NHI POLICY ON LINKS TO AND FROM OTHER WEBSITES

The NHI website covers a number of distinct areas of interest. Because of this we maintain a number of different link pages. This document spells out our policies with regards to links both from and to other websites. If you wish to create a link to or from our site please read this page before contacting us

General policy

• We do not care for sites that play music, movies, etc. without asking the user first.
• We generally will not to link to sites that are buried in banner ads and web rings with no sign of real content.
• We particularly like ones that do not shut out various browsers by the heavy use of javascript, flash, frames, or which expect the user to have a specific, particular browser.
• As supporters of accessible websites, we like sites that meet the Bobby standard. In particular we dislike sites that use graphics as links without providing "alt text" for the use of those viewing with graphics turned off.
• If you write to us requesting a link, please use a sensible subject-line in your email, or we may simply delete your email unread, thinking it to be SPAM.
• Don't write and just say — look at this website — as we probably won't. Tell us briefly what the site is, why a link from our site would be appropriate, which page we should link to it from, and quote the full URL beginning http://
• Whilst reciprocal links are often entertained, they should never be made a condition of linking. There must always be a reason, usually related to content, why a link is appropriate. A reciprocal link (either from us or to us) may not always be appropriate. Links for the sake of creating links are useless to readers of the page and denigrate the value of other links.
• We regularly check our links using the Xenu linkchecker. Links that fail the check may be removed quickly, but often we will wait a time and try again manually before removing the link as sometimes a site may be down only temporarily.

NHI Main Links Page

• Our main links page includes links to writing resources, literary bodies and other sites that don't fit into the catagories catered for by our more specific links pages.
• We tend to quickly remove sites that fail the Xenu link check.

Haiku Links

• Our main haiku links page generally only considers links to sites that adhere to our main policies, and contain content that is consistent with modern views of the genre.

• Haiku Articles links to specific pages containing relevant articles, whether on haiku sites or more general sites.
• Haiku Reviews only links to reviews carried on the NHI Review site.

Magazine links

• Here we link both to ezines and the websites of printed magazines — mainly poetry magazines, but also some fiction and general literary magazines.
• We try not to link to sites that promote competitions heavily, nor to ezines that do not publish proper guidelines for authors.
• Sites that treat writers with disrespect will not be linked to.

New Zealand & Singapore Links

This page only links to those sites that are relevant to the places we visited during our March 2001 visit to The Land of the Long White Cloud.

New Hope International Review

• Individual review pages carry links, where available, to publishers and authors' websites.
• Publishers should view the Notes for Publishers for more information.
• The separate Review links page is a summary of the individual links on the review pages. It is designed mainly for use by the webmaster in checking the validity of those links.

Photographic links

• This page links to photographic sites that we find intersting.
• We tend to link only to sites that comply with our general policies and are easily navigated.

Poets/writers links

• This page links to web pages belonging to individual writers, particularly poets.
• We tend to link only to sites that comply with our general policies and contain informative content.
• Most of the authors whose sites we link to will have a connection with NHI in some way or other.

Publisher links

• This page links to the websites of publishers.
• We favour links to small press publishers, provided their sites fit in with our general policies on links.
• We do not knowingly link to vanity publishers.

Tameside on the Internet

• Links to internet sites concerned with the people, places, businesses, sports, leisure, government, history &c of Tameside.
• We are no longer attempting to link to every single site with a Tameside connection.
• Instead we are concentrating on those that are interesting, informative and accessible.

Yorkshire Dialect

This Survey of Yorkshire Dialect on the Internet has links to sites publishing Yorkshire dialect writing or concerned with the study of Yorkshire dialect. It excludes sites with only a passing reference to dialect.

Links to NHI

We welcome sites that link to our pages. However, we do request that site managers email us and tell us when they link to us. Often the first indication we have is when we spot such a link in our daily web statistics. Since these statistics are quite large and difficult to analyse, we do not view them regularly in any detail.

Authors and publishers are very welcome to link direct to individual pages on the site, especially those where their work is published or reviewed.

We discourage sites from linking direct to our links pages and from linking directly to photographs on the site.

Almost all work on our website is copyright and permission must be sought if anyone wishes to re-use work here published.

If you wish to link to us please consider linking to any of the following pages:

• New Hope International
  http://www.nhi.clara.net/nhihome.htm
  Details of all the books/magazines currently available from NHI; guidelines for contributors; links to other poetry sites; and a showcase for some of the work published by NHI.



• New Hope International Review OnLine
  http://www.nhi.clara.net/online.htm
  Reviews of magazines, books, audio material, software, videos and artefacts, including email/website links to authors and publishers.



• Gerald England
  http://www.nhi.clara.net/gehome.htm
  Home page of Gerald England, with links to his poetry, articles and photography on the Internet.



• Craig England
  http://www.nhi.clara.net/craig.htm
  Home page for Craig, a young man with Downs Syndrome. Includes family photographs and links to sites with information on Downs Syndrome.



• The Art of Haiku
  http://www.nhi.clara.net/hk.htm
  A series of webpages supporting and expanding on the material in "The Art of Haiku: a guide to haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, sedoka, sijo and other related genres", published by New Hope International.



• Haiku Talk
  http://www.nhi.clara.net/hktalk.htm
  A general discussion list for writers and others interested in haiku and related genres. A forum for news and views.



• Tameside on the Internet
  http://www.nhi.clara.net/tameside.htm
  A guide to websites devoted to the people, places, businesses, government, sports, history and leisure activities of Tameside. Includes a full account of Harold Shipman, the serial killer GP.



• Land of the Long White Cloud
  http://www.nhi.clara.net/nz.htm
  A web-journal by Gerald England recounting a visit in March 2001 to New Zealand via Singapore. Includes around 150 photographs as well as links to relevant websites.



• A Survey of Yorkshire Dialect on the Internet
  http://www.nhi.clara.net/yd.htm
  A survey by Gerald England of internet sites pertaining to Yorkshire Dialect, including dialect studies and dialect writing.



• Zimmerzine
  http://www.nhi.clara.net/zimzine.htm
  An ezine for all those who are not dead yet! Originally edited by the late Martin Grampound. Poetry, art, fiction, humour — an eclectic mix.

If you feel it appropriate to link to any other part of our website then please contact us first.

email: nhi@clara.net

The URL of this page is http://www.nhi.clara.net/links.htm
This page last updated: 7th October 2005.