
About webrings (1/2): What is a webring? A question that many new internet users ask. It's almost impossible to encounter a personal site that doesn't belong to one or more webrings. The answer is simple; a webring exists from different sites 'linked' to each other by means of a simple piece of code that every site owner has put somewhere on his pages. Thus forming a ring existing from sites all linked with each other. For almost every interest group there is an abundance of rings to choose from. From the hairless dog ring to the Ring of Glitter Goths. If we get a bit more technical: the difference between the ring code and the basic html link is that the ring code doesn't link directly to another site. By giving every site in the ring it's own ID number it's possible to go one number up in the list (Next), but also to go one lower (Previous), to a random site in the ring and so on. This is possible because of a piece of CGI scripting hosted on the Webring servers which the ring code refers to.