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This Webring is for any site containing information on Science Fiction or Fantasy novels, your own or your favorite author's.
The SiFi Novel Webring links together the websites of people who love to read or write science fiction or fantasy novels and have developed webpages with interesting content about authors, books, themes, or other matters of interest to sf/fantasy fans.
CURRENT MEMBERS:After a brief period with the Yahoos, WEBRING IS ONCE AGAIN INDEPENDENT. If you haven't yet signed up with the new (and independent from Yahoo!) webring, you can do it at login. You probably want to use the same ID & password as you had with Yahoo Webring, to save yourself confusion. You can then associate your ring sites with your new ID so that you can edit and manage them in the future. |
A webring is a method of linking similar sites.
If you are a websurfer, you do not need to keep backtracking to a link page or search page to find the next site of interest: starting from any one site in a ring, you can click "next" to visit another site on the same subject -- or any of the links in a standard navigation box. The same set of navigation links is found on every site in the ring, so you can't get lost.
If you are a site owner,
you do not have to maintain a list of links, adding, changing, and deleting
everytime your friends move their sites around the web. Once you install the
standardized webring links, webring.org will maintain the record of where
those links point to. The network of sites you are linked to expands more
and more, and you never have to update your link page!
The standard webring navigation links are:
The ring may also have a link to information about the ring owner.
The criteria for membership are:
"Content"
means more than a list of books you've read. Ways to increase content could
be: a short review of each book; links to other reviews, the author's own
website, or other information about a book; a list of similar books.
Everybody wants other people to read their webpage. If you
can think of a reason someone would want to read your webpage,
and would benefit by it, then your page has content.
If you write or sell sf/fantasy books, you may join the ring IF your site includes interesting content that doesn't require purchase.
If you feel overwhelmed by all that, but you love sf/fantasy -- apply anyway. Let me see your site and talk it over with you. Let's make the library grow, even if we have to knock down a few walls. :)
RECENT CHANGES: After a brief period with the Yahoos, WEBRING IS ONCE AGAIN INDEPENDENT. You do have to sign up for an ID with Webring.com to join and manage webrings. Management of more than one webring membership is easier than ever. |
If you decide to join, the next step will be filling out an application form. In the URL entry on this form, enter the page you will put the ring code on. If you want to join, fill out an information form about your site. This will build an entry in the webring directory, so that visitors can seach for your site by keyword, or read a description in the webring index list. The page address given on the form will be where webring send visitors to your site. It must be the page you will display the webring code on, or have an easily identifiable link to that page. This should be a page with specific book-content, not necessarily the front page of your site. You may find it conveninet to put all of you webrings on one page. In that case, you need links that go to your relevant content, and back -- or what's the point?
If your page address, email adress, or any other site information changes, please update your entry! The magic of webring cannot work without your help.
I will check your site
and notify you if it qualifies for membership, or if it would qualify with
small changes. (These are usually things like improving the loading speed
or accessibility of your site, which will also improve your general traffic.)
After being added, you will be in "suspended" status until you post
If you have added navbar code to your page once, for any webring, you do not have to add it again. The navbar for the SiFi Novel Ring, or any other new webring you join, will automagically be added to the stack.
The code will become active after you are added to the ring.
If you have any questions not covered here, please email me.
The SiFi Novel Ring is made possible by Webring.