Your Turn February Sweepstakes Sneak Peek

January 31, 2013

Happy 2013 HorseGirlTV® fans! Tune in. Tack up.®

In January we gave you the awesome new site design that you’re currently surfing. The whole team was so in to this project that we didn’t focus on any specific contests for the month so we’ll make up for it throughout the year. This month we have 2 super sweepstakes with a teaser of one of our March Your Turn sweepstakes included as well.

Now… Ready? Set? ENTER!!!!!!!

Win Our IT’S LOVE $250 Absorbine Gift Basket:
We’re giving away $250 of fabulous Absorbine products. It’s Your Turn to give you horsey sweetheart some TLC. How about some VetLin to treat those cold winter muscles, Hooflex so you can give them a pedicure, Lip Conditioner for you to give sweet nuzzle kisses, and more. Details ↓

This sweepstakes ended February 27th, 2013.

Win FREE iPhone App Horselog (French or English versions):
Horselog lets users manage the health, the competitions and the whole budget of their horses from their iPhone. With Horselog, riders can manage their horse(s) day by day with one simple tool. How to enter details ↓

This sweepstakes ends February 28th. We know there are massive amounts of iPhone using HorseGirlTV fans out there. The WINNERS will be announced and your notes will be published on HorseGirlTV®.

Win an Autographed copy of PJ O’Dwyers novel “Relentless”:We’re giving away copies of PJ O’Dwyer’s novel “Relentless” – the first book in the Fallon Sisters Trilogy, tackles the controversial and often heated debate about horse slaughter. Writing a story that is relevant to our time is a precious opportunity. Details to follow!

What’s New With The NEW & IMPROVED HorseGirlTV® Website In 2013?

January 30, 2013

Everyone at HorseGirlTV has been hard at work this past month developing the new site launch. It’s here and I must say, it’s by far the best yet. For those of you who’ve been fans from the very beginning back in 2007 you’ll notice a bit of the design harkening back to those early days. That nostagia is for you! Thanks for supporting and being there watching, reading and enjoying the education, news and entertainment we have strived to offer over the years. Cheers!

Let this be your guide to some of the ins and outs getting around the new site.

Let searching be your friend. There are over 1500 pages and regular daily content adding all the time so look to the right in that cute little sidebar and you’ll find a search just below a message from our advertisers as well as scrolled to the bottom of the sidebar another friendly search.

Leading off our main navigation is on the very top for the first time even. We’re testing this out and looking to improve it even further “sticking” it to the top in the coming month so you’ll have all the main navigation of the site right in front of you as you scroll through our thousands of pages.

Next up is the oh so cute and classic HorseGirlTV logo and headlining image. This has always been a part of our design templates but this new and improved one will fade in and out through a series of images that speak to the variety of disciplines the company publishes original content on. Sit and have a watch on the occasion as we’ll be updating these headlining images regularly throughout the year. If there’s a special look in the headliner that you’d like to see, please feel free to offer up an opinion or two!

The HorseGirlTV Team has worked really hard to foster relationships with industry leading companies that have been our key advertising partners for consecutive years running. The very next images roll through those advertising partners featuring a special thanks for all they do to help keep us flourishing and continuing to produce the best original content the web has to offer!

What would HorseGirlTV be without our signature original content episodes! That’s next. Just click to play and away it will go on your laptop, tablet AND smartphone! All our episodes have been painstakingly re-encoded to be tablet and smartphone friendly so you can watch HorseGirlTV just about anywhere you are AND with whatever device your heart desires!

The content that follows on the main page takes you back through the weeks previous posts. We’ve grown up. We have a team dedicated to bringing you the best original content and we’re now offering new content daily. Well… we might take Wednesdays (except for this one) off but we’ll see! 🙂 As always we’ll offer awesome Episodes and you can watch them ALL by clicking that previous link. We’ll continue publishing the breaking sport and performance horse News and you can read My Blogs as always, however, we’re so excited to be introducing regular contributing writers (more specifics to follow soon) on our Blogs section.

