The WebRing.com System

How to Use Your Own Graphics in the Navbar

This page explains how to use your own graphics in your webring navbar in the WebRing.com system.

Summary

	This is the new logo for the WebRing.com system, implemented in their changes of Oct.2006. It distinguishes this webring system from the other systems like Ringlink, RingSurf and Bravenet. See also my articles: WebRing.com Logos and Is Webring a Trademark?

The WebRing.com system includes the facility to provide and use your own graphic in the navigation bar (navbar).

Whether you use the system standard navbar or customize the navbar, either way you can still specify your own graphic.

This page explains how to specify the graphic to the system. It also explains how to reference the graphic if you customize the navbar.

Specifying Your Own Navbar Graphic

1. Go to http://dir.webring.com
    
2. Log in using your WebRing.com System User ID.
    
3. Click on "My Rings" (in the upper right portion of the page).
    
4. Identify the particular webring for which you want to specify your own graphic and click on "Manage" for that webring (on the right side of the page).
    
5. Click on "Navigation Code" in the Customization area of your webring management links.
    
6. Click on "Navbar Logo" (underneath "Customize Navigation Bar"
    
7. You now have a choice. You can
    
   1. Upload a file of up to 4KB.
       
   2. Specify a file on your own server.
       
8. Choose which of these you wish to do and specify the file to upload from your PC or the URL of a graphic on your server. (Whichever option you choose, blank out the other option.)
    
9. Click on the "Apply Changes" button. 

Using the Navbar Graphic

If you are using the system "standard" navbar, you do not need to do anything to use the navbar graphic. Once you have uploaded it, the system will place it in the navbar automatically.

If you are customizing the HTML for your navbar, then you must reference the image URL of the uploaded graphic to use it.

To do this, you use a "tag" that the system will automatically replace with the actual URL of your graphic. The "tag" for the navbar logo URL is

"--navbarlogourl--".

To use this, just place that in your code as you would an actual URL. For example:

<img src="--navbarlogourl--"
width="50" height="50" border="0">

Before the system delivers the code onto the stack, it will substitute the actual URL of your graphic.

A Personal Note:
If You Want to Delete Your Webring

If you are considering deleting your WebRing.com webring, please do not delete it. Instead, please contact me . I would be pleased to adopt it from you. I will personally work with you to make that transition smooth and painless.

I'm sorry. While I have long adopted webrings in the WebRing.com system, because of the Oct.2006 changes, I am no longer doing that.

However, please note that "deleting" your webring is a fruitless exercise. The system will just restore it and place it up for adoption.

Webring News and Announcements

WebRing.com Changes Big Time ---  It was October 2001 that WebRing.com came into existence following the end of Yahoo! Webring. Now, 5 years later, WebRing.com is changing again. Moving from primarily a free service to primarily a paid service, the system is undergoing massive change. Stay tuned.

Ringlink Activity  ---  While Ringlink has not released a new version since Version 3.2 on 21.Feb.2005, the system seems to be getting a lot of activity. Many people are discovering this great webring system and moving their webrings here. If you don't know about Ringlink, definitely check out this great webring system. I personally recommend it.

WoW  ---  The World of Webrings features the World of Webrings discussion list. It offers a forum for both webring owners (ringmasters) and webring members to discuss the latest hot topics about all webrings, including WebRing.com, Ringlink , Alt-Webring, RingSurf, Bravenet and others. If you belong to any webring in any webring service, you should join this list.

RingSurf Passes 3 Year Anniversary  ---  It was 3 years ago, on 16.Aug.2003 when the WoW list list noted that RingSurf's domain name registration had changed. Then the new owner came forward. A RingSurf Feature List was developed and debated. Then, on Thanksgiving day, 27.Nov.2003 the new owner posted on the WoW list that the new RingSurf is up! If you haven't checked it out lately, see what has happened in the last three years.

Article About Webrings  ---  Check out this excellent Salon.com article about the history of Yahoo! and WebRing.com: The Strange Saga of Yahoo and Webring . For some, it will bring back memories. For others, it will explain the history. Now, I wonder if they will update it to talk about the latest WebRing.com changes.

Articles About the WebRing.com System

Webring Sections and Subsections

The Webring Section is a large section of my website. I have divided it into four major "subsections".

• General Information
• The WebRing.com System
• Webrings I Own and Belong To
• The Wazillion Navbars Project

Each "subsection" has it's own special "logo".

As you travel in the various subsections you will find, near the bottom of each page, links to pages within that subsection and also links to the other subsections. To go to any subsection, just click on the "logo" or on the text link for that subsection.

Webrings: General Information

This subsection includes general information about webrings. Webrings can be hosted by a variety of different services. This section deals with the overall concepts and issues, not with any one particular "brand" of webring.

It includes my Webring FAQ, links to articles about webrings, and general help information. Click here or on the graphic.

The Wazillion Navbars Project

This subsection is a historical section about the Yahoo! WebRing system. It was begun during the early days of problems with the Yahoo! WebRing system in September 2000.

It ended when the Yahoo! WebRing system spun off into the independent WebRing.com system in October 2001. I maintain it for the historical record. Click here or on the graphic.

Webrings I Own and Belong To

This subsection shows all the webrings I own and links to all the webrings to which I belong. This includes webrings in Ringlink, RingSurf, Bravenet and the WebRing.com system as well.

If you are looking to join one of my webrings, this is a good place to start. If you wonder about the webrings I belong to, this is the place to go. Click here or on the graphic.

Last updated:
16:46, Fri, 27.Jun.2008