Holly Hop was founded in an effort to allow people an alternative to the Red Dwarf Webring. I do not have the strict requirements that the Red Dwarf Ring has, but I do have the same love for quality. My commitment is that ANY site that meets my three guidelines can join. This may seem a contradiction to some, but I think if you are going to bother with promoting your site through webrings and advertisements, you should at least bother with making a site to go to.

It seems like I answer this question a lot. When I started my site, Red Dwarf Shuffle, the Red Dwarf Ring (which is an excellent ring by the way) had (and still does) a little message that reads "I check all sites with Lynx" or something to that effect. So I proceeded to download lynx and try to see what the ringmaster would see. I was horrified. Making my site work for Lynx was out of the question, I didn't have a drop of webspace left (this was before my re-working I now have around a meg left). I couldn't even write a link to the text-only page let alone a whole separate site for it (which was really needed, since the whole thing worked through JavaScript).

I certainly appreciate what the Red Dwarf Ring is doing with backward compatibility. After I tried Lynx, I fell in love with it. I love surfing the web and finding all this bad HTML, but my ideal of not being too picky prevails. I also enjoy the "Best Viewed with any browser" site to which I found a link to from the Red Dwarf Ring. I like the the campaign, but I'm not the one to enforce it, and I don't think a ring should be doing that job. The choice to support or reject older browsers (and newer ones) is strictly up to the person who wrote the site. I'm bound to get an email saying how much of a git I am for saying this, so I'll spare you the trouble....

Ryan Smith is a total smeghead. He admits it freely and openly. He's a git. He's a jerk. He's totally dumb. He's worse than Rimmer. He watches slide shows of trees instead of telegraph poles. He's the worst. He's the bottom of the barrel. He's the lowest of the lows. It wasn't even because of his parents. He's just slime.

Ryan worked (resigned) for ZDNet as a chat emcee for their Sci-Fi chat. He is the owner and operator of Red Dwarf Shuffle and once was the ever present lurker on the Red Dwarf Mailing list. He spends most of his time slobbing around and hanging out with online buddies. His ICQ number is 2131912. Give him a ring. See what he says.

GeniMutant (aka Rae Henriksen) is a stylish, well dressed, exquistly groomed...oops, (sorry that would be Cat)...is, well... truthfully much more relaxed, like Lister. She thinks that Pepsi and powdered doughnuts ARE a power breakfast. And although her bike isn't space worthy, she does like to spend quality time in leathers with her V-twin motorcycle. She did not come in a box, nor grow up with perfect Holo-friends- she might be more normal if she had. She also cannot tell you the average rainfall of anything coastal or south americany, nor can she write her name in the snow. To her credit however- she can sing the entire preamble of the constitution of the United States (learned from Saturday morning "School House Rock" comercials, as a wee lass).

Currently GeniMutant works as the "webmaster" (some say "web-mistress"- but that sounds a little kinky) for a small computer stuff, catalog company. She is also the owner and operator of L.A.S.M.'s Red Dwarf Site and a member of "the committee".