Overview
Being a webpage maintainer
for over a year, maintaining comic pages such as Wolverine's R.E.A.L.M.,
Shattestar Page, and Nova Express, I had found that one of the
best way to help get the word out about your page is not only
submitting links to your pages to search engines like Yahoo,
Altavista, etc., but by joining a webring, too. These webrings links
sites that shares the theme of the webring to each other, thus helping
to get more people to see your webpages if they decide to search
completely through a webring.
But as the comic webrings
grew, I began to notice how many of the comic webring's aim was to
get as much sites as possible to link up to the ring. This is a great
way to help the people who are members of those rings to get more
traffic to their website. But, as a result, more and more people are
joining these rings with pages that just barely makes the cut as a
true comic book / animation related page. The quality of these pages
are suffering, and "ringsurfers" are beginning to ignore these huge
comic webrings because they figure that "hey, these sites on this
webring just aren't worth surfing through anymore because they're
never updated and the site just doesn't have any new pictures or
information that interests me."
Purpose of this
Webring
The purpose of me creating
this webring is to showcase the pages that are true, high-quality,
comic and/or animation-related pages that with one glance at the page,
the websurfer will know that the knight webmaster of this page has
put countless number of hours into making his/her page one of the
best out there. This includes comic books,
anime/manga, and cartoon animation websites. What makes this unique
though is that this ring will only showcase
the best of the best. Only these pages that contains high
quality images that are hardly found elsewhere on the web, information
that will prove to be meaningful to the viewers of the webpage, and
are updated at least once a month will be found on this page, for
these ringmasters of these unique webpages are the true Knight
of Comics. The keyword here, my friend, is uniqueness. Their webpages may not
be huge (for I know the limitations of what people can do with their
limited webspace), but their pages are those that are noteworthy of
taking a look at because they're unique.
Whether it be unique images, fan fiction, art, information, etc., only
these webmasters whose pages that will make the websurfer leaving
his/her page learning at least one valuable thing from that page
rightfully earns the title of a Knight of Comics.
A word, my friend: do not be
discouraged if you apply for membership to be deemed a Knight of Comics on this ring and is
denied it. In fact, I highly encourage you to reapply for admission.
All I ask is that before you reapply, put a little more effort into
your webpage. Fix the links, add some refreshing new graphics that are
hardly seen on the web. Include some new information that you might
have just learned about your character / team / theme. All I require
is that you put a little bit more effort on your page, and I don't
mean just a 3-4 hour job on it. Effort, my friend, is when you devote
countless number of hours doing research, created new graphics (I
would consider editing other people's graphics as new, as long as it
is visible that you have put some editing work into the pictures).
Like in the past, squires were not knighted overnight. They had to
put countless hours of both physical and mental training to earn the
right to knighthood. In your case, all I ask is that you put effort
into your webpage and that it has to be visible. That's all that I
ask for, and if it is clear you have worked hard on your webpage, then
and only then will you have earned the right to be called a Knight of Comics.
Knights of Comics
Webring
Requirements
Application
Obligations