You can still Subscribe for FREE to our semi-monthly hip guide and be in the know about the kewlest new topics. Don’t forget to check out equibarre fitness DVD (and soon to be released digital download options) for an equestrian friendly work out that’s easy to follow and scalable to your current level of fitness.

But wait… there’s more! What’s new on the new site? We have a Celebrities section now that will fast fill up with your favorite celebs.

One of my favorite new sections of the site is Your Turn! By far one of my fav duties is to get to work with the Team on sweepstakes and Your Turn is our dedicated sweepstakes solution. This is where we’ll have all our current prizes up for grabs with explanations of how to enter. Some will be simple submits, some will be writing or video production contests, sending in your favorite pictures, etc but all will offer winners and fun!

Scroll to the very bottom and have a gander at the Company section. There you’ll learn about interesting statics from HorseGirlTV Overview, you can meet Our Team or Contact Us, and learn about Advertising with us AND our production opportunities for your product or service. Like I said, we’ve grown and we’re continuing to grow so there’s Careers section as well as some Accolades.

All the items in our top, pretty orange navigation can likewise be found at the bottom of the page in the Explore HorseGirlTV and you can see more of Our Brands down there as well!

Is there something we’ve missed that you’d like to see? Let me know!

Thanks to you all. Cheers to an amazing 2013 for every single one of us and I hope you enjoy the new HorseGirlTV website as much as we (especially me!) have enjoyed creating it for you!

This was a MASSIVE site migration of over 1,500 pages so please if you notice a link, image or something that appears to be out of place please report it to us. Thanks!

Black Is Back, Ralph Lauren Redeemed on Tuesdays Untacked

January 29, 2013

With the new site re-design I’ve begged the powers that be here at HorseGirlTV® to allow me a few liberties. Hey, I deserve it yes? I’ve been wanting to do a series that allows me to write about any or everything my heart desires and so enter the world… Tuesdays Untacked. Yeah!

With all this editing, developing, re-encoding and organizing we’ve been doing here this past month I’ve been listening to heaps of music I rocked the code to in the late 90s. This working in to the late hours of the evenings kinda music inspired me to get back to basics with black. I’ve gone out and gone gel. Gel polish that is. It’s my first time with the gel manicure so why not make it bold in black! The staying power is fabulous for us horse girl types who often find our fingers in feed, snaps and straps. It’s super shiny wet look sparkles to the glow of the LCD or over a candlelit dinner, whatever the case may be.

You can get the look with Shellac Black Pool Gel Nail Polish and I’m thinking about springing for a Thermal Spa Gel Light Nail Dryer so I can easily change out my polish at home or on the road. Going the DIY route though, I suggest having a fine short bristled brush on hand with nail polish remover to sweep away any mistakes on cuticles or otherwise. With striking black and other dark colors it’s easy to bleed the color to your skin and not be able to get it off so just be prepared. If you can’t find a short bristled brush, a Q-tip or even a bobbie pin with TP wrapped around it can provide touch up assistance.

Now on to my dear, dear, wonderful, fabulous, talented and classic Ralph. You’ve inspired us for decades yet this past year you confused us severely with your homage to the Love Boat Olympic attire. I now know you did have a path and were going somewhere with it, it was just at the time we couldn’t see past the bobby socks and berets. Enter NY Fall Fashion Week and your Spanish equestrian inspired looks complete with the French beret to keep us guessing. Hopefully some of these were manufactured stateside instead of our USA, Made in China, Olympic wear. Hmmm?

Lauren was quoted, “I was inspired by a vibrant, bohemian spirt, the artistry of things handmade and personal style that is as rich as it is romantic.” Here I surely agree with you. The basic blacks, the contrasting bolero jackets topped by the oh so feminine soft black berets it works, especially with my new black polish.

I adore your HorseGirlTV® teal open front, just a touch too long flowing sleeved blouse partnered with the jodhpur style high waisted trousers and couldn’t resist sharing that pict!

Looking forward to your what surprises you have for us in spring!