Holiday Notice Board

There is some considerable discussion at the moment about the future of webrings and the effects of Yahoo's takeover.
Yahoo took over Geocities who owned Webring in the early part of 1999.  However initially they left it alone,  it was only in September of this year that they moved to a new system which associates Webring and Yahoo membership.
 

There has been some critisism of the new system.
On the positive side however when there system is sorted out maintenace in particular monitoring for broken rings should be automatic.  Another advantage is the automatic inclusion of webring sites within the Yahoo search engine. The new toolbar uses a Java applet which sits on a members page and calls down all the Navbars for that site.
A disadvantage of this is loss of flexibility and loss of originality in the design of the Navbars which have a much more similar look.
Here are a number of links which lead to further discussion on this.

http://www.brightbell.com/hawhp.html                                   Join the Holiday Accomodation Webring

http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/rng1/webrings.htm              What are webrings and which webrings am I in.

http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/rng1/why_no_navbar.htm    Why can't a ringmaster see the Navbar on new sites

http://www.mimanet.com/cgi-bin/rings/main.cgi                      Mimanet

http://internet-tips.net/Advertising/Webrings_010101.htm        Webring Protest Update

http://www.todaystechnologies.com/wmc/index.shtml             Webmaster Central

http://ringmgr.curio.org/guide/                                                A guide to Ring Systems

http://rachelle.net/ringlink/general.html                                   The Ring Link Perl CGI program.