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Revised: 09/21/02 |
General Help
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August 07, 2000 | » | Celestron 5" SCT Ring created on WebRing.org by Pietro.org. |
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September 05, 2000 | » | Yahoo! acquires WebRing.org and the Ring migrates to Yahoo! Webring. |
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October 16, 2001 | » | Yahoo! quits the Ring business. This date our Ring transfers to a new organization: WebRing.com. |
WebRing Surfer Help
The
most useful navigation-tool features on our ring navigation-tool are the sites
listing (ring hub) feature and those that move forward/backward through the member
sites.
Each
member site must maintain the navigation-tool to allow surfers to move onto a
new site in the ring. Most often the tool is found on the bottom of the
entry page, but on some sites you will find a button with our logo (C5-class
telescopes) that can be clicked to reach the navigation tool. This is most
often the case in a "frames" page, with a scrollable index column
on one side that contains this button.
Foreign
language pages can be translated in whole by various translating services on the
web -- such as Cafeglobe.com
LinguaWeb. For instance here is how a Japanese
NexStar-5 site would look in English. Clicking any page link on that site
will cause that page to be translated also. Note that there is a
time-delay due to translations and the possibility that your browser may
time-out. Also, note that the translations are literal and not-context sensitive.
For instance, the word that translates to "cell" is actually the word
for "eyepiece."
List
of sites in our Ring.
The
Join page has information on what kind of sites are
allowed in the Ring and a history of our Navigation tool.
Questions?
Contact the Ringmaster.
Ring Member Help
Editing Your Site's Information
Site members that joined through Webring.org or Yahoo! Webring can only edit their site's information -- URL, description, e-mail, and navigation tool -- by becoming a member of WebRing.com. See History of our Webring to check date of changeover. See next section on migrating your account to WebRing.com. After migration or joining for the first time, you can log into http://dir.webring.com/rw and hit the "My Rings" link on the top bar to access your site information.
As a new feature, the Ringmaster can now edit your site information for you! WebRing.com allows RingMaster's to edit the name, URL, and description of your site in the Ring database and even re-assign your site entry to someone else (how cruel!).
Migrating to WebRing.com
The centralized Ring Navigation functionality was migrated to WebRing.com by the RingMaster. Migration was really just a change in the computer servers that handle users requests to move from site-to-site, list all sites, etc. in the Ring. As such, the change is invisible to you and the users -- everyone's site is still in the Ring. What the individual members of the Ring have to do is migrate their user ID's to WebRing.com so they can edit their site data.
The good news, through all our migrations, is that your existing Ring navigation tool continues to work. So, there is no need to migrate right-away. But doing so gives you access to the new HTML navigation bar. Something to consider if you like the new (smaller) look and want to customize the tool to match your site.
Get Your HTML Navigation Code
If you wish to employ the latest version of the navigation tool (see below), you'll need to login to WebRing.com, with a WebRing.com member ID/Password, to grab it. Login and select the "My Rings" link along page top. Under the Member Tools header, select "View Ring Sites" and click the name of your site. On your site's edit page, click the "Get Navigation Code" link on the left. Ignore the code box on the page that appears and scroll down to the bottom and click the link on the sentence: "Members who wish to use the HTML version of this nav bar should go >>here<<." Copy out the Ring Navigation HTML code from the text box on that page and paste it onto your Celestron 5" SCT specific page. Delete the old navigation tool.
Putting the Navigation Tool on Frame Pages
If you put our Navigation tool on a frames page, make sure it avoids opening other member sites in your target frame. This can be especially devastating if there are more than one frames page in the Ring. (In fact, I was once on a badly designed website that put me three frame pages deep! The target area ended up the size of a postage stamp!)
For narrow frame sites and where space it tight, place the navigation-tool code on a separate page. Employ an image of our logo as a hyperlinked "button" in the frame "contents" column or telescope page. Set the hyperlink to open the navigation-tool page -- new page or replace the existing. The default logo is at: http://www.pietro.org/images/WebRing/Celestron_Web_Ring_Blk_155x67.png, but you can replace the filename with any of these:
| Image File Name | Size | Description |
Celestron_Web_Ring_Blk_155x67.png |
27-kb |
high quality, black background, png image (default) |
Celestron_Web_Ring_Blk_155x67.jpg |
7-kb |
good quality, black background, jpg image |
Celestron_Web_Ring_Wht_155x67.jpg |
13-kb |
good quality, white background, jpg image |
I just ask that one of the above Ring graphics be used, as the commonality of this on each site will help ring-surfers know "at-a-glance" what ring they are on.
