Webring
 

Has anyone ever though of starting a 'webring' between first team's websites?

What would you guys think of something like that?

We'd need some site to act as the "Home" (and mabey someone to register www.firstwebring.org and have it point at that site) The site could either be a team's site, or a number of teams could share in the design of a independent site. Also, someone could design a cool logo that links to the home.

I don't have any time to put into this, but just a thought that might be a cool idea.

i'm going to try set something up like this tonight.

look for a post tomorrow.

*jeremy

Re: Webring
 

I'd be happy to talk it over with my team. We're setting up a dedicated server at a local sponsor/ISP, so we'll be able to do it. However, we're a rookie team..and between scrambling to finish our robot and scrambling to get this server up and running and scrambling to finish our website, we probably wouldn't have time to do it until after the brunt of FIRST is over.
I'd be willing to buy the domain and work on the site in "my spare time", though: at least once march 8th is past.

--Petey

Your submission software is great for this, Jeremy.
So, are we looking toward a temporary database and a move toward a permanent ring after the madness?

--Petey

We should have Sparky's Web Site up soon, so I'll add it to the webring.

There was one a year or two ago. We used be a part of it, and have links to it it on our main page. It seemed to be unkept and many of the links went down, and so I removed it.

I'm basing it off the link submission code from our site yes... :)

I reserved www.firstwebring.tk ...

I can't exactly order a top level domain right now, i will hopefully soon.

If you go to the link and nothing works it's because i'm still working on it and i don't want to put a temporary document up....i'll post here again when i'm completely done (should be in < one hour)

during that time, please do check out our site and see what it has to offer... :)

hope to see your pages up there soon!

*jeremy

I'll see if I can buy it after school, Jeremy. We'll be working on our server all afternoon.

What do we want...www.firstwebring.org? I've got an acccount on stargateinc.com and I can just add it thru there.

--Petey

My ideas:

www.firstwebring.com (since most places use com than anything else)
www.firstteamswebring.com
www.firstroboticswebring.com

Those are my ideas.

I think firstwebring is fine, but what the appendage is is a different question.
Firstwebring.com
Firstwebring.net
Firstwebring.org

These are all available.
I was thinking about trying firstteams, but then you run into the ugly double T.
Though .org might be more correct, we'll get more traffic from a .com or a .net, but the best from a .com. Price doesn't matter...

So, general consensus time: What should I grab?

--Petey

I vote for www.firstwebring.com

Moderator... anyone, doesnt mater which. can you place a poll for the three options? that would be cool

I have the script done...adding the finishing touches now. :)

You can check it out at www.firstubergeeks.com/webring

*jeremy

not sure if anyone has allready registered, but eventhough many sites are .com, i do think that this would be better firstwebring.org

And, nice job especially Jeremy_Mc for making a script for this. (Heck, I only posted this like 16 hours ago)

Also, just a little question. Because it takes like 48 hours for a DNS to resolve, what happens if two people buy the same domain at roughly the same time? - anybody know?

the Übergeeks will be happy to host the script also...

(we can change the look of it from what it is now...i just thought i'd integrate it into the übergeeks site for ease of construction)

We're on a dual 800 MHz with 512 MB of DDR with 2 x 30 GB SCSI drives all connected to a DS-3 connection.

It'll save us some money on hosting :) and you can easily point the domain there...just tell what the domain is and i'll setup the DNS/virtual host this afternoon

*jeremy