NFED Frequently Asked Q & A's |
Also see: Classifieds FAQ's | Photo Help | Forum FAQ's | Event Diary Help |
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The NFED is a complete central resource for all equestrian information from in & around the New Forest & Central Southern England. It exists in digital form only, but you are welcome to make hard copies of any sections that you may find useful. |
The Website is owned by equestrian artist Claire Kitcher, trading as CK Art/NFED |
The site is run & edited by Steve Kitcher, with input & advice from gratefully received from many others. Please see the "Meet the Team" page |
Anyone with an interest or love of horses, ponies, riding or driving. Particular those living in Central Southern England. |
No. Although we breed New Forest ponies ourselves and are always pleased to promote or help anyone involved in NF ponies or commoning, the NFED is for all equestrian information. |
We are based at Sway in the the New Forest, but the NFED covers the whole of Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire & the Isle of Wight. |
Claire's first art Website was designed, built & launched in 1998 by myself. At the same time, I started producing the schedule for a friend, Sally Mace, who is secretary for the Bashley Horse show. It seemed a logical step to put the Bashley horse show on the Internet along with a schedule for downloading. Even though it was early days, the feed back was very good, so it seemed a good idea to offer the service to other local shows. The NFED has grown from this. |
Although at the beginning it was felt there was a real need for a service such as the NFED, it was also an excellent way to advertise both Claire's equestrian art & our own Website building services. The NFED has now grown up into a respected & well used Website, offering a real service to the equestrian community. |
Go to the directory, click on the "Submit New Listing" link, fill in & submit the form. |
New categories can be added if required. |
Standard listing cost £50 for 12 months. Full affiliate webpages are available for £10 per month, including a directory listing & preferential positioning in the directory A to Z, monthly updates & your own website address (NFED Subdomain). See the Business Promotion for full details. |
The Business Directory was free of charge for 8 years with the intention of giving a fully comprehensive directory of equestrian services in the area and providing the very best service to our users. Although it sounds a great idea, it is not that easy. Keeping a directory up to date is a very difficult task when you do not have regular contact with the individuals or companies listed. A directory that is not kept up to date can cause more problems than no directory at all. By charging a small amount, we have regular contact with all advertisers & can provide a far better service, whilst allowing them to take control of their listings for regular updates. |
| Approved Directory entries are normally posted within 24 hours of payment has being received |
By joining the mailing list, you will receive the latest NFED updates & important news for the area by Email. You can unsubscribe whenever you like. Click Here for further details |
If you find the NFED useful please tell everyone you know!! If you know someone who is organising an event, please make sure it is listed on the diary & if possible get them to submit a schedule, followed by results. You can download, print out & display a poster or logo in your car, at your yard or local tackshop. If you have any ideas for the NFED, want to become more involved or have something you can offer, please get in touch. |
No but we are happy to host sections for non profit organisations that are of interest to the NFED visitors. |
Yes, see Affiliate pages. |
No, we have no membership apart from the forums. |
The NFED has grown into a very large site. We have done our best to make navigation logical, but if you still have problems have a look at the site map, or use the search facilities. |
Yes, generally very successful. We have not added a testimonials page as these cannot be proved so are pretty worthless, but rest assured that we do get many Emails from people that have had success with their advert and several horses have been sold within 24 hours. The site receives thousands of visitors everyday, most of whom have a look through the classifieds. A lot of work goes on behind the scenes on search engine positioning and cross linking. We also subscribe to the Google adwords scheme, paying for sponsored links on the Google network. This said, we cannot work miracles: Providing the animal or item is saleable, it is up to the advertiser to create a good advert, post a good photograph with the correct price. If we could guarantee sales, we would be very rich! |
Please see Photo Help for full details, examples and an online photo resizer. |
What's New only includes site updates that are carried out manually. Automated updates such as: Classified ads, Forum Postings or Event diary entries are not included. |
Email or post the results (on disk) & photos to us & we will set it up for you, free of charge (Email is preferred). Unless by prior arrangement, the maximum number is 16 photos, all results must provided in MS Word or plain text. If you would like to have more than 16 images shown & offer prints for sale, please see the NFED Photo Service section for further details. If you submit photos, it is your responsibility to ensure you have copyright or the photographers permission. |
Yes, providing we are available, we can take photos of your event. An online album will be created to display them on the NFED & offer prints for sale through our mail order service. The album will contain all the photos taken & not restricted to 16 images. See the NFED Photo Service or www.event-images.co.uk section for further details. |
Normally, Steve the NFED editor would take the photos, but Claire may stand in if he is unavailable. We have been taking & selling photographs since the early eighties (long before the NFED or even the Internet). A member of the Bureau of Freelance Photographers for many years, with experience of studio, darkroom work as well as the odd wedding. |
There are no offices. It is run from our home in Sway, with everyone involved keeping in contact by Email. |
The visitors numbers do vary depending on the day of the week, but there are normally several thousand per day. The counter is on the bottom of each page. We count unique visitors, i.e. each visitor is only counted once in a sixty minute period no matter how many pages are looked at or how often the site is revisited. This gives a lower, but much more accurate way of counting hits. |
The diary is user submitted, it is up to the show or event organisers to enter their own details in the diary. We will enter details if we are aware of an event. |
No, we are in regular contact through the Horsewatch scheme, & we have received several donations from Hampshire Police Authority. This has enabled us to sponsor further shows & therefore publicise the NFED. |
Email the editor with full details & we will gladly correct it for you. |
Email the schedule or post it to us on floppy disk or CD, we will then add it to the page for you & let the mailing list know it is available. |
Please contact us, it depends on the size of the kitty at the time! |
The results are user submitted, in other words it is up to the show organisers to submit their results to us, we will then post them on results page. Of course, they may not be aware of this free service, so please tell them. |
We are always open to suggestions & welcome your comments through Email or the visitor feedback form. The sections that are run for other organisations such as the NFEA & Horsewatch, are run in agreement with the individual committees. There is no committee involved with the NFED & the editor has the final decision as to what is included. |
If your question has not been answered here, please Email Tel: 01590 683808