adding links

[paintponylvr]

I'm still fairly new to driving and consider myself a "greenie". That said, I have many links on my own website AND have been in contact with several of the "big name" harness makers via the phone or email.

I really am enjoying digging thru this forum while it's too hot outside to be out working young ponies. This is exciting to find this forum - very educational and informative - AND FUN!

One thing I've noticed in some of the posts by those of you who seem to post regularly and a lot - you give reference to a person, show or place but not contact for them. Can some of you please start putting links in for anyone/place/shop that has a website or an email or an address/phone number for those that don't? That would be helpful - I'm terrible at Googling/searching. My family and my boss/co-worker (II work for a small web design/hosting company) find it hilarious that I have so many problems w/ googling!

 

[hobbyhorse23]

Hi, welcome to the forum!

One thing I've noticed in some of the posts by those of you who seem to post regularly and a lot - you give reference to a person, show or place but not contact for them. Can some of you please start putting links in for anyone/place/shop that has a website or an email or an address/phone number for those that don't?

What type of people or shows are you talking about? We wouldn't normally think to put in links except to something that could be purchased or researched and honestly we have to be really careful about that because forum rules do not allow links to "competing interactive miniature horse sites," other forums, or sales of any kind.

At one point even the American Driving Society website was off-limits because it had a forum attached to it!

Since they opened the new driving forum LB has relaxed about that stuff a little (thank you, Mods!

) but many of us are still reluctant to risk stepping on toes. If there's something specific you're interested in, feel free to ask and we can try to help you. ComfyFit harness, for instance, is just www.comfyfitharness.com!

Most of them are pretty easy to find.

Oh, and I often won't post phone numbers or email addresses on public forums because of the web-bots that crawl around collecting those darn things for spam lists. They go looking for text formatted as "[email protected]" or "555-555-1212" and I don't want to give them that so if I do have to post I'll say "hobbyhorse23 at gmail dot com." I don't know if it works, but that's what I was told.

I do have to ask- how, exactly, can one be "Google-challenged?"

You just type "www.google.com", put the name of what you're interested in at the top, and there it is!

Leia

 

[paintponylvr]

Hi, welcome to the forum!

What type of people or shows are you talking about? We wouldn't normally think to put in links except to something that could be purchased or researched and honestly we have to be really careful about that because forum rules do not allow links to "competing interactive miniature horse sites," other forums, or sales of any kind.

At one point even the American Driving Society website was off-limits because it had a forum attached to it!

Since they opened the new driving forum LB has relaxed about that stuff a little (thank you, Mods!

) but many of us are still reluctant to risk stepping on toes. If there's something specific you're interested in, feel free to ask and we can try to help you. ComfyFit harness, for instance, is just www.comfyfitharness.com!

Most of them are pretty easy to find.

Oh, and I often won't post phone numbers or email addresses on public forums because of the web-bots that crawl around collecting those darn things for spam lists. They go looking for text formatted as "[email protected]" or "555-555-1212" and I don't want to give them that so if I do have to post I'll say "hobbyhorse23 at gmail dot com." I don't know if it works, but that's what I was told.

I do have to ask- how, exactly, can one be "Google-challenged?"

You just type "www.google.com", put the name of what you're interested in at the top, and there it is!

Leia

Leia -

THANX for the welcome - on several posts! I really appreciate it!

As to the rules - guess I really hadn't read them that way. Comfyfit harness was a new one and was one I wasn't finding when I googled it... Now that youve actually given me a URL, before I even just type it in that way proper, I can probably google it and get it now. There were a couple of other posts that had people excited about either a cart builder or a harness maker in their state, but then had no state listed in their info (or possibly hidden) - and no real name for the business (s) either... That's a little frustrating.

As to "Googling" - well... I can type the same string of search terms in as my hubby does on a different computer sitting right next to me. what I get and what he gets will be COMPLETELY different! When I went into Facebook - my section of the locked computer was the first one to start bringing in viruses - even though I don't use the apps or the games. My computer geek teenagers just scratched their heads. My boss and my co-worker have also been lost by things that don't come up the same for me at work as it will for either of them! No-one can figure it out and no-one of my close acquaintances can understand it! LOL. I get so **!@# frustrated!!!! Huh - the first 3 sites that showed up when I googled "buck back strap for horse harness" was NOT HORSE related in anyway, shape or form & I hope that those type of sites are not now "locked" into my laptop. While I can get around those, that's just tiresome! Weird thing is - my family wouldn't have gotten those type sites when they typed in such specific terms!

