Re: One Ring To Bind Them

I like one ring as well.  Good point about making categories.  Not sure 
about making mulitple buttons per category as it would make the graphic 
larger.  As a developer I'm not always found of putting a bunch of web
rings 
on a page and especially not large ones.  The page can start looking
like a 
big bulletin board when all you want is a nice little link to the ring. 
It 
would make sense to just catagorize each site by GZG game, miniatures,
etc 
in the list sites section.  This way if you want a specific type of site
you 
can get it from the list or just pick one randomly or in sequence.  This

would also allow for ease of adding new categories over time and
updates.

Mike

Michael Miserendino
Senior Software Engineer
Lincoln Re
mtmiserendino@lnc.com

>>> owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU at internet 10/13 12:45 PM >>>
Nine Rings for GZG Kings....

I agree with the suggestion that the FT ring be renamed the GZG ring
and the graphic be amended accordingly. It is more "inclusionary".

My thought for the GZG ring was just that if I'm looking to find and
SG2 thingie, I have to hop through FT links to get there. I'm not
saying the GZG ring is overcrowded for what it is, but it is lacking
if you want to just look through stuff for a particular game.

But let's advance another idea for disussion and hope some of our Web
Gurus will speak to it:

Right now, our web ring provides single hop travel, five hop travel,
random travel, and html-formatted listing. These are good (though I've
hit a few sites where the one-hop travel just leads to itself).

Would it be feasible to put a selection on the graphic (make it a tad
bigger) that shows the list but only shows FT sites, another for SG
sites, and another for DS2 sites? I'm sure somewhere that when you
register a site for the list, you could just select what categories it
would cover, and when the html list was generated for the ring, if the
user selected that option instead of grabbing the full list, you could
just grab the ones that had the SG2 tag.

Is this at all reasonable? It would make searching the ring for the
kind of stuff you want to get to (if you have less ecclectic interests
or a specific search goal) possible.

Also, would it be hard to write a search engine tool that used the
ring list as a "target space" and searched those sites and their
linked pages for what you wanted? ie I want to find leader loss
checks, but I have no idea they are on Jed Sadler's page. I would love
to be able to type in "Leader Loss" and somewhere convenient and have
it spitback results from the ring pages. This would be in preference
to the use of a full fledged search engine which might or might not
ever get anything from the ring in its 11456 hits on leader loss.....

Is this possible or at all feasible?

Thomas Barclay
Software UberMensch
xwave solutions
(613) 831-2018 x 3008