This is the homepage for the Ocicat Ring. Started in March of 1997,
to promote Ocicats and their humans. Ocicat Ring contains homepages
for Ocicats and Ocicat owners, all linked together in a circular
fashion. From any Ocicat Ring site one can click on a
Next Site link
( example in the Ring Links below )
to reach the next page in the ring. Continually doing so would
eventually bring you back to where you started, after navigating
the entire ring.
Note: I am not a graphic artist. I would
like to thank Julie M. Loats for providing the new graphics for
this page and for the member pages.
Originally, WebRing.org hosted the Ocicat Ring.
Since the WebRing concept was fairly new, there were growing pains,
but everything was tripping along smoothly.
Then the WebRing system grew too big for the people at WebRing.org to
handle everything. They looked for a large partner and found Yahoo!
Yahoo! chose to change the underlying nature of the WebRing engine
to give them a little more control, and to make things a little
more automatic.
A good side effect of this is that the ring members needed to know
less about HTML than before. A bad side effect of this is that it
became much harder to solve problems. The Ring Members (you) and
the Ring Master (me) had less ability to manage the ring internals.
We also have no contact point within the Yahoo!
Ring Management Team to ask questions or voice complaints or make
suggestions. Very frustrating!
So I searched for an alternative and found RingSurf.
They use the original style of Ring Database Management that
WebRing.org originally had in place, with all the fixes and
improvements that WebRing.org had implemented before Yahoo!
took over, and new fixes and improvements.
I created the RingSurf Ocicat Net-Ring as a replacement for
the Yahoo! Ocicat WebRing. If enough members get frustrated,
or if I get sufficiently frustrated, with Yahoo!, then I'll ask
everyone to move over to the RingSurf Ocicat Net-Ring
and close out the Yahoo! Ocicat WebRing.
UPDATE!
Yahoo! gave up!
Yahoo! gave the Web-Ring system back to the originators.
It is now called WebRing.com (instead of WebRing.org).
They are correcting the problems introduced by Yahoo!, but are
keeping the improvements.
This means that the HTML fragment is larger than it was under Yahoo!,
but still lots smaller than it was in the original
WebRing system. It takes advantage of the smarter database that
Yahoo! introduced, but functions in older browsers that don't
have JavaScript (or newer browsers that have JavaScript turned off).
The sad side effect is that you need to replace your HTML fragment
yet again.
See Ocicat Ring Yahoo Notes for instructions to get your replacement HTML fragment.
The criteria to become part of the Ocicat Ring are:
You must be an Ocicat owner, breeder, trainer, or otherwise have
a special interest in Ocicats!
It is OK to be a site that deals with other breeds as well as
Ocicats
NO obscene language! NO pornographic sites! NO pay sites.
NO put downs to your visitors!
If your site meets the above criteria, then please click the "Join Now"
link in the Ocicat Ring section above, and follow
the instructions there. Then click your browser's BACK button until you return to this page.
NOTE: The WebRing engine really wants to have this HTML
fragment on your actual site page, the one whose URL you entered in
the form. Things don't work very well if the HTML fragment is
only in some other page, even if that
page is referenced by your main page.
You may put the HTML fragment on more than one page at your site
so it is always available to your visitors. Just as long as it
is on the main page.
The idea is to allow people to read your ocicat site main page,
then click on the Next Site link and continue
around the ring. If they have to go to another page to find the
Next Site link, they may leave the ring and go
elsewhere.
The Ring System will let me know in an e-Mail that you have
applied to join the ring. I will look at
your page to make sure the Ocicat WebRing HTML
fragment on your page is okay.
After checking out your page, I will add your site to the
ring as a full member.
You should then receive an e-mail telling you that you've been added.
That's it! You should now be able to navigate the entire ring until
to make it back to your own page. An easy way to make sure it is working
is to go click the Previous link, then click that site's
Next link to see if it takes you to your own page.
Add the Navigation Bar HTML code to your main site page.
NOTE: The WebRing engine really wants to have this HTML
fragment on your actual site page, the one whose URL you entered
in the form. Things don't work very well if the HTML fragment
is only in some other page, even if that page is
referenced by your main page.
You may put the HTML fragment on more than one page at your site so
it is always available
to your visitors. Just as long as it is on the main page.
The idea is to allow people to read your Ocicat site main page,
then click on the Next Site link and continue
around the ring. If they have to go to another page to find the
Next Site link, they may leave the ring
and go elsewhere.
The Ring System will let me know in an e-Mail that you have
applied to join the ring. I will
look at your page to make sure the Ocicat WebRing
HTML fragment on your page is okay.
After checking out your page, I will add your site to the ring
as a full member.
You should then receive an e-mail telling you that you've been added.
That's it! You should now be able to navigate the entire ring until
to make it back to your own page. An easy way to make sure it is working
is to go click the Previous link, then click that site's
Next link to see if it takes you to your own page.
Be sure to visit the
Beaudot Ocicat's Forum,
hosted by
Beaudot Ocicats.
