Amazing Collections WebRing, an exciting new way to navigate the World Wide Web! This is a free service which allows web sites to be linked together to build traffic and gain exposure.

Amazing Collections WebRing is created by Alvin Chua of Singapore. The purpose of this WebRing is to get netizens together by linking their homepages into a ring. By doing so, not only will we be able to discover amazing sites created by our fellow netizens, we will also be able to get more hits for our personal homepages.

Everyone is welcome to join the Amazing Collections WebRing. Your site will be reviewed by the RingMaster once you have submitted the membership form. If your submission has been rejected, it could mean that your site contains XXX pictures/ materials or maybe your web page is not very well done (i.e. contains too many graphics, error in links). If that is the case, sorry and thank you for your interest in joining the Amazing Collections WebRing.

Step 1 - Register yourself to become a member by filling in a submission form. You will be assigned an id number and your site will be added to the queue.

Step 2 - Download the two gifs below and upload them into your own server. To download, simply right click on the image and select "save image as".

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Step 3 - Insert a html fragment into your web page.

Step 4 - Make changes to the inserted html fragment in your web page by replacing all the _SITE_ID_HERE_ with the id number given to you when you submit the form and changing YOUR_EMAIL and YOUR_NAME to your email address and your name respectively.

When you have completed the four steps above, you will need to wait for the RingMaster to add you in, otherwise you will remain in the queue. If you wish to enter the ring, you may send a mail to the RingMaster to request for it.

[For members only] - Edit site information.

Find out how to get the free Message Board provided by InsideTheWeb.com.

To link your web site to the A.C. Message Board, cut-and-paste the code below into your html.
<!-- Start A.C. Message Board --> <center> <b><a href="http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb35690"> A.C. Message Board</a> </b> </center> <!-- Stop A.C. Message Board -->

1. What is a Webring?
A Webring is a way to group sites with a similar interest together in a "ring". Links on each page allow you to move from one site to the next, allowing one to (eventually) traverse the entire ring and end up where they started.

2. What is a Ringmaster?
The ringmaster or ringmistress (as some prefer to be called) is the person in charge of a particular ring. They are (typically) the ones who create the ring, create the homepage containing information about the ring, and perform various management tasks associated with keeping the ring running smoothly. These include

- answering questions about the ring
- adding sites to the ring (some rings allow current sites in the ring to do this as well)
- removing old or inactive sites from the ring

3. What is a Ring ID?
The Ring ID is a string (sequence of characters) that uniquely identify a particular ring on the Webring server. Ring ID's are composed of letters and numbers, contain no whitespace or punctuation, and are case insensitive (FISH = FiSh = fish).

Whenever someone puts a link to the Webring server to perform some operation or display some information about a ring, the URL will contain a 'ring=___' segment, where ___ is the Ring ID.

4. What is a Site ID?
A Site ID is simply a number that uniquely identifies a particular site in a Webring. Site ID's start at 1 and go up from there. Sites are assigned a Site ID when the site information is submitted to the Queue.

Site ID's never change. They also have absolutely nothing to do with the "order" that sites are arranged in ring. Their sole purpose is to uniquely identify sites in the Webring database. They are listed next to the site in the ring index (http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=___;index) or in Ring Management | Manage Ring Sites. Site ID's are used ONLY on the sites that they were assigned to. Doing this lets webring know where to move FROM in the ring.

5. What is the difference between the Ring and the Queue?
The Webring maintains two lists of sites for each Webring. The first contains all sites that are actually part of the ring of sites. "Next" and "Previous" links on sites on this list should move people from one site to the next.

The other list, called the Queue, is a sort of waiting area for sites that want to join the ring but haven't been approved yet, or have been temporarily moved out of the ring for some reason or other (missing URL, etc.).

When a site wants to join the ring, the site owner will typically fill out a form on the ring homepage with the site title, URL, a description, their e-mail address, and other random information. When this info is submitted, the site is added to the queue and they are assigned a Site ID. It is then up to the ringmaster (or perhaps another member of the ring, if the ring is set up that way) to verify that the new site is actually appropriate/eligible for ring membership and then insert them in the ring.

6. What's a "Ring Fragment" and what's it for?
Another term for Ring Fragment is Ring Code. The later is more commonly referred to when discussing the HTML for rings. Put simply, it is the HTML code that is used to create a navigator that is used to move from one site in the ring to the next. It can also jump over "dead" sites and list the sites that are in the ring. The code will use links to webring that will instruct the server what to do and where to go.

7. How do the links on a typical Webring site work?
In essence, the links on each site in the ring provide a means for the webring database to know what site the user is coming from, and where they want to go.(ie, next site, prev site, etc....) By having the proper information on each site (ring id, site id#) the database then checks to see which site is next in line, and most importantly, what ring. When the user clicks on one of these links, webring will search the database for the proper information and then send the user to the url of the next site in the ring.

The same goes for the list option. The webring will call up a list of all the sites currently in the ring from the database, according to the ring id that was in the link.

The random function works in much the same way. But when it gets the id#, it makes sure that the random number that is chosen will not be the current site.

If you have a site in a Amazing Collections WebRing and need to edit your site information (URL, site name, description, keywords, password), you may do so by entering your Site ID and password below.