Hiya!

Thank you so much for your interest in this webring... I really do hope that you will consider joining us!  :o)

If you have a family safe PaintShop Pro website that offers tutorials written with Beginner to Intermediate level artists in mind, then you are welcomed to join this webring with open arms!

How do you know if your tutorials are suitable for Beginners to Intermediate? 

Well, the way I give the levels on my tutorials is to think back to the first couple of months after you opened PSP for the very first time.  Would you have been able to follow your tutorials back then and been able to come up with a similar result to those that your tutorial is teaching?  If the answer is "yes" your tutorial is suitable for Beginners and you are more than welcome to join this ring!

If you wouldn't have been able to follow your tutorial within the first couple of months of opening up PSP, don't give up!!  Think to about 6 months to a year down the line (although everyone learns at different speeds).  What had you learned by then?  What did you know how to do and what did you still find difficult?  If you have a tutorial that you could have managed around that time then you have a tutorial suitable for Intermediates and you are more than welcome to join this ring!

I think I'm at about Intermediate level now but it's taken me almost 18 months to get here.  If I can follow your tutorial and your site is family safe, you are in!

Things that'll make me go "hmmm" about your site are plug-ins.  I can't get plug-ins to work on my machine so I don't know what sort of level the tutorials are for that use them.  If I can follow your tutorial just by looking at your screenshots and recreate something similar in PSP, you're in, but I tend to think that Plug-ins are for more Advanced users. 

That doesn't mean that if you've got a tutorial that uses plug-ins you won't be accepted though!!  Give it a try!  I look through every site that applies to join this ring and you've got nothing to lose but everything to gain!  Give it a try!  :o)

The one thing that I definitely *will* say "no" to is node editing.  I just can't do it even after 18 months.  Again, that doesn't mean that if you've got a whole site full of tutorials and just 1 of those uses nodes you shouldn't apply... far from it!!  It's just if *all* your tutorials use node editing.  As I said above... apply and see what happens...  you might be surprised!!  <grin>

I really would love it if you joined this webring - I would like this to be a webring where the newer users of PSP know that they will find exactly what they are looking for on the websites in this ring and that they will be able to do these tutorials too! 

There are lots of websites out there that offer tutorials for Advanced users but there seem to be very few that offer things for the Beginners and Intermediates.  I'd like to start to change that by providing this webring for everyone to use so that they know that what they see on these sites they will definitely be able to do.

When you apply to join, please put the webring code up on your website as soon as possible... I'm pretty easy about how long I wait, but anything over 2 weeks and I start getting a bit impatient and anything over a month and you'll be rejected - sorry!

You need to make sure that your code is up on the same page that you put into webring when you signed up to join this webring.  For example, if you put the URL www.mysite.com for the URL you need to put your fragment on your very first page.  If the URL you put into webring was www.mysite.com/webrings.htm you need to put the code on your webrings page.

When the webring code is up on your site, log back into Webring and "test" your website.  If it comes up as "fails" there's a link you can follow to reorder your stack of webrings... have a bit of a play around with the order and keep testing until it comes up saying "passes"... this is the first thing I look for when I get a message that someone would like to join the webring - if your code isn't up and it doesn't show as "passes" I won't go any further until it does.  Sorry!

OK, so your code is up and it's all working.  What next?  Now you sit back and wait!  :o)  I'll go and have a look around your website and make sure that it's family safe and that your tutorials are suitable for Beginner and/or Intermediate level.

When I've had a chance to have a good look around you'll get a message from me via webring - you'll either be approved or denied.  If I've approved you, you don't need to do anything else... just sit back and wait for the visitors to find your website.  If you have been denied, have a look in the message to see why I have denied your website.  Most things can be easily fixed - when you've got it fixed you are more than welcome to re-apply to the ring again!  :o)

Think you like the sound of this ring?  Want to help to try and make this the best ring on the internet for Beginner and Intermediate tutorials?  If the answer to either or both of those questions is yes and you meet the requirements of the ring then hit the "Join Webring" button below!  I can't wait to see your website!  :o)