So, don't *expect* help, BUT having said that, you can get some really great help if a good seasoned veteran is online.  If you need help, however, your best bet is to use one of the support forums.  Those ARE monitored by staff.

At WebRing:

• Login to your WebRINg account, or click to you My Account area
• Click the URLs tab, find the tripod site
• Click the Get SSNB Code link
• Copy the code shown in the upper text area.  this will be pasted in below

At Tripod:

• Login to your Tripod account
• Click to edit the site
• Click addons
• find Custom HTML, drag to your site screen
• Click the edit control for it once placed on the page
• Paste in the SSNB code you copy from your WebRing screen
• Save the custom HTML window, all it to 'fix erros automatically' if that comes up
• Save the page
• Publish the page

Make sure to return to your WebRing area, click the Memberships tab and go to your site maintenance area and click the TEST link to have the system checker examine the code.

At WebRing:

• Login to your WebRing account, or click to you My Account area
• Click the URLs tab, find the tripod site
• Click the Get SSNB Code link
• Copy the code shown in the upper text area.  this will be pasted in below

At GoDaddy:

• Login to your GoDaddyaccount
• Select 'Websites -> website tonight management'
  
• Launch it
  
• Go to Content Manager
• Find and select the add or edit modules tool
  
• Select 'Insert -> Script'
  
• Paste the coed you copied from WebRing
  
• Preview and move around on your page as needed
  
• Publish the page

Make sure to return to your WebRing area, click the Memberships tab and go to your site maintenance area and click the TEST link to have the system checker examine the code.

A 'hub' is the WebRing webpage that lists the active members of a ring.  It exists to attract users to a ring by presenting a list of member sites to choose from.  Because the hub is given a title, description and logo along with the member site list it often places much higher in search engine results than the individual sites can, enabling the 'hub' to attract more visitors.  The hub enables the 'sum' to be more visible than the individual parts.

You may only be pending in five WebRings at a time as a free member, but you may join as many rings as you want (once you're no longer pending in five) and it never costs anything.  If you are active in WebRing and earn activity points, you may even be able to adopt existing WebRings without spending any cash!

WebRing also offers a premium membership (WebRing 2.0) that costs $36 a year. Some of the perks of a 2.0 membership include the following:

• Pending memberships in as many as 20 rings at once.  
• Personal rep to answer your questions
• Top site placement in rings you belong to
• Top ring placement in the WebRing directory
• Ability to suppress site ads
• Ability to show your own advertising banner on your ring's hub page
• Customizable profile page
• First peek at new WebRing features and functions

You are not required to do any of these things, but you may find them enjoyable or even lucrative. Want to upgrade?

1. Go to your My Account page.
2. Click the settings link in the upper left of the screen, under your profile image, to open the Edit Profile page.
   
3. Near the top of your Edit Profile page, click Account Settings to open your Account Settings page.

On the Account Settings page, you can change your password. Remember to scroll down and click the "I agree. Change my info." button to officially change your password.

1. Go to your My Account page.
2. Scroll down and click the Edit Profile tab to open the Edit Profile page.
   
3. Near the top of your Edit Profile page, click "Account Settings" to open your Account Settings page.

On the Account Settings page, you can change your email address. Then scroll down and click the "I agree. Change my info." button to officially change your email. Remember to check your email account for a verification link. Your WebRing account will be limited if you do not verify your email address after changing it.

WebRing does not currently offer a 2.0 level lifetime membership which can be redeemed via Activity Points; however, you can retain your 2.0 membership at a rate of 300 AP's per month as long as WebRing continues to offer it.

1. Log into WebRing and view your My Account page.
2. Scroll down and click the Memberships tab to open the list of your ring memberships.
3. Click on your Site Title(s) to bring up the Edit Site Information page.  
4. Find and click the "Delete Site from Ring" link in the left column of that page.
5. Repeat this process until you have deleted your site(s) from all the rings you belong to. (There is no way to do this for all rings at once.  It must be done one ring at a time.)

If you manage any rings, you must dispose of them. You may transfer management to another member of the ring, or to some other WebRing member, or you may delete a ring that has no members.

