International Maritime Web Ring

Web Ring Owner - Administrator:
Don Pedro's Global Maritime Job Directory

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Maritime Ring History

As far as I know the International Maritime Ring was launched by an Australian before 1997. It was active when I joined in late 2001. About one year later I noticed the Ring wasn't operating anymore, so I thought may be the first administrator had died.

In early 2003 when the Canadian James Shaw tried to join, he noticed the Ring was defunct and he managed later on to take over the administration and reactivate the Ring. In January 2007 James informed me his other obligations were taking too much of his time and asked me if I would take over. I accepted and on April 14, 2007, I officially took the administration into my tender hands.

The intention with the International Maritime Ring is to collect the "cream of the cream" of maritime websites around the world ( regardless of language ) at one single place.

Capt. Peter Forsberg

How do I Join the Ring ?

Is your website definitely a Maritime website? Does it give something Maritime related to your visitors? If the answer is YES - then you can join. If not - then your website cannot be accepted as a member.

Please fill in the membership application form with your website details and click on "Submit". Important: When you fill in your data do also create a password. If you do not anybody can edit your listing, even change your URL and so steal your visitors to another site.

To join the Ring you need to add the Ring ID-picture with the code onto your Home page. Get the code at same time when you submit the membership application form.

If you employ Flash on your entry page, please put the ID-picture together with the code on the page where your "Skip Intro" link points. There are three versions of these pictures, see below.

ID-picture GIF with white background - 11.4 KB, which you get from the "Official" Ring join page together with the code.

When you take the picture the file name is: CFEFE30C5F.gif , before saving the ID-picture change the file name to: imrmap.gif.
ID-pictures, which you get from this page. On this page there are two ID-picture versions: optimized progressive JPG 8.8 KB white background and interlaced GIF with transparent background 12.1 KB, see further down.

After saving the picture version of your choice please go to the "Official" Ring join page and fill in the membership application form with your website data - then click on "Submit". Remember to get the code before you leave that website.

Tables based layout: Copy the code from <div> down to and including the </div> tag.

CSS based positioning: Copy from <span ...> down to and including the </span> tag.

The pictures you download are 300 pixels wide, the smaller size (width 250 pixels) comes from the code. I know it's not recommendable to let the visitor's browser resize the picture. This case is an exception, because the change is asymmetrical. If you change both width and height the picture gets too narrow, there's not enough free space in the ID-picture for that.

I tried to change only width in my image editor, but because it's an asymmetric change the file size increased to over 16 KB, which would be too much.

Upload the picture in the folder were your webpages' pictures are on your server (images ?). The ID-picture "call-up code" is included in the Ring code, it's up to you to choose where on your Home page you put the ID-picture.

Why Use Web Ring ID-Picture ?

Every web ring uses some kind of ID-picture to identify all member sites as belonging to the same group (topic). All web ring members always have the ID-picture on the Home page to identify the whole website being a member.

When you are a member of the International Maritime Web Ring you are entitled to have the Maritime Ring ID-picture on your Home page. It tells both the visitors and search engines your website is really and truly dedicated to maritime matters. You are an "authority" or at least an advanced amateur regarding a certain maritime subject.

Web Ring "ID-Picture" Options

The ID-picture includes links to different parts of the Webring website, like "Join" and "Site List", the latter being a list of all member sites. To make these links work you have to include the code provided. The picture is just a picture and it cannot contain any links by itself.

The "ID-picture" you get at the web ring "join" page is a regular GIF picture (11.4 KB) with white background. On this page I offer you a couple of different options for your choice. Below you can choose between optimized progressive JPG with white background or interlaced GIF with transparent background.

Both progressive JPG and interlaced GIF are downloaded on your visitor's computer gradually and will therefore display gradually while the browser continues downloading rest of the webpage. Especially with a slow connection (dial-up) this means faster display of the whole page. Out of all global visitors to this website about 5-10% have a dial-up connection, which means a data transfer speed of less than 5 KB per second.

Either option you can copy directly from this page into whatever folder you use on your own computer. Put your mouse arrow on the picture, give a "right-hand-click" and choose "Save picture as ..." (IE) or "Save Image as ..." (Firefox). In each case I call the picture "imrmap" - either .jpg or .gif. You can, of course give the ID-picture a different name - if you do, remember to change the name in the Maritime Ring code also.

Optimized Progressive JPG, white background (8.8 KB)

Version 1 - Optimized progressive JPG

This ID-picture is suitable if you are using a white or dark blue background on your Home page.

Interlaced GIF, transparent background (12.1 KB)

Version 2 - Interlaced GIF

This ID-picture is suitable if you are using a coloured background on your Home page. It's in fact the same one as what you find at the very top of this page as well as on my own Home page.

What to do with the Code ?

The piece of code you get when you apply for membership I suggest you just copy and paste into Notepad - temporarily. You will have to make a small change in the code before you paste it onto your home page code page.

The reason is there are unlimited possibilities to choose the name for the folder where a website's pictures are stored on a server. As I absolutely cannot know those names in advance I have chosen to use the word "images" - this represents whatever permutation you use.

First you upload the logo picture you have chosen into same folder where all your other website pictures are. Treat the logo picture exactly same as any of your other pictures.

The picture call-up tag in the Webring code is: <img src="images/imrmap.gif" width=" ...>. If you chose the .gif picture version, then that's OK. If you chose .jpg version then you first change picture file name in the code correspondingly to "imrmap.jpg" . That's all about the picture.

Then you replace the word "images" with the name of your picture folder. Now the code is ready to be pasted into your code page in a place where you want the logo picture to appear. Once you have uploaded the new code page it should look OK. If any problem tell me, please.

Any Problems with This ?

If you have any problems with the picture, the code, or the placement of it, send an e-mail to me and give your URL and tell me what's the problem or what you are trying to do. I'll have a look and try to help.

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