Continuing Home

The ongoing saga of a Continuing Anglican church home, as seen by a member of the laity.

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Continuing Anglican Blogs II

I've been encountering difficulties getting a webring set up. There appear to be two main methods to doing this: 1) setting up a "self-hosted" system using software that's been made available for this, and 2) using a system hosted by a service such as RingSurf or WebRing. I do not have the time for maintaining a self-hosted system on an ongoing basis, but the two prime servers are being really troublesome.

RingSurf (the best candidate) seems like it should be really easy to set up, but they seem not to like certain e-mail hosts (Hotmail). Despite their promise to answer all e-mails, continuing_home At hotmail.com has yet to hear from them. And so the set-up process is dead, partway through.

WebRing suffers from being extremely poorly documented and slings a number of undefined acronyms and terms at the would-be user. Nevertheless, I got it set up... but the Javascript navigation panel they provided messed up the blog's configuration. I think the panel can be reconfigured, but.... it's extremely poorly documented.

I'm still working on it, but only as I have time.

8/02: Some progress noted in the comments.

5 Comments:

  • At 5:10 AM, Blogger J. Gordon Anderson said…

    We'll just keep waiting! Thanks for your hard work. It will be great once it is all set up!

     
  • At 2:24 PM, Blogger Albion Land said…

    Please.

    What is webring?

     
  • At 1:10 PM, Blogger Continuing Home said…

    Ah. I responded backchannel to albion's webring question, not realizing the question was posted here.

    In any event I think I have found a good webring host, one that will allow easily-customized "navigation bars" that can be pasted onto your blogs.

    There's a bit of work involved; one has to set up a "webring home page" that describes the focus of the webring (Continuing Anglican bloggers), how to join, the HTML code to pasted on webring sites (this is a requirement of joining, by the way), graphics and more.

    I've seen some pretty elaborate navigation bars; this one will likely be kept pretty simple.

     
  • At 5:46 PM, Blogger Continuing Home said…

    I am making some progress towards the getting a web ring set up. One of the necessary elements is creating a homepage for the web ring.

    You can get a rough idea of how that's going to look here: http://st-bartholomews.org/webring/

     
  • At 6:15 PM, Blogger Continuing Home said…

    Now have the basic navigation bars (horizontal and vertical orientations) drawn, and the accompanying HTML to create links out of the images generated. Moving right along... (http://st-bartholomews.org/webring/
    )

     

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