OT - but I also regularly "kill" watches. and once the battery is "dead" it will not work again w/ a new one... No-one has ever figured that out either. The same way with cheapy watches all the way up to the nice Sports watches for gaging distances and times or Rolex (s). Sometimes my hubby thinks that my probs w/ computer tie into what ever this is!

Right now, this "new" laptop(got it in Feb - still learning how to use it) is not letting me highlight text so that I can copy and paste it. No-one has figured out what I did - it was working fine last nite!

AS to shows - I'm still new with driving. There are a lot of shows out there - from AMHA to ASPC/AMHR to open venues that have pleasure driving, ADTs, HDTs & then there are CDEs. Some of the bigger names I recognize - simply because I've been a member of ASPC/AMHR for a while and also of the Pony Driving yahoo group. Others are new. I'm not currently a member of ADS or Carraige Driving Association or think there's another one? I think I need to become a member of the Association that allows you to log time while training and enjoying your driving equine. I'm constantly training new ponies - since I breed and raise babies and am slowly getting most if not all of my older breeding stock going as well. Tracking all of that actual time and getting awards for it - WOW! That's such a cool idea!!!!!!!!!! Similar to the Arab Horse Assoc - riding program - done by logging hours...

I eventually want to attend the National Drive. BUT I do recognize that I need to have proper equipment for that and need ponies that are a little past green. Until this past 2 weekends, I didn't really have that... Then I need all the gear to be able to camp - safely but "in the rough" - as I may be able to put together the trip but most likely wouldn't include enough for the hotel room... Any showing that I'm looking at doing - I'm also looking at doing only at venues that allow for camping AND have shower facilities there.

As to phone numbers, hopefully I didn't break that taboo when I included several for places that don't have websites. Hopefully using periods instead of dashes broke up the number enuff. Sorry about that!

Thanks agian for the welcome. I will try not to become frustrated if I see a reference and will learn to just ask, LOL.

 

[hobbyhorse23]

Sounds like you're just one of those "special people" that tech loves to torment!

Sorry about that, it's got to be really frustrating.

AS to shows - I'm still new with driving. There are a lot of shows out there - from AMHA to ASPC/AMHR to open venues that have pleasure driving, ADTs, HDTs & then there are CDEs.

Sounds like you've already got the acronyms down pat.

I'm not currently a member of ADS or Carraige Driving Association or think there's another one? I think I need to become a member of the Association that allows you to log time while training and enjoying your driving equine.

That's the American Driving Society or "ADS." The CAA (Carriage Association of America) is more into antique vehicles and focused on the actual carriage while the driving society is about the discipline of driving itself.

I eventually want to attend the National Drive. BUT I do recognize that I need to have proper equipment for that and need ponies that are a little past green. Until this past 2 weekends, I didn't really have that...

I love the National Drive. I've managed to fly out from Washington State twice now to attend by borrowing horses from forum friends and it was a wonderful experience. I hope someday I'll be able to take my own horses.

Your beta draft harnesses would be perfectly appropriate and no one would have any problem with that red wagon for instance- all types of driving are welcome.

As to phone numbers, hopefully I didn't break that taboo when I included several for places that don't have websites. Hopefully using periods instead of dashes broke up the number enuff. Sorry about that!

No taboo- just a respect for privacy thing!

And it could be just me anyway. *shrug* I have an unlisted number and HATE telemarketer-type calls and someone computer-savvy once told me that having your number listed online on a website, in a forum, etc. is the fastest way to get on those lists. It seemed like that might be twice as bad for someone Amish.

Thanks agian for the welcome. I will try not to become frustrated if I see a reference and will learn to just ask, LOL.

That's what most of us do!

If we're interested, no one is afraid to pester the original poster.

Good to have you.

Leia