My-Kerala Ring: FAQs for Webmasters
What is My-Kerala Ring?
The My-Kerala Ring is a well-established ring of Kerala websites authored by Malayalees who are professionals, authors, and lovers of Kerala. By browsing through the Ring sites, you will see a massive showcase of talent and a tremendous variety of Kerala related sites. Whatever your browsing pleasure, there is bound to be something for you.
My-Kerala Ring connect Kerala related homepages maintained by Keralites or people of Kerala origin together in a "ring". Links on each member page allow you to move from one site to the next, allowing one to (eventually) traverse the entire ring and end up where they started. Each site is a link in the chain.
Once we accept your membership, then your homepage will be added as a link in a big chain of Kerala homepages structured in a circular fashion. All members are inter-connected through a navigation palette.
How does My-Kerala Ring work?
A fragment of HTML code inserted in each member page is the connecting link between all the member pages. Once you add the html fragment given to you while you register, you will find a ring palette in your page. This palette act as the control center for navigation and controls the journey from one member page to another in a circular fashion. In essence, the links on each site in the ring provide a means for the ring database to know what site the user is coming from, and where they want to go. (ie, next site, prev site, etc....)
By having the proper information on each site (ring id, site id#) the database then checks to see which "My-Kerala" site is next in line. When the user clicks on one of these links, ring will search the database for the proper information and then send the user to the url of the next site in the ring. The same goes for the list option. The ring will call up a list of all the sites currently in the ring from the database, according to the ring id that was in the link. The random function works in much the same way. But when it gets the id#, it makes sure that the random number that is chosen will not be the current site.
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