Once all your memberships are deleted, you will find the "Delete This User ID" link in the left column of your My Account page. Once you click that link, you will end your membership in WebRing.

1. Add the navigation code to your site.
   
2. Verify that the navigation code is properly inserted by using WebRing "Wizard" link found on the Membership Information tab of your My Account page.
3. Verify that the NavBar is fully visible and operational on your registered URL
4. Ascertain that your page content is well suited for the community you are planning to join.
5. Visit the ring you want to join and apply to it.
6. Wait for the ring's manager to either approve or deny your application.

If you have not heard from the ring manager after a week, send him/her a note. If you still have not heard from him/her after another week, contact WebRing support.

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I lost my password. What do I do?
Use the Need help signing in? link on the login page to have your password sent to your registerd email account.

If you don't receive it (check your junk/bulk folder), OR if you've changed your email address and forgot to update your account then contact support using teh member support forum.  Be sure to include your User ID when asking for help, and anything else (like PART of your email - don't use the whole to avoid spamming - or your site URL, etc) to help us be sure we're talking with the rightful owner of the account.

2.  Visit the ring's hub page.  If you know the URL great.  If not, enter some keywords in the search box at the top of your My Account (or directory, or front page) and search for the ring.

3.  Once on the hub page, find the "Add your site to this ring" or JOIN link (could be big green box, but will be there in any case) and click

4.  Follow the instructions which will vary from here depending whether you already have the navigation code on your page or not, are a member or not....

5.  If you need to install the navigation code on your page then do so right away.  If you put it off you'll forget about it and some managers will deny your membership (even though they should only base their decision on content).

If you have been an active member of a WebRing and suddenly your site is no longer in the member list, chances are you have been suspended or deleted from the site. One last reason you may be unable to find your site in the member list is if the ring is very large; you may be lost in a sea of members.  You may want to consider paying a small monthly fee to be featured in that ring.  That way, your site will always be listed right at the top!

It's a more powerful way for users to quickly narrow down their search to just the right topic, or ring.  They can further refine their search by searching 'within the ring' from the ring's hub page

There is one exception:  Premium members have their sites added to the results.  It's an extra perk for being a premium member.

Make sure that your NavBar displays correctly on the URL that you have in your account settings. If nothing further happens, contact the Ring Manager and ask if there is a problem.

The NavBar allows visitors to navigate from one member site to another, within a given ring, and also shows the world you are a member of a certain ring.  A NavBar helps to collect statistics about the traffic coming to your site from WebRing and to WebRing from your site.  The NavBar is NOT an ad and does NOT monitor your activities or in any other way invade your privacy.

The navbar that shows on a member's website is determined by the ring, or rings, that the website has been submitted to.

First, the look of the SSNB NavBars are decided and set by the Ring Manager, so generally, they cannot be changed by ring members, unless you decide to personalize your navbar.

Second, with permission from your ring manager, you can choose to use the HTML code version of the ring NavBar and adjust it if you need to. This is not a recommended approach as the HTML version occasionally requires updates and are specific to one ring only.

Third, if you are the manager of a ring, you can change the look of the NavBar by going to the "Navigation Code" link under Customization in the management settings for the ring in question.

If you decide to use the HTML code, you must place the HTML code for each ring you join on each URL you submit to those rings.

WebRing highly recommends the use of the SSNB code.

If you have not personalized your navbar then your display is displaying as the default. The navbar that shows is either the first in your list (which you can change), OR the ring the user is currently navigating.

If you are the second case and wish to show more (or all) then please visit the Membership Information tab in your My Account area and click the edit settings link for the URL you wish to configure. That page has a number of options available to change how your navbar(s) display.

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How do I "personalize" my navbar, and what does that mean?
You can configure some of what shows (like ring navbar logo, copyright, etc) as well as colors for your navbar so that it will look nicer on your site.

To personalize, visit the Membership Information tab in your My Account area and click teh Get SSNB Code link for the URL you'd like to work with. On that page you will see teh link to personalize your navbar near the top.

