Equestrian Website Design

Equestrian website design for your horses for sale, livery yard, equestrian transport, riding school or other horse business. Whether you have a stallion at stud or tack to sell we can build you a site to showcase your services

As well as building you a website and helping you get found in the search engines, we can also assist you with the marketing of your equine business. With high traffic and top search engine rankings, our sister website, Equine Online, is the ideal place for you to promote your equestrian company.

Today more and more businesses are discovering the tremendous power of the Internet. A well-designed Web site can give you the edge over your competitors, allowing your business to reach millions of potential customers at home and throughout the world. With so many packages available on the market the choice can often be bewildering and this is where Equine Websites can help.

Equestrian Websites specialise in the design, development and marketing of web sites for equestrian enterprises, but we are quite happy and equally competent to provide the same service to all types businesses. We will work with you to create the ideal Web site for your business and also give you any advice you need to go on-line.

Customized horseboxes.

Each build starts with an options list to help you decide what facilities you require. From this a design can be made and the size of vehicle required established. Likewise if you require a certain size of vehicle we can then advise what type of build is possible.

Each Custom horsebox is stamped with its unlaiden weight to help avoid overloading and serial number to ease ordering of replacement parts including a database for paint and fabric codes.

We constantly update the designs of our builds to make the most of new materials available, to enable us to minimise unlaiden weight and maximise strength and also to ensure our mouldings suit new shape cabs and the look fits in with modern style. For example our GRP moulded Luton steps in from the width of the container to minimise overhang above the cab. The design also allows it to be made for any width of box giving a very stylish look.

Local Community And Rural Arson Security Tips

RURAL ARSON

Rural businesses have many sensitive potential arson locations.

1 Hay and straw should be removed from fields as soon as possible after harvesting.

2 Hay and straw should be stored: - separately from other buildings, particularly those housing

fuels, agrochemicals and machinery - in stacks of reasonable size, spaced at least 10 metres

apart, separately from livestock housing

3 Petrol, diesel and other fuels should be stored in secure areas and storage tank outlets should be padlocked.

4 Fertilisers and pesticides should be kept under lock and key. The Health & Safety Executive can provide further advice on the storage and transportation of fertilisers, particularly

ammonium nitrate.

5 Refuse should be disposed of safely and on a regular basis.

LOCAL COMMUNITY

1 A strong sense of community still exits in rural locations. Join a ‘Rural’ or ‘Neighbourhood Watch Scheme’ to share information. Find out who the local Police contact is for your area.

2 If you have a suspicious caller at your business, record the vehicle registration number, descriptions of the persons and report this to the Police.

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COMPUTER AND IDENTITY SECURITY

Be a aware of computer and identity crime, this goes from your Equestrian website to your home computer to buying online.

Your computer is vulnerable to electronic theft as well as thieves. Ensure you have an up-to-date virus checker and firewall if you use email or the internet.

Identity theft is an emerging crime. Buy a home shredder for all unwanted personal documents.

DIESEL TANKS

Avoid siting storage tanks in isolated areas such as outlying buildings. A mobile browser could be used instead and removed to a secure place when not in use.

For tanks located close to an electricity supply there are additional options - better lighting, motion sensors and alarms - to act as further deterrents.

CARAVAN STORAGE

Caravans are very desirable and thieves will go to extraordinary measures to steal them. There are existing industry standards which you should aspire to.

The Caravan Storage Site Owners Association (www.cassoa.co.uk) has a scheme for accrediting storage facilities. Secured by Design (www.securedbydesign.com) have secure caravan parks accreditation scheme.

Equestrian Security and rural security issues are fast coming to the forefront with crime in these areas rapidly increasing.

TRACTORS, AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, AND TRAILERS SECURITY

Nothing should be stored or kept in a visible location, except when in use. When vehicles or plant of any sort are kept outside they should be kept locked and the keys kept in your possession or in a locked key cupboard.

PREPARE FOR A LOSS

1 All property must be uniquely marked, photographed and recorded in an asset register that includes serial, chassis and model numbers.

2 Use property marking solutions to uniquely mark all types of property, or Post Code your property in a non visible place and photograph it. Marking solutions: SmartWater -

www.smartwater.com; Selectamark - www.selectamark.co.uk; Identidot - www.identidot.com

5 If your property is high value fit a tracking device or a data tracking chip. Your insurance company, or a Police Crime Prevention Officer, will advise on its preferred product.

6 Register valuable plant; the National Plant and Equipment Register (www.ter-europe.org ) runs an international database of owned and stolen equipment. It employs specialist staff who

work with law enforcement agencies to identify and recover stolen equipment. You can register five items for free. Tractors and other agricultural machinery, trailers, caravans, quarry

equipment and generators are amongst the most stolen items.

More rural and agricultural security tips.

Historically, many farm buildings were built for storage, not for rural security. Now they need to be secure as well as to provide cover.

Put yourself in the place of a thief; inspect your buildings and upgrade your storage to reflect the value of the property stored in it.

Fit high quality locks. Ensure the fabric of the building is secure. Seek advice from a Police Crime Prevention Officer.

Add to indoor security by installing sensors with audible alarms. Display signs to show you have alarms installed.

Consider ~Farm CCTV.

Store all your property indoors when not in use.

Keep all doors locked, except when the building or office is in use and there is someone present.

If your building shell is poor, use secondary secure storage such as a container.

Tips on keeping your rural or agricultural business safe.

Our ancestors had full control over entry and exit to their castles.

They achieved this by having a combined entry and exit point

using gates, watch towers, moats, walls and guards.

3 Look closely at the perimeter of your property, remove all

gates and entrances that you no longer use.

3 Plant thorn hedges with deep ditches and bunds.

3 Change the layout of your business to establish a single

entrance and exit.

3 Place a gate at the public end of your entrance to make it

less inviting.

3 Place a second inner gate at the private end of the entrance

to your property.

3 Invert and cap gate hinges so that gates cannot be lifted off,

or use good padlocks with covers so they cannot be cut off.

Also, ensure all fixing bolts cannot be removed.

3 If a gate is not being used for a lengthy period, place a

temporary obstruction in front of it so it cannot be opened or

used for parking or a rubbish tip.

3 Use locking posts or temporary obstructions to control large

openings to yards.

3 Cattle grids should be removable and locked out of position

when not in use.

3 Place CCTV cameras at the inner gate to record registered numbers

of vehicles and the faces of drivers. Place CCTV signs.

3 Install sensor controlled ‘dusk to dawn’ security lights to

alert you to visitors.

3 Install an infra red device at the inner gate which will sound

an alarm to alert you to visitors.

3 Join a ‘Watch’ scheme, obtain signs from the Police and

place them on gates.

3 Place signs saying “We do not buy from calling sales persons

If you want information, advice or product to help beef up your rural or equestrian security arrangements follow the link.