Re: Ring banners

[Alan Glover <alan@chorazin.org.uk>]

At 14:51 18-09-2000 -0500, Mike & Ginger Woodcock wrote:
>I designed my webring banner and spinner ages ago and would like to keep 
>it.  It has
>
>Previous
>Next
>Skip Previous
>Skip Next
>Previous 5 Sites
>Next 5 Sites
>Random Sites
>List Sites
>Join The Aussie Posse WebRing
>
>Ya know, all the things WebRing used to provide.   I'm thinking I'll have 
>to remake it to use just the buttons allowed by Ringlink, but can I still 
>use a banner made by me to make my ring very individual..??
Hi,
I have some potentially good news for you. Like you, my current Webring 
ring - which I plan to migrate to RingLink very soon - uses prev5/next5 and 
skip next/prev and I didn't want to lose them (especially since I use a 
manually maintained list page with added information about the sites in the 
ring).
I was in discussion with Gunnar before his vacation about this, and got his 
approval to create prev5 and next5 based upon list.pl. I've also done 
skipnext and skipprev, based on next.pl and prev.pl. I mailed the finished 
versions to Gunnar just after his vacation announcement.
Providing he doesn't discover any problems, next5 and prev5 should now 
appear in the next release. It's less clear whether skip next/prev will be 
there since Gunnar is less convinced of their usefulness than I am, but 
they may be made available on some sort of facility for optional components 
that can be added in if ringmasters want to use them.
If you want to use skipnext/skipprev, you'll also need a slightly modified 
lib/gentools.pm, but I'm hoping Gunnar will include that in the release anyway.
If you want to see the new code in action, visit 
http://www.chorazin.org.uk/ringtest/1.htm and try out my 12-site test ring. 
I know the HTML for ring navigation looks tacky - I made it as quickly as 
possible to test out the scripts!
Alan