The Music grape vine webring is for the music sites elite. Here you will find sites for music of all kinds that are visually creative and excel in content. From pop to rock, alternative to reggae, find out what the latest news is and learn about different genre's of music. Finally learn the lyrics to songs you have never known. If you have a website you would like to submit here, don't hesitate to apply.
Member Info
If you have already joined the ring, log into ring management here to edit/view your details.
Join The Ring
Rules
The sites accepted into the ring must:
contain information related to music;
be in English (although not neccesarily about English music);
be more than merely lists of links to other sites;
be comprehensible, appealing and updated regularly, minimizing outdated information and dead links.
All sites that are part of the Ring will contain a piece of code that will enable visitors to skip from site to site in the chain. After
following the procedure for joining you will receive an email message containing the code you need to insert in your page. The
code has to be inserted on the main page of your music site, or on a more general main page, from which the music section is
only one, easily found, click away. The code must be on the same URL you have submitted, and not on a link eg: webrings links. The page you submit must only have the Music Grape Vine webring and not a whole list of other webrings. Several webrings but different types is acceptable.
Procedure
Read the rules and make sure you are able to comply with them.
Fill out the form below and click the Submit Site button. This will place you in the queue of sites waiting to get into the
ring. You will shortly receive an email with further instructions, including the HTML code you will have to insert in your page. All sites will be evaluated by the ringmaster prior to activating them in the ring.
NOTE: Sometimes the ring is locked, this is caused by not logging out of management. If you get this message when you try to log in, please try again in 20 or so minutes. My Homepage
No, joining the ring is a two step process. After you fill out the form, you receive the HTML code via email.
After you have inserted this code in your page, it will not be fully functional yet. The links "Previous", "Next", and "Next 5" will not do what
they promise, but they will take the visitor to the Music Grape Vine Homepage instead (this page). Only the "Random site" link will
take the visitor to a site in the ring. Your site will become part of the ring after it has been approved by the ringmaster.
Therefore, after inserting the HTML code in your page, you need to reply to the email that was sent to
you, containing the HTML, asking to be officially activated in the ring. If your site complies with the
Music Grape Vine Ring rules, this will normally happen within 48 hours (and often a lot sooner)
After you fill in the online form to join the ring, you will receive a piece of HTML code via email, that has been customized for
your page. If the format of this code does not look nice in combination with the layout of your page, you may change the code
around. Before activating your site in the ring, I will have a look at it to see if it is working ok.
I make an exception for people who want to keep their page text only.
If you have problems using online forms, you can email me with the name and URL of your site, your name and email address,
and the password you want to use for future modifications. I will then perform the online registration for you and you will
receive the HTML code for your page via email, plus further instructions.
Joining the ring is a two step process. Only the first part of this process is "uncontrolled". Anyone can enter the queue for the
ring and insert the HTML code in his or her page. But only after I have reviewed and approved the new site, I will activate it in
the ring. Until then, none of the existing sites in the ring are linked to this new site.
Please enter the URL of the page dedicated to music. The idea of the ring is that visitors can hop from site to site, looking for
sites about music. They might get confused if suddenly they end up on a different type of homepage. Of course your
music page can contain links to your main page and other pages.
If you do this, people will end up on a page that doesn't contain the Music
Grape Vine ring code and this might confuse them, when they just want to hop from site to site in the ring. Also, the to manage the ring, I use a utility that checks the ring integrity by checking if all
sites in the ring actually contain the code. If you have a specific reason for wanting to follow this approach, please email me to
discuss this, and we can work something out.