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Who doesn’t like an upgrade?

(heads up, this might be dull for some of you, but if you are currently using the ivp ring code on your blog keep reading)

A couple of years ago I decided to start a webring for all of the blogs that I noticed had a similar theme as mine. I used a site that did nothing but organize blogs into rings and slowly the collection of blogs began to build. The thing that I liked about the ring was that it linked us all together so that if someone was reading my blog they could simply click “next” and find themselves at another blog that was about alternative reproduction (more on that in a moment).

However the code for the ring was bulky and unattractive and basically a pain in the ass. The parent site of the ring also began to use that obnoxious ad code all over it. So if you were clicking through the ring the top section of your browser would drop down with a navigation bar. In addition to the name of the blog you were viewing you might find an ad for SPERM! VIAGRA! MISCARRIAGE! and other such nonsense that no one needs to have shouted at them. It was annoying at first and then it just became inappropriate.

I began a massive search for how to create my own webring but never really grasped how difficult it was. So I started getting nosy. I wanted to see what other software or sites folks were using. Many of them were stuck in the same obnoxious advertising trap that I was, but the majority of them were actually just regular old websites with a giant blogroll.

Hell, I can do that!

And so the morph is happening. The new and improved IVP webring has been created. This site is an image free, quick loading site with only a list of blogs. It is not meant to replace the infertility blogroll, but to be small and easily identifiable group.

The IVP is The Internet Vagina Posse and is comprised of women from all walks of life in all stages of a journey. The linking thread is that we are having to use alternative reproduction to create our families. I guess now is a good time to explain what I mean by that. Alternative as defined by the dictionary is “employing or following nontraditional or unconventional ideas, methods, etc.; existing outside the establishment”. So if you are trying to create your family in a way that differs from what you learned in 8th grade sex-ed put on your flannel shirt, because you, my dear friend, are alternative.

The prize of joining  the ring is a small bit of swag to put in your side bar that lets visitors know that you hang with The IVP. Please e-mail or comment here for the sidebar swag code.

If you signed up to the original webring your blog has already been added but do know that I will no longer be monitoring the ring and eventually it will be eaten up by tacky 00gle ads.

Also, a little bit of a teaser, Friday will be a big upgrade for me in the appearance arena. Yes, Marta, there will be photos. And no, Jude, I am not getting a boob job.

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