G'day folks, I've got enuf interest from people to go ahead and set up the Estes web-ring. Actually with the ISP the ring is registered on, it's called a site-ring. Same thing. :) If you are interested in joining, the prerequistite is, naturally, that you have a pre-existing webpage that has some connection with Estes genealogy (I wont be picky .. as long as it's even slightly Estes-themed I'll ok it). If you dont have an estes web page, but plan on having one in the future, let me know when you have it up - no matter how rough. First you need to register your web site with Bravenet. Note that only the ring-master (that is, me) has to join Bravenet. Members of the ring do not have to join and the only details you need supply are your email address (which can be kept confidential, but I need it to approve your site), the title and address of the web site and a brief description and a list of keywords. The url for registering is (load the following and click "join"): http://pub23.bravenet.com/sitering/list.php?usernum=1934470708 (That's the homepage for the Estes web-ring .. err, site-ring *grin*). Alternatively you can go to my Estes web page (the main one) and click the "join" button on the site-ring menu. It's at the top of my main Estes web page. That will take you to the above url. Once you've filled in the details for registering, you will be asked to cut and paste some html script into your Estes web page. How you do that will depend on how you manage your web site. Until you've included the relevant code in your web page and put the updated version of the file on your web site I can't approve the page (a bravehart limitation). This of course means only html/htm/shmtl/etc pages can be linked. No text pages. You will then get an email notifing you that you've successfully registered and this email will also include the html code you need to paste in - just in case you didn't save it before. I will also be emailed and asked to approve the site. When I'm next online I will then check your site and, if the site-ring code is in place, I will be able to approve placement in the site-ring. The ring is now set up. I did a trial run and registered the web page on my Estes site that contains the list of contacts for Estes researchers .. and the whole process, including registration and inserting the html code into the web page, took less than 5 minutes. I will endeavour to approve sites the same day I get the application, but of course this will depend on how much time I have to be online .. if not one day then it will be the next. However, since I am in Australia, time zone's may make the delay appear to be several days so dont think I'm ignoring you! If you have any questions etc, then don't hesitate to email me and ask. And .. the more people we can get onto this ring, the more successful it'll be. It's not "my" ring .. it's _your's_! cheers, David. -- The universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queerer than we *can* imagine - J. B. S. Haldane DC2.D A+++! L^ Pfwl Bfl Fo R+++! Ac+ J-- S++ Fr+++! I+ H++ $ M V+++ Cag http://xenon.triode.net.au/~dragon mailto:dragon@triode.net.au