I owe James S. Huggins a debt for coming up with the concept of webring welcome pages. These are special pages created just for webrings, in order to make navigation from a webring to our site easier and more efficient.
Special controls allow visitors to go from one site to another, forwards and backwards.
We found webrings soon after we began working on our site about a year ago. It soon became apparent that this would not work as the home page became too cluttered and large. Not only did it take forever to load, but all of these controls make the page look terrible. That worked for a while, but as I joined more webrings it became more and more awkward and took longer and longer to load. This was unacceptable, as webrings are supposed to increase traffic, not scare away visitors.