Warning: when you personalize the system will only display ONE navbar (see single navbar answer above) and no link to your full list if you belong to more than one ring. In essence you are given almost complete control over what displays, so if you DO belong to more than one ring and you want to link to your full list you need to add the link to your page yourself. That link is part of the optional noscript part of the SSNB code. Just make sure it's outside the noscript tags!

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How do I add a NavBar to my Blogspot blog?
Blogspot is fairly direct:

• Sign into your WebRing account and goto your Membership Information tab, then click the Get SSNB Code link for your blogspot URL.
• In another window sign into your Blogspot account
• Go to the 'design' area
• click the 'add a gadget' link
• Find the HTML/Javascript gadget
• Enter a title (like 'WebRings') and paste the SSNB code into the box and click save
• Slide the gadget to where you want it on your page
• click the save button to save the whole blog page

That should be it.  As always go to your member management area for the ring you have submitted the site  to and click the TEST link to have the system verify the code.

• Sign into your WebRing account and goto your Membership Information tab, then click the Get SSNB Code link for your webs.com URL.
• In another window sign into your Webs.com account
• Click the Edit Website link, or if you pages are listed mouse over the proper one and click teh edit link.
• click the 'Content Box' to add one, or edit an existing one.
• Find the HTML button in the toolbar, and click it. A window will open
• Paste the SSNB code into the box and click "Insert HTML". a hard to read preview box gets displayed on yourpage. Don't worry.
• Click publish (green button upper right of screen). a box shows asking what to do next, click publish all pages.

That should be it.  As always go to your member management area for the ring you have submitted the site to and click the TEST link to have the system verify the code.

• Sign into your WebRing account and goto your Membership Information tab, then click the Get SSNB Code link for your webs.com URL.
• In another window sign into your Weebly.com account
• Click the blue Edit Site button
• Drag teh Custom HTML gadget onto the page
• Paste in the code you copied from WebRing
• Click publish (orange button upper right of screen).

That should be it.  As always go to your member management area for the ring you have submitted the site to and click the TEST link to have the system verify the code.

• Log in to your WebRIng account, go to your Membership Information tab and click the Get SSNB Code for your WordPress page
• In another window log into your WordPress account and bring up your page to edit
• Click the "Appearance" link
• Find the text widget (arbitrary text and HTML), and drag to your page
• Paste in the SSNB code from your WebRIng window and save

Sign in and go to edit the page you registered with WebRing.  That's where the code will go.

Click Insert then select more gadgets.  Your defaulted into 'featured" gadgets. Click the public link to access all.

Enter 'Embed Script' in the search and submit it.

Look for the Embed script that says 'Enter the SRC attribute of the SCRIPT tag' and click that one

In the src text box enter the src portion of the SSNB code assigned to the URL you registered at WebRing (get it from the Membership Information tab, then Get SSNB Code link there).

Set the width to about 500 and height to around 250.  You can cehck or uncheck the other options.

Save it, view it and don't forget to go to your site maintenance screen on WebRing to TEST it.  that will speed your acceptance into the ring in most cases.

At WebRing:

• Login to your WebRing account, or click to you My Account area
• Click the Membership Information tab, find the tripod site
• Click the Get SSNB Code link
• Copy the code shown in the upper text area.  this will be pasted in below

At WIX:

• Login to your WIX account
• Click the editor to load site editor
• In the upper left (should be, look around) find Widgets and click that
• Select HTML, then blank HTML from that group of choices
• Position and stretch/shape the object as needed 
• Click 'settings' to edit it (find on right side)
• Paste the SSNB code copied from WebRing
• Click OK/Accept
• Click on the Publish button/link near the top

Check your site after to see it's there THEN:
Important:  Contact WebRing support using the member support forum to get your site *manually* passed.  The system checker cannot 'read' the flash page created.

• Sign in to Joomla in one window and WebRinng in another
• On WebRing: From your memberships tab in the My Account area click the site title to access the site management area.
• Choose the "Get Navigation Code" link on the left (should be second in the list) You'll want to copy the code shown on that page to your Joomla page.
• On Joomla: From main screen go to front page manager
• Click on page to edit
• When wysiwyg editor opens, click toggle editor at the bottom, or the html button in wysiwyg, either way you need to access the HTML source.
• Paste HTML version from WebRing into the page (at the bottom we suggest). You may have to wrap with <tr><td> and closing tags depending on where you place it.
• Save it.

