AS SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW, a Web ring is a way of linking Web sites that have a similar theme by chaining them together through HTML code and a CGI program. Each site in the ring has HTML code that contains a series of links. Each member of a Web ring displays a Web ring logo on their page which links visitors directly to other pages with the same topic. Many Web rings exist, each with a different topic, administered by a "ringmaster."
Eventually, in moving through the ring, the user ends up at the point at which he or she started. Web Ring sites are created at separate and individual Web sites, but all have the same subject matter. Once into a Ring, one can avoid using search engines and indexes, and simply travel about in the ring until all available information is accessed.
A central server has a database with ring information at WebRing (http://www.webring.org).
This is a free service providing a central Weblink database and a searchable RingWorld directory. More than 10,000 rings with more than 80,000 sites existed, according to a May 1997 article, "How to Run Rings 'Round the World Wide Web" by Margot Williams published in the Washington Post.
I must admit I have not traveled about very much in the RingWorld (see http://www.webring.org), nor am I am member of the Fellowship of the Ring (hobbits, anyone?). However, one can find a Crime Ring, a Children's Literature Ring and a WWWomans Ring. Music, religion and politics all have rings. And you can do a search using a search engine on "Web Ring" and find your way into a number of other rings, if you wish.
A Fundraiser Ring does exist, for planning fundraising events (Annual Fund, anyone?). But is there a Prospect Research Ring, a Foundation Ring, a Corporate Donors Ring or Fundraisers Major Gifts Ring? Not that I know of. Any of these might be very useful. What do you all think? Anyone want to get one started?
Martha T. Murphy
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