Its not as easy I first thought, thats for real. Why should it be, lol!?

So ok, I decided to host it myself, which I still think is a good choice. This involved finding the software to use and in the end taking a chance. Then I put it in a less correct directory before I worked out how it could have worked embedded in an already used path. And the SQL database seemed to be having a problem. Having your own webring means I can change the appearance, veto any advertising, etc but it makes me solely answerable for the administration. Remember I only started to learn code just over a year ago.

Then I had to learn that the dynamic design for the buttons was subject to each member sites css and other constructs. So there were several prototypes of this and some are unfortunately still out there. Why did I use dynamic content - because the content is searchable. Although I did relent and redesign a simple button as a mapped area image - more specifically I got Onyx to do it.

Then there was the SQL database reconstruction that I just had to do and for no known reason. I had a site that broke the ring which led me to wonder about the back-end. So without re-numbering the owners or sites I re-ordered the sites. There were double-ups. The double-ups didn't matter in 2 instances as one was an inactive site but did in others.

So this re-included sites that were being left out, but still stopped on that one site that broke the ring. Some to-ing and fro-ing with the owner, taking out a target=_self tag and replacing the code, it works. This looks to have been a man-made error where the code was grabbed from another member site and not a programme one - human errors can easily be fixed.

Still, is it all worth it? Yes, I think so.