The Buick Only Webring Homepage 
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The Buick Only Webring is owned and maintained by  Colin Opheim
It is hosted by the RingSurf Netring system.
 

Joining is easy! Got a Buick site? Get yourself listed on the
 Buick Only Webring!


What is the Buick Only Webring?

The Buick Only Webring is a totally free service offered to the Internet community. It is a quickly growing collection of Buick hobbiests web sites.

The Netring system provides the World Wide Web with a different way to organize web sites. The Webring is a way to group together sites with similar content by linking them together in a circle, or ring.
 
 

How does it work?

The idea is that once you are at one site in the webring, you can click on a "Next" or "Previous" link to go to adjacent sites in the ring and (if you do it long enough) end up where you started.

This is actually something you can do without the Webring system by simply having each page owner link their site to the next. However, when somebody wants to join the ring, someone has to edit their page to point to the new page and (when the ring gets big enough) it becomes more and more difficult to keep the ring "intact" when pages disappear and servers go down.

The Webring provides a solution to all of these problems, as well as numerous enhancements. When you join the Buick Only Webring, the HTML code on your homepage never changes. Links point to a special CGI script at ringsurf.com that will send people to the next (or previous) site in the ring. Because the central ring database is located in one location, sites can be added and removed quickly and easily, and because the Webring CGI allows you go continue past sites that are unreachable, you will always be able to continue around the loop.

The Webring will do quite a few tricks, actually. People can travel a ring in either direction, either jumping to (or skipping) the next site or previous site, list the next five sites in the ring, jump to a random site in the ring, or simply get a list of all pages in the loop. Ideally, if all Buick  sites join the Buick Only ring then webpage owners will no longer have to maintain long lists of links to other Buick sites. And, best of all, the Webring is entirely free!

The benefits of belonging to the ring should be obvious to all. Traffic to the all the sites will increase, information will be easier to get to, and everyone wins.
 
 

How to Join

Joining is simple, easy, and of course..... FREE! There are a few steps to follow, and they are important. Please follow them carefully to avoid complications with the entire 'ring'.

Make sure that your site qualifies

  • Your site is NOT a commercial enterprise, unless it has adequate free information as well, that is on topic!!

  • The page that you 'register' is the one that will be referenced from the 'ring'. This must be the one that has the 'ring' information/code on it. More on that below.

  • You are the owner of the page.

  • People with websites devoted to all year Buicks are encouraged to join. A main rule is that the site address that is registered is the one that must have the code. Having a seperate section for links/webrings are not allowed here, unless that is the site address you registered. If the site is a commercial site, it MUST have adequete free info that is on topic. The ring isn't meant for advertising products, especially if I don't get a cut of the profits...:-)

    • Registering your page

    When you register below, your information is sent to the webring server and is held 'in queue' and also assigns you a site ID number. It then notifies me that you wish to be added to the ring. Now don't give up! This is all for a good cause, remember? I was intimidated when I first ran into this program. It really is a good system, and I believe it has a strong future, especially for sites like ours that are fairly close-knit.
     

      

    1: Submit site to Buick Only II Webring by filling out the form below. You will be emailed your unique code to put on your page with any html editor or Notepad. You may also come back here to edit site information, or log into the ring. It should look like this when finished.



    This Buick Only Webring site is owned by 
    ***SITE OWNER***. 

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    Submit a site to Buick Only Net Ring
    Site Title:
    Site URL:
    Site Owner:
    EMail Address:
    Year of Birth:
    (ie: 1999)
    By law, we cannot collect personal information on anyone under the age of 13. Because of this we do not allow anyone 13 or under to Join a RingSurf Net Ring, or become a Ringmaster, and thus we are forced to ask you to specify your birthdate. If you are under the age of 14, you may not become a member of RingSurf. You may use the Ring Directory and use any existing ring, you just may not start a new ring, or add your website to an existing ring. See our privacy statement if you have any questions on how we handle your personal data.
    Password:
    Keywords:
    Site Description:
    RingSearch
    For:
    In:
    Member Login
    Site ID:
    Password:
    Master Login
    Password:
    Create Your Own

    NetRing!

    2: The final step

    Well, you're almost done, now just send me an e-mail and tell me that you stuck it out this far and that the code is on your page. I will need your ID number that you got when you registered. I will then check your page and if things check out OK with the server, then bingo, we're all done.
     

    Send e-mail to Colin Opheim (webmaster@buickapollo.net)