About the Horse Products Ring
The Horse Products web ring links together web sites
that showcase equine-related products and services such as
tack, saddlery, equine insurance, vet supplies, ribbon and award manufacturers,
silversmiths, equestrian art and jewelry, horse transportation, horse trailers,
equine software, equine web services, equine advertising, equine classifieds,
horse books and literature, horse videos, farrier services, horse trainers and stables,
bedding, carriages and harnesses, and stable and ranch equipment.
The Horse Products web ring was founded in 1997.
Visit The Horse Products Ring
Be sure to visit other sites in the Horse Products web ring to see
what this online community of Horse Products web sites is like.
Click to visit the
Horse Products web ring.
Criteria to Join This Ring
Web sites submitted to this web site must be *your own domain name registered to your own
farm or business* ending in .com, .net, .biz, .org, etc. We no longer accept personal home
pages or pages published under the "free" type host providers in a subdirectory
such as Homestead, Yahoo, Tripod, etc. We do not accept new web ring sites that display
third party or free host provider's pop-up advertising. Sorry - no exceptions.
A Horse Products web site focuses on merchandise or
services marketed, and should be the primary content of the web site.
This web ring does not include horse breed types of sites
such as stallions, horses for sale, recreation, registries, associations,
breeders, farms, or ranches. These types of sites are welcome and encouraged to
participate in any of the many available horse breed web rings.
Additional general
criteria that applies for all our equine web rings may be
found here.
How To Sign Up
Joining the Horse Products web ring is easy... and it's totally free. If
your web site meets the above criteria, you may
fill out this form and
apply to this web ring.
The Code You Need
Once you sign up
for the Horse Products web ring the necessary HTML code
you must use on your web page is automatically created for you. If you need help adding
the HTML code to your web page, please refer to the comprehensive help
files provided at dir.webring.com/help
A spare copy of the Horse Products web ring HTML code can be
obtained by visiting the main web ring site at www.webring.org and logging in with your web ring username and ID
number. (These links open a new window.)
Example Of Embedded Ring Code
Modifying The Code
You may opt to include the standard Horse Products web ring code which includes a
small icon supplied by the main web ring program, or experienced webmasters may wish to
use an edited version of the standard ring code that includes the Horse Products
web ring graphic - or a version which contains no image at all.
*Note: you must save the web ring graphic image to your own hard drive and upload
it to the images directory on your web server if you choose to alter the standard ring code
you will receive upon joining.
Do not link directly to the web ring graphic on this web site!
Hot-linking to images from this web site will cause your site to be dropped from the ring.
The Queue
Each site that applies to the Horse Products web ring is entered into the
'queue' after submission, where it awaits review by the ringmaster before
being added to the ring. You have 7 days from the time you sign up
for the ring to add the html code to your web page. The web ring code must
be placed on the same web page URL you used when you submitted your
site to the Horse Products web ring. (The
ringmaster will not search through your web site to determine if the ring code was
placed on a different page.) If the code is not correctly added to your
web page within the 7 day time frame, it may be
dropped from the queue without notice.
Being Added To The Ring
The ringmaster visits sites in this web ring's queue to determine if the
site: 1. has the web ring html code properly in place, 2.
the site meets this particular web ring's criteria (see above), in
addition to any other
criteria necessary to join the web ring. If the web ring code is
in place and the site meets the web ring's guidelines, the ringmaster
'adds' your site to the web ring. At that time you will receive a
confirmation email announcing your addition to the web ring. Once your
site is added as a member of the Horse Products web ring, viewers can
navigate to and from your web site via the ring code included on fellow
Horse Products web ring's web pages.
What If Your Site Isn't Added?
Oftentimes sites that apply to web rings don't meet the criteria for
that particular web ring. Because sites included in the Horse Products
web ring are reviewed by a real live person, each site is subject to a
determination based on the ringmaster's criteria. If, for some reason, a
site does not meet that criteria in the eyes of the ringmaster, it is not
intended in any way to criticize or demean the web site or its creator(s).
It's a matter of personal opinion. In this case, however, the ringmaster's
opinion is final, and (because of the volume of sites that apply) the
ringmaster is not obligated to offer reasons a site may have been declined
for inclusion.
It's also possible that a silly little HTML error, a typo in the URL when
submitting your web site address, or the fact the code wasn't added within
the specified time frame may have caused the site not to be included. In
such case, feel free to apply to the Horse Products web ring again at a
later time.
Say Adios
Web sites that include pop-up advertising windows of their hosts,
web ring members who hot-link to the web ring image(s), ring members
who are reported for spamming other ring members, web sites that
infringe on another's copy rights, or hostile emails from ring applicants ...
are all investing in a one-way ticket to cyberspace oblivion. These sites and
individuals will not be considered for, nor will they be participating
in the Horse Products web ring.
