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Welcome
To All Amateur Radio Web Site
Editors!
If
you are reading this, you are probably interested
in adding your web site to the
ARRL Great Lakes Division Web Ring!
GREAT! Like you, I love Amateur
Radio! This WebRing is a great way for us to
surf our Division Web Sites.
What
is the ARRL Great Lakes Division
WebRing?
It's
a system that links Amateur Radio web sites (like
yours) together. It benefits everyone by helping
others interested in Amateur Radio find your site
easier.
Read the details below on how to add your site to
the ring. This service is ABSOLUTELY
FREE!
Please join today! Please read the
FAQ
for additional information.
Gary
Johnston KI4LA
RingMaster, of the ARRL Great Lakes Division
WebRing
If
you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail
me. I'd be glad to help.
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INFO
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First Letter of Subject
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How
does it work?
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How
to Join
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Registering
your page
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Submit
your site to the Division
WebRing
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HTML
Code for WebRing on your site
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Be
sure and change the following
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How
the code will appear on your
page
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The
final step
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Maintaining
your link
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Read
the FAQ - Very Important!
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NOTE:
This site is not hosted by the
American
Radio Relay League (ARRL).
The ARRL is the national association for Amateur
Radio. I host this site for the
benefit of all Amateur Radio "Hams" throughout the
Great Lakes Division.
Gary
Johnston KI4LA
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WebRing
Technology by WebRing
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How
does it work?
The idea is that once you are at one site in the WebRing,
you can click on a "Next" or "Previous" link to go to
adjacent sites in the ring and (if you do it long enough)
you end up where you started.
This is actually something you can do without the WebRing
system by simply having each page owner link their site to
the next. 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 disappear and
servers go down.
The WebRing
provides a solution to all of these problems, as well as
numerous enhancements. When you join the ARRL Great Lakes
Division WebRing, the HTML code on your homepage never
changes. Links point to a special CGI script at WebRing.org
that will send people to the next (or previous) site in the
ring. Because the central ring database is located in
one location, sites can be added and removed quickly and
easily, and because the WebRing CGI allows you to continue
past sites that are unreachable, you will always be able to
continue around the loop.
The WebRing
will do quite a few tricks, actually. People can travel a
ring in either direction, either jumping to (or skipping)
the next site or previous site, list the next five sites in
the ring, jump to a random site in the ring, or simply get a
list of all pages in the loop. Ideally, if all
Division sites join the Great Lakes Division ring then
web page owners will no longer have to maintain long lists
of links to other Division sites. And, best of all, the
WebRing is entirely free!
The benefits
of belonging to the ring should be obvious to all. Traffic
to the all the sites will increase, information will be
easier to get to, and everyone wins.
How
to Join the ARRL Great Lakes Division WebRing
Joining is simple, easy, and of
course.....FREE! There
are a few steps to follow, and they are important.
Please follow them carefully to avoid complications
with the entire 'ring'.
Please
read the FAQ
for additional information.
Make sure that your site qualifies by meeting the following
criteria.
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You
own or maintain the web page being
registered.
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Your
site is Amateur Radio related, and located in
Kentucky, Michigan, or Ohio.
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The
page that you 'register' is the one that will be
referenced from the 'ring'. This must be the one
that has the 'ring' information on it. More on that
below.
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Registering
your page
When
you register below, your information is sent to the WebRing
server and is held 'in queue' and also assigns you a site ID
number. It then notifies me that you wish to be added to the
ring. Now don't give up! This is all for a good cause,
remember? I was intimidated when I first ran into this
program. It really is a good system, and I believe it has a
strong future, especially for sites like ours that are
fairly close-knit. Please read the
FAQ
for additional information.
1:
Submit your site to the Great Lakes Division WebRing
Enter
your information below and click on Submit Site. You will be
given a unique site ID number, write that number down
somewhere. Add the HTML coding below to the page which you
have just registered. You will need to replace "YOUR ID
#HERE" with the site id number the WebRing system assigns
you. The purpose of the ring is to link Amateur
Radio pages together, and the link needs to be on the main
area. Place it anywhere you like. Most of these 'rings' want
the link at the top, but I feel it's your page and your
work, so let's aim for the bottom of the page where it's
easy to find, after site visitors have had a chance to
browse your site.
Please
read the FAQ
for additional information.
2:
HTML Code to put the WebRing on your site.
Copy
and Paste the following code into your HTML document
using an HTML editor or Notepad. The areas in
RED
need
to be changed.
Please
read the FAQ
for additional information.
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<div align="center"><table
border="3" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"
width="471"> <tr> <th
width="500" align="center"><p><img
src="http://greatlakes.arrl.org/Images/GLDWebRing.jpg"
width="250" height="25" border="0" alt="ARRL
Great Lakes Division WebRing">
<br> This <a
href="http://greatlakes.arrl.org">ARRL Great
Lakes Division</a> <br> site is
maintained by <a
href="mailto:YOUR E-MAIL
ADDRESS
HERE">YOUR NAME
& CALL SIGN HERE
</a><br>
Join the <a
href="http://greatlakes.arrl.org/webring.htm">ARRL
Great Lakes Division
WebRing</a></th> </tr>
<tr>
<th width="459" align="center"><p>|
<a
href="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=arrl&id=YOUR
ID #HERE&sprev" target="_top">Skip
Prev</a> | <a
href="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=arrl&id=YOUR
ID #HERE&prev"
target="_top">Prev</a> | <a
href="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=arrl&id=YOUR
ID #HERE&next"
target="_top">Next</a> | <a
href="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=arrl&id=YOUR
ID #HERE&skip" target="_top">Skip
Next</a> | <a
href="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?random&ring=arrl"
target="_top">Random</a> | <a
href="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=arrl&id=YOUR
ID #HERE&next5" target="_top">Next
5</a> | <a
href="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=arrl&list"
target="_top">List Sites</a>
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</tr>
</table></div>
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Be sure and change the following after you paste the
code
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YOUR
E-MAIL ADDRESS HERE:
Replace with your e-mail
address.
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YOUR
NAME & CALL SIGN HERE:
Replace with your name and call
sign.
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YOUR
ID #HERE:
Replace with your Site ID number from
registration e-mail.
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If
you are into using frames, (well, of course it's
more work!) you have to edit all the references to
include the TARGET="_top" and add all this code to
your NO FRAMES section. But you will enjoy doing
this. You must like it if you are messing with a
pile of those frames in the FIRST place.
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4:
This is how the above code should appear on your
page
5: The final step
You're
almost done. Please send me an e-mail and tell me
that you made it this far, and that the HTML code above
is on your page. I will need the ID number that you got
when you registered. I will then check your page
and if things check out OK with the server, I will admit
your site to the WebRing, and we're all done.
Send e-mail to Gary
Johnston KI4LA
Maintaining
your link
If
you ever need to edit or modify the site information you
entered, that can be taken care of right here! (That's
why you have a password.)
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The
Great Lakes Division Webring