At WebRing:

• Login to your WebRing account, or click to you My Account area
• Click the Membership Information tab, find the tripod site
• Click the Get SSNB Code link
• Copy the code shown in the upper text area.  this will be pasted in below

• Sign in and go to: Website applications then Edit website
• Click site URL or open it for editng
• Select add new element then more then widget/html
• Paste in the code
• Save the changes
• You can move the placment up or down 1 slot at a time with up/dwn arrow when you mouse over

First, you have to add the navigation code as ring specific HTML (see faq entry for needing to use HTML instead of SSNB).

Second, like microsoft live and a few others, they 'obfuscate' and intercept links, so the system checker is not able to see if you have added the code or not.  Why do they do this?  Big companies have small brains and fragile egos...Well, they do so so they can put up interstitial ads, track your actins, etc.

The bottom line is that you'll have to ask for a 'manual review' of your site once you add teh code and see that it 'sort of works'  use the member support forum here to ask for a manual review.

Do not delete your membership(s). All you need to do is edit the information about the site.

1. Log into WebRing and view the "URLs" tab of your My Account page.
2. Find the URL in question and click the edit settings link.

On this page you may change any or all of the following:  the URL of your page, the page's title and its description.  Change the old URL to the new one, and if the title or description needs a change, do that too.  Click the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page when you've finished.

You do this once only. The system will update all the membership you have for that URL entry.

• multiply.com
• WordPress when hosted by WordPress
• MS live we think
• MySpace
• Joomla

1.  Delete if the site is not appropriate for the ring in terms of content

2.  Otherwise, suspend it if for some reason it should not be active in the ring (i.e., missing code, code obscuerd or on a links page and you don't accept thos, etc).  In other words, if there is a problem but the problem *could* be fixed, then suspend.

For another option:

3.  If code is OK, and in the right place etc. but the site is 'not quite right' for the ring - this will most often be because it is a commercial site selling items *related* to the ring (like a car cover site in a Ford ring, or pet supplies in a breed ring, etc) then you can flag the sites as *associated* in the Manage Members screen.  The site gets to stay in the ring, but on a different tab on the hub page from the main sites.

1. Begin by clicking on DIRECTORY in the menu at the top of any page. 
   
2. Click on the category in which you think your ring will fit.
3. Drill down until you've become as specific as possible, and see if any identical or extremely similar rings already exist.  (If they do, you may want to consider joining one of them instead of creating your own.)  If you think your WebRing will be unique...
4. Scroll down, find and click on the CREATE A RING tab, then follow the instructions that will follow.
   

NOTE:  If you have failing code, or manage a ring or two with less than four active members, you will not be permitted to create a ring of your own until those issues are resolved.  In addition, you will need to have a URL (web page) ready to submit to your own ring, so it will have at least one member!

You get quite a bit of warning. The only way you will not know about losing your ring ahead of time is if you do not have a current email address in your Account settings.

Once you have been removed as manager, WebRing will either appoint a manager or put the Ring up for Auction.

1. Click on "Promote Your Site"
2. Check the box that says "YES! I would like the ring's manager to consider featuring this site."
3. Enter an amount you would like to pay to have your site featured.
4. Click the "Submit" button to save your changes.

1. Log in and go to the ring's hub page.
2. Click on "Edit Site Information" under Membership Tools. 
   
3. Change the site's URL, title or description on the page that opens. 
   

These changes will only apply to your site in that particular WebRing and will not affect the information for the URL in the rings it belongs to.

You can change the information for a URL in all the rings it belongs to at once. This is called a global change. To do so...

1. Log in and view the Membership Information tab of your My Account page. Note: if you have a LOT of sites you may have two tabs, a memberships tab and a URLs tab. Use the URLs tab in this case.
2. Find the URL for which you wish to change the site information.
3. Click the "edit settings" link found below the URL you wish to change.
   

On the page that opens you can change a lot of things, including the URL itself (not recommended unless you have made a typo), the title and the description.  If you change the title and/or description here, it will be changed for all the rings it belongs to (globally).