The Guild of
Renaissance Performers
Net Ring
The Guild of Renaissance Performers
is the Net Ring for anyone (or any group) who performs at
Renaissance or Medieval Faires, SCA events, or other living history
re-enactments.
The key word here is performs.
You must be a participant at these events, not simply a patron.
Candidates for membership in the Guild include (but are not limited to)
- Musicians
- Jugglers, Magicians & other entertainers
- Jousters
- Mock (and Real!) Combat Troups
- Falconers
- Actors, Actress & Performance Artists
- An individual who portrays a specific character at an event
(for example, the gentleman who plays King Henry at the Maryland Renaissance Faire)
- Pirates & other Sea Dogs
- Gamers
- Dancers
If you are a merchant, you might want to consider joining
The League of Renaissance Merchants
instead.
Of course, if you are a performer who sells a product, be it CD or T-shirt or whatever,
you can join both rings!
This would make you a "crossover" artist.
Simply click on the League icon to visit the home page and see if it isn't right for you.
Another type of crossover encouraged by
The Guild of Renaissance Performers
is membership in this Net Ring by other Rings.
For example, if you are the Ringmaster for a Celtic Music web ring,
The Guild would be glad to have you add the home page for your Ring
to this Ring.
The grand vision entails many web rings intersecting each other
in many locations.
Kind of like a basket of yarn after a pride of kittens has played in it.
Following any one strand is impossible; there are so many different
twists and knots that you can easily take off in any direction.
How to Join The Guild
To join
The Guild of Renaissance Performers,
all you have to do is follow these simple steps.
- Decide if you site meets the criteria for inclusion in
The Guild.
-
Submit Your Site
You will receive email confirming that your site has been added to the queue.
Included in this email will be the standard HTML code for the required links.
- Add the Net Ring links
to your site.
Just cut and paste the HTML fragment that was emailed to you when you
submitted your site.
Special Note for AOL Users
- Send an email to
ringmaster2@faire.net
to let the Ringmistress know that your site is ready to be reviewed.
- The Ringmistress will review your site to make sure that the
the Ring links are correct and that your site meets the
criteria for joining
The Guild of Renaissance Performers.
- The Ringmistress will add your site to the Ring.
You will receive email when your site is added.
If you have any problems or questions about this Ring,
please contact the
Ringmistress.
Adding Ring Links
After submitting your site to
The Guild of Renaissance Performers
you need to add the appropriate links to your web site.
You can use the standard HTML fragment that was included in the email
sent to you when you submitted your site, or you can modify the links to
fit the design of your web site.
If you do not want to use the default graphics, please
be sure to change the IMG tags in the HTML fragment after
you add it to your web site.
The links must be added to the page that is listed for your site.
This does not have to be your main page, it may be a links or rings page.
If it is not your main page, the Ringmistress humbly suggests that it
include your site name, and links to other pages on your web site.
This is the only place that Ringmistress will look for the
links, so if they are not here, your site will not be added to
The Guild.
Of course, there are some requirements for the links, too.
- You must use at least one graphic with the Guild's name.
- You must have a link to the Guild's home page.
- You must have at least a Next and a Previous
link (otherwise the ring doesn't work very well).
You can use the graphics found on this page or create your own.
If you do create any neat graphics and want to share them,
send 'em to
the Ringmistress
(that's me) and I'll add them to these pages for everyone to use.
Remember that these links must be in place before your
site can be added to the Ring.
Here are a couple of examples of how to link your site into
The Guild of Renaissance Performers.
To use this HTML fragment on your web page, you must
replace "id=1" by the ID number assigned to your site.
For example, if your site ID is 15, then you
would replace "id=1" by "id=15".
Do not change "ring=renperformer" ("renperformer" is the
Ring ID for this Ring).
Please note that these links will not work correctly
until your site has been moved from the Queue to the Net Ring.
Following the links will simply take you back to this page.
This is normal. In fact, if these links do appear to work
correctly while your site is still in the queue, then you probably
didn't change "id=1" to your own site ID!
This is the "standard" way to implement the HTML links.
In fact, this is the same code fragment that will be emailed
to you after you add your site to the queue.
The copy that will be emailed to you will have your site ID
already added so that all you will have to do is cut and paste
it into your web page.
Example #1
<![CDATA[
<p>
<!--Link to The Guild of Renaissance Performers-->
<p>
<center>
<a href="http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=renperformer;id=1;action=prev" target="_top">
<img src="http://www.faire.net/renperformer/guild-prev.gif" border=0 width=90 height=36>
</a>
<A HREF="http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=renperformer;action=home" target="_top">
<IMG SRC="http://www.faire.net/renperformer/guild-home.gif" border=0 width=100 height=95>
</A>
<a href="http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=renperformer;id=1;action=next" target="_top">
<img src="http://www.faire.net/renperformer/guild-next.gif" border=0 width=90 height=36>
</a>
</center>
]]>
Example #2
This example includes a variety of links in addition to the minimum required links.
This style of Net Ring links is deprecated, that is, the Ringmistress suggests that
you do not use it. It is here so that sites migrating from the old WebRing version of
The Guild of Renaissance Performers
can simply cut and paste the links without changing graphics or format.
<![CDATA[
<!--Link to The Guild of Renaissance Performers-->
<p>
<center>
<table width="60%" cellpadding=2 border=0>
<tr align=center valign=center>
<td width="60%">
<A HREF="http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=renperformer;action=home" target="_top">
<IMG SRC="http://www.faire.net/renperformer/guild-logo.gif" border=0 width=180 height=80>
</A>
</td>
<td width="20%">
A Member of The Guild of Renaissance Performers
</td>
<td width="20%">
<A HREF="http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=renperformer;id=1;action=next" target="_top">
<IMG SRC="http://www.faire.net/renperformer/guild-next2.gif" border=0 width=90 height=80>
</A>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table cellpadding=2 border=2 width="80%">
<tr align=center valign=center>
<td width="14%">
<A href="http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=renperformer;id=1;action=sprev1" target="_top">
Skip Previous</a>
</td>
<td width="14%">
<a href="http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=renperformer;id=1;action=prev" target="_top">
Previous</a>
</td>
<td width="14%">
<a href="http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=renperformer;id=1;action=next" target="_top">
Next</a>
</td>
<td width="14%">
<a href="http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=renperformer;id=1;action=skip1" target="_top">
Skip Next</a>
</td>
<td width="14%">
<a href="http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=renperformer;id=1;action=rand" target="_top">
Random</a>
</td>
<td width="14%">
<a href="http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=renperformer;id=1;action=next5" target="_top">
Next 5</a>
</td>
<td width="14%">
<a href="http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=renperformer;id=1;action=list" target="_top">
List Sites</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
]]>
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A Member of The Guild of Renaissance Performers
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These are only two possible formats for the Ring links.
You can use any style that suites your page as long as you
include at least one graphic with the Guild's name
prominently displayed and a previous and next link.
Special Note for AOL Users
For whatever reason, the AOL email program really messes up the HTML fragment.
The exact same email read with any other email program will be displayed correctly,
but somehow the AOL email program loses the links and keeps the graphics.
Do not use the HTML fragment that is emailed to you.
You must copy one of the HTML fragments from the examples on this page.
Don't forget to replace "id=1" (which is the ID for this page) with the unique
ID that was assigned to your site when you joined.
Link Graphics
Yeah, we don't have many options for graphics ... yet!
Edit your Site Information
Enter your site ID and password below. This will take you to the
Ring Surf site
where you can edit the information about your site.
You can even change your URL.