The Free Sheet Music Ring

Introduction

Web surfers

Rules

1. Content
   1. Free sheet music sites
      The ring accepts sites offering free sheet music, either for downloading or for printing directly. Whether you post the music to promote yourself as a composer/musician, to sell your records or any other products or just because you're a nice person, is no concern of mine. Pure music stores with free samples to draw customers are usually not accepted, however.
   2. Link sites
      The ring might also accept pure link sites if they are of particularly high value.
   3. Other sites
      The ring might accept other kinds of sites within the subject (but I can't really imagine what kind of site that would be).

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   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.

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2. Encoding
   A member of the Free Sheet Music 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.
   3. The music must be in a common format easily viewable on Windows, Mavintosh and Unix/Linux computers. In reality this means ABC, GIF, PDF or PNG formats. JPEG (jpg) is accepted but not recommended except for facsimiles. The format simply isn't very useful for black-and-white graphics. Please note that Finale Viewer and Schorch (Sibelius) files are currently not acceped since they are not viewbale on Linux/Unix computers.
   4. Downloadable compressed archives should be in zip- or gnuzip-format.

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3. Finally
   The Free Sheet Music 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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