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Old 02-02-2007, 11:56 AM   #9
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Originally posted by jj:
if you want to digest some fellow fan emotion, this is always a good browse, thx to our archive/webmaster

http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/BDCARD1.HTM

...assuming you can get by the midis
LOL
Actually that birthday card archive is thanks to David Sims
who once had a fine geocities GL site from where with perspicacity I had saved the birthday card pages back in 1997
Unfortunately after David abandoned his dedicated site he started a Yahoo "fan club" group at:-
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group...ghtfootfanclub
but latterly it has been afflicted with the irrelevant and mindless spam that is affecting many such groups and sites
going back to Mike's question funnily enough I had thought of starting a new topic with a very similar title myself,
The reason being that I fuly intend in the fairly near future doing what I have planned to do for a very long time and that
is to properly set up a Gordon Lightfoot webring
As that wiki explains at its start:-
"To be a part of the webring, each site has a common navigation bar; it contains links to the previous and next site"
Note in particular the reference to a "Navigation Bar"

Typical Navbar for the Ferrari webring
It is obviously not possible to add such a bar to many sites that I want to feature in such a webring
For example Google Group's presentation of the moribund Newsgroup alt.music.lightfoot
http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
Although as Valerie has just commented in an email to me
"I'm afraid the newsgroup is essentially dead."
That is obviously true but it remains as an extensive archive of thousands of messages over the last 13 years and is an excellent resource for research etc
In fact the organisation I used to set up such a ring (for free) a long time ago, http://www.webring.org
actually checks every site in a ring and if it does not feature a navigation bar it is automatically removed
I worked out a workaround for this many moons ago;which is to write a "portal" page for every site I wish to include in my ring.
On that page I would then describe its purpose and history and provide a clickable link to the actual website
plus include the all important navigation bar of course
I would also like to list on the portal page what I consider to be the highlights of that particular site
In the case of corfid I intend two portals one for the site as a whole linking to:-
http://www.corfid.com
and the other to the Discussion Forums
linking to the summary page at:-
http://www.corfid.notlong.com
Obviously the highlights of the forums should include some of the best threads (topics) that
newbie Mike is asking about here.
So any thoughts would be appreciated
To get the ball rolling I think most would agree that the two topics initiated by that long absent "stationmaster" fellow
(Lorne now busy selling toilets on the rock I believe) are worthy of attention:-
1.Topic: Sounds like a lyric...
6 pages starting at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...c;f=1;t=003673
and the 29 pages comprising his immensely popular and enjoyable quiz
topic: "PICTURE" that song...
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=002499#000000
and I must not forget the
"corfid member map"
that was started by Watchman Al in the small talk forum then referred to by BillW at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=003558#000000
There was a confusing period of non-access during which two other topics started
Topic: CORFID member map
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=004106#000000
and
Topic: NEW map location http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=004109#000001

OK that is more than enough reading (and chuckling) to keep Mike busy for a while but if anybody has a favo(u)rite old topic
that they think should be listed on my webring portal page I would apprceciate you posting it here
and Of course there is the non participant (nowadays) Sheryl's fine first concert report at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...c;f=1;t=003140

[ February 09, 2007, 09:25: Message edited by: johnfowles ]
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