You still have an option for a HTML link, look at the bottom of the page giving the cgi script link, and you will see a less obvious link to the HTML alternative, which they really don't want you to use!!
cheers, Dr Colin Parsons, Ringmaster of Z88 Ring http://www.colinfparsons.btinternet.co.uk/twinp/colhome/z88.htm > > Cheers Dilwyn. > > First problem is that I have the old HTML code for the webring stuff, and it > doesn't have the link to where I needed to go - so I switched over to your > web page and linked from there :o) > > Once there, it seems that I never managed to migrate sucessfully from Yahoo > to Webring - hardly surprising really, I remember much wailing and gnashing > of teeth - so I had to migrate first. Of course, I didn't have a user id, so > I had to register for one of those (stack return addresses now building up > nicely ...) and then do the migration. After that, I waited, and waited and > eventually, I have a migrated web site. > > Now I can edit it, oops, have to login again, so I change the URL from the > old one to the new one. I even get the updated navbar code and add it to the > page - oops, using an external style sheet b*gg*rs up the nav bar if there > is an entry for TABLE. Still, now I have the URL changed. > > Except, the web ring list still has the old one listed - but I presume this > is just a matter of time for some database or other to be updated. Listing > my sites shows that I now have two sites in the list rather than just one. > I'm allowed the option of deleting the NEW site, but only allowed to edit > the old one. > > As Dilwyn points out, the 'user interface' for the webring system is about a > user friendly as a cornered rat. And, they ask you to pay money to support > it ................. Hmmm ! (Ok, if more people paid up, I suppose the > interface could be improved ...) > > Hopefully, my correct website will be on the ring soon. > > Cheers, > Norman. > > ------------------------------------- > Norman Dunbar > Database/Unix administrator > Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: 0113 289 6265 > Fax: 0113 289 3146 > URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com > ------------------------------------- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 7:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Web ring > > > > >From the link on a webring piece of code (it's first link on mine) go > to that site and login (unless it's kept a record of your login from > your computer): > > <SNIP> > > This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and > may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you > must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy > it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the > addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email > and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx > Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
