Finding a darts website....

Once you find a darts website you generally look at the information that you came there to find you go on you merry way to continue your web surfing for other items that you have marked as a favorite, or do a search for something else that you need to find.

Now what if you really just want to look up more stuff about darts? Do you just keep entering search terms into YAHOO or GOOGLE? Well most of the time a search engine is the only choice that you have unless you stumble onto a darts site that has an extensive list of links to other darts sites, or that is linked to other sites by belonging to a group called a "webring."

The concept behind the webring is simple. Someone wrote a small bit of code that web masters can place into their webpage that will link it to other websites that share the same subject matter, darts in this case. When you are done with the page you are on you click next on the link on the webring logo and surf on to the next darts website. Now the thing that bugged me about webring is that several of the sites in the ring were not up to date, or the sites where no longer operating, so for that reason I have not completely bought in to whole the webring concept. Now don't get me wrong I still use webring from time to time.

But there is progress and things improve as always. In the past few months two new players have entered the picture. The first of the two is http://www.darts100.com/ by Ricky Nickolson (he also is the web master for http://www.theoche.com )

How it works:
A www.darts100.com logo (counter) is placed on a page (the code is included by the web master), and that page should be counted when viewed. The hope is that the list is to take some of the popularity of the upper rated sites, and hopefully spread it around to some of the sites that may not be in the mainstream. So far the site sends out a lot more hits to sites than we get coming in. It would seem that once people get to our site, they go out and visit several others on the list.

The newest kid on this block is http://darts.gotop100.com/ by Andy Fair of Superstars of Darts (a popular British darts site) and seems to modeled after Ricky's site.

So far web masters are singing on to both of these sites, and hopefully the hit counters theses sites provide will help us avoid the frustrations of dead links in webrings.