Pages
WhyYouWantOne
You want a personal page to make your space on Horseland Special to you. People will get to know your page, it allows you to show off your personality and if made well keep information organised both for yourself and other people viewing your page.
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WhatToHaveOn
Firstly there are different types of layouts you can have namely:

• Expanding Text Box - where the space your writing in expands according to how much you write (example)
• Imaps - where links open up new window (example)
• Scroll Box (example)
• Tabular (tables!) (example)
• Combinations - where two or more types are combined (example)

Now once you have your layout useful things or types of information to have on your page are:

• Stud/horse chart for reference by both yourself and others.
• VERY Brief details about yourself (NEVER disclose your surname, full address, telephone number, school or any other details that could allow any person to trace you)
• Breeding - details of what standard mares can breed to your stallys etc
• Services - do you offer any services? if so include them on your page.
• Updates - any important updates? buy a new horse etc?
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WhatNotToHaveOn
Ok there are a lot of NO NOs when it comes to layouts i could write a very long list but will limit it to the following and allow your common sense to hopefully win through for rest!

• NO horrendusly busy backgrounds. Simplicity is key and you will prob find a plain colour on its own looks best.
• Try not to have any of those 'i am a ... what are you' type quix things they just cause clutter.
• Leave the multiple animations and blinkies to somewhere else unless HL club related. If you have lots and lots link to them (eg. [x][x][x][x]) rather than putting each one on your page.
• As stated above do not put ANY personal information that anyone could use to trace you with. Its prefrable not to put any email address that have your personal details attached to. If using any contacts put an aim which is untraceable to you.
• Just leave off ANY and ALL clutter! simplicity is the key! if it aint completly needed don't have it!
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BasicsOfMakingYourOwn
If you can learn HTML yourself then great but it can take a lot of time and practice. A program like Dreamweaver is perfect to construct your page. just remember when you look at the code before you start make sure it is completly blank with no < H E A D > < B O D Y > or < H T M L > tags etc. The best place to find help to make basic layouts is http://www.lissaexplains.com take the time and you can find out how to do most things on there.

Below I am putting the most basic bits of html code to get you on your way not that when using multiple '<>' tags on one piece of text you need to remember to close them in reverse order that you opened them see the example of Italic, Bold, centred text below for example of what i mean. If you don't do this your code may not work correctly.

People have asked me to explain pictures a bit more. When posting a picture on your page it must first be hosted somewhere on the internet, and not just on your computer. What i mean by being 'hosted on the internet' is that any person could look at it online at any time by typing the image's address in the navigation bar of their web browser. Now there are various places you can 'host' your images, the first and perhaps easiest option for most is to upload the image on to a spare HL horse or dog in the usual manner and then find its address (right click on photo once it is properly loaded on horse/dog page then select 'properties' then highlight and copy the 'URL' which will look something onlines of http://pics.horseland.com/pics98/horse3251998.jpg for a HL horse photo. The best other place i know that you can host images which can be linked from elsewhere is http://www.photobucket.com which is especially useful for layout makers needing somewhere to host larger images. Please note though that on this site unless you pay the subscription you only have a limited 'bandwidth' which means the photos can only be viewed a certain amount of times a month, and if a large image or a busy page its being hosted on photobucket will not be suitable as a host. What is useful though there is it gives you the pre-made up code for posting the image on your page (eg <img src="http://pics.horseland.com/pics98/horse3251998.jpg"> ) .

(NOTE: if there is a particular piece of code that you require please ask as long as not too complex!)

What you want	The code you need	What it looks like!
Bold text	<B>text here</B>	text here
Centered text/image	<center>text here</center>	text here
Italic Text	<I>text here</I>	text here
Italic bold centered text	<I><B><CENTER>text here</CENTER></B></I>	text here
New line	Text here <br>more text	Text here more text
New paragraph	<P>Text here</P><P>more text </P>	Text here more text
Arial font text	<font face="arial">text here</font>	text here
Different coloured text eg red	<font color="FF0000">text here</font>	text here
Arial font red text	<font face="arial" color="FF0000">text here</font>	text here
Link to horse page	<a href="horsesd.asp?ID=5401090">Horse</A>	Horse
Link to another page	<a href="http://www.horselandhelp.co.uk">Horseland Help</A>	Horseland Help
Link to another page opening new window	<a href="http://www.horselandhelp.co.uk" target="_blank">Horseland Help</A>	Horseland Help
Link to another player's page	<a href="vownersd.asp?ID=1063312">player</A>	player
Big text	<font size="18">text here</font>	text here
Plain image on your page	<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/ austens_minime/horseland/advicegif2.gif">
Image linked to another player's page	<a href"vownersd.asp?ID=1063312"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/ austens_minime/horseland/advicegif2.gif"> </A> (above is to link to a players page to link to a horse's page simply use the code as described above)
Coloured Background	<STYLE TYPE="text/css" > body {background-color=violet} </STYLE>	NO PREVIEW
Image as background	<STYLE TYPE="text/css"> BODY {background-image: url("http://www.mypicture.com/picture.jpg");} </STYLE>	NO PREVIEW

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MakingTables
OK finally its here the guide to making tables made as simple as I can!

You will note that the <TR> tags relate to across rows and <TD> relate to down columns. Play around but make sure you always open your <TR> tags before your <TD> tags and to close them in the opposite way so you close your <TD> tags before your <TR> tags. Play around with colours as well I have put in few examples of how you can use them!

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BuyingYourOwn
Another thing you MUST NOT STEAL OR COPY. Make your own granted, borrow ideas from other people fine but blantently copy piece for piece another person's page is unacceptable.

LOGIN DETAILS. There is no need to supply these for someone to make you a page. All they need do is email you the code to be pasted and copied into the box at the bottom of your page. If they demand your details then it is most likely that they are out to hack you of all your money and possibly also horses.

Again ask to see an example of what your getting.

PRICES. Now these vary massively, it depends on who you are buying from and how much work you have to do to it afterwards. Many people have free layouts which you will have to look out for. You will have to expect to pay big money (eg minimum $5mil+ ) though for a really good organised page which should be relatively easy (as easy as HTML can be which isn't that easy!) for you to edit you can on the same lines expect to pay in excess of $50mil for the best layouts! Different pages are available for different budgets but for anything 'decent' your looking in the millions!
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FreeLayouts
The following sites provide free layouts that are available for all to use as long as you give credit to the creator on the page. NOTE read the terms of use on each individual site as they will differ.

• http://www.buck-off.com/horseland.php - very good site
• http://www.vacant-expressions.com/freelayouts/ - extremely good site
• http://destinydesign.iwarp.com/
• http://www.geocities.com/nflp_club_graphics_and_layouts/
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