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-# webring
-Just a web ring.
+# Webring
+
+This webring is an attempt to inspire artists and developers friends to create and maintain their own website and share traffic among each other.
+
+The webring's aim is to share personal websites such as diaries, wikis, bookmark lists, portfolios. To add yourself to the ring, submit a pull request to this repository. 
+
+## Join the webring
+
+Add your website url to the [index.html](https://github.com/XXIIVV/webring/edit/master/index.html), and add the webring icon to your website html. Alternatively, if you your website has a dark background, use `icon.white.svg`.
+
+```
+<a href='http://webring.xxiivv.com/' target='_blank'><img src='http://webring.xxiivv.com/icon.black.svg'/></a>
+```
+
+## Need Help?
+
+The ring master is [@neauoire](http://twitter.com/neauoire), but any member of the network is also welcome to join this repository as a collaborator to help manage new links and Pull Requests. Read more [here](http://wiki.xxiivv.com/webring).