say "There are no sites currently configured to pay for being featured." If there are offers, you will see them at the bottom, and they will include the amount of the offer (in black if the member's account has that much in its balance and in red if not), the site ID, the site title (which will be a link to the site so you can take a look) and the member's ID, as well as a link to send that member email (for example, to ask for a higher offer, to remind the member to fund his or her account or to ask the member to fix a problem with the site, as you cannot feature a suspended site). You may select the option of allowing WebRing to choose the highest bidders for you, or opt to make that choice yourself, and you may select the option of allowing WebRing to increase the asking price to match a bid that exceeds the current asking price, or not. My personal selection is always to choose the featurees myself but allow the asking price to rise with the offers. NOTE: WebRing takes 25 percent of this fee! It is deducted from the featuree's account, and added to yours, daily, so you may get mere cents per day. ![]() Ring Promotion You may pay for various enhancements to your ring and/or its placement within WebRing's directory. If you have changed your ring's category (see above) you will pass through this page before you finish. You can likewise access it separately. For small fees (a buck, a half buck) you can have your ring placed higher within a category, or even put your own advertising on your ring's hub page ($2.50 per thousand views) and/or suppress the ads that ordinarily are on the hub page ($3.00 per thousand hub page views). To place your own ad you need to upload the graphic and then enter the URL to which the graphic should link. ![]() Contest(s) Premium members may hold contests. ![]() Title Change You may change your ring's title; this will not affect the ring's I.D. If the name you have in mind is in use, you'll be told so, and not allowed to use it. If you have members using HTML code, their NavBars will not reflect the new title, so think carefully before changing the name of a ring with HTMLers. ![]() Ring Order You have quite a few options for how to allow WebRing to reorder your members in the list on a daily basis, including the option not to allow WebRing to do this at all; you can manually arrange the members in the list to the right, using the little arrows. Keep in mind that 2.0 members will automatically be placed above 1.0 members regardless of your manual arrangement. Random order seems to me to be the fairest, especially if any members have more than one site in the ring (random reordering will separate them somewhat, at least most of the time). ![]() Transfer Management Welcome to WebRing! This feature sort of kind of doesn't work. If you attempt to transfer management of a ring to another member, the ring will, instead, end up in auction. Theoretically, the intended recipient uses account settings to create a transfer password (Xfer PW) and tells the erstwhile bestower, who fills that information in on this page, along with the member I.D. to whom s/he wishes to give the ring. Until this is actually functioning properly, though, the correct way to transfer a ring is to have the recipient make that PW and then, instead of using this page, give that info, along with the recipient's member I.D. and the ring I.D. (as opposed to name), to support (in a ticket) if you are a 1.0 member, and to your rep if you are a 2.0 member. It is okay to ask for a transfer between your own member I.D.s instead of to another member. ![]() Delete Ring Don't. No, really. Just don't. The ring will not be disposed of; it will just be resurrected and show up in auction, probably with no members but still costing points, and it will circulate there like a ghost until the end of time. If you have a ring with identical content and intent, ask for this to be merged into it. If not, find someone to whom to give the ring. Failing that, use the transfer management ring feature which doesn't work (see above) and the ring will end up in auction. Do not delete your membership. Let someone else inherit the members and do with them what s/he will. ![]() Sub Ring(s) Sub Rings are a funny thing; they never really did become fully formed. They can be useful to visitors who want to browse within a subcategory of your ring... for example, if you have a ring on quite a general topic -- let's say dogs, shall we? -- you may wish to make breed-specific Sub Rings, or perhaps Sub Rings for breeders, for memorial pages and for dog product pages. It's up to you. Last time I looked, members couldn't just join Sub Rings; you, as the manager, "move" (in fact "copy") them into Sub Rings according to your own wishes (or you can, of course, honor a request). Sub Rings have no particular organizational value to a manager or even to a member. All the value, as far as I can see, is to the visitor. This isn't a bad thing, in and of itself, but it would be nice if it had organizational value as well. Perhaps some day it will. ![]() Statistics
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![]() ![]() Contact GENESSA:General email: ![]() How to Join a WebRingGENESSA's Generic Join InstructionsHow to Become a WebRing ManagerHow to Manage a WebRing WellAsking for HelpHow to Use WebRing's WebspaceEnjoying the Shoutbox1.0 vs. 2.0 MembershipThere will be more topics. Still writing! |