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The Official Bassist Ring

 

Introduction

The Official Bassist Ring is a webring for sites with content about the double bass and the electric bass (bass guitar).

The ring is currently run by me, Frank Nordberg. I did not start this webring, but was asked by webring.com to take over when they lost contact with the original ringmaster.

For a site to be accepted to the ring, it has to meet some requirements. You can click here to read the requirements in detail - here is a short summary:

    To become a member of the ring a site has to:
  1. have content relevant to the ring (yes, I know that should be obvious, but you should have seen some of the submissions I have to reject!),
  2. be reasonably cross-platform and cross-browser compatible,

If you are unsure what a webring is and what it can do for your site, you should have a look at the "For webmasters" page.

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Web surfers

Like all webrings, membership is for sites, not persons. Click here for more details.

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Rules

The purpose of The Official Bassist Ring is to help making information about stringed bass instruments available to the web population. Basically the rules are there to ensure that the member sites really have relevant content, and that they are available to everybody on the internet!
  1. Content
    The site must have some considerable content related to the double bass and/or electric bass. Relevant sites may be be:
    • Information sites
    • Instructional sites
    • Tabs/midis/mp3s/sheet music sites
    • Players' home pages and fan sites
    • Band's home pages and fan sites
    • Manufacturers and retailers of relevant products
  2. The webring banner
    The webring banner must be included on the page that was submitted to the ring. If you don't want the banner on your main page, you can create a special webring entry page for ring submissions.
      To ensure that the banner works properly, it has to be added axactly as instructed.
  3. Encoding
    A member of the The Official Bassist Ring, should be available to the whole web community. That means:
    1. The site must not be browser-specific. It must at least be readable with any version of the following browsers:
      • Netscape Navigator
      • Internet Explorer
      • Opera
      • Konquerer
      • Safari
      • iCab
      This means that you have to be careful with:
      • JavaApplets
      • JavaScript
      • Audiofiles, midifiles and videoclips that start automatically
      • Frames
      • Cascading stylesheets
      • Tables
      • Imagemaps
      • Layers
      • Floating frames
      • Browser specific tags
      That is: you can use all of these, but they must not form an essential part of the site, and they must not be programmed in a way that makes older browsers crash.
    2. The site must be reasonably fast-loading. As a rule of thumb the content of the main page (including all graphics etc.) should not exceed 150 KB.
  4. Finally
    The Official Bassist Ring is run by me, Frank Nordberg. I reserve the right to exclude any site I find unsuitable for the ring for any reason - or with no reason at all.

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Join

If this seems like a good idea to you, and you have a site you think might fit, don't hesitate! Click here to join The Official Bassist Ring!

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