Re: Ring banners

[Mike & Ginger Woodcock <eaglerun@sat.net>]

At 10:31 PM 9/18/00 +0100, you wrote:
>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
Yes Alan,
This is what I'm wanting.  I've got my banner just about how I want it, but 
I really should hold off on moving my ring until Gunnar makes a 
decision.  The artwork is what the links will be put on.  So, changing it 
will mean making a new one.  :-(
g
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