When someone contacts you on www.lovehorse.co.uk (or any site for that matter), and offers you his/her email address along with an invitation to communicate off the site, it's very tempting to follow this up and start contacting that person away from the site by using MSN or by email. We strongly advise our members NOT to respond in this way. We advise our members to use the site's facilites first, and get to know any prospective partners while on the site. By doing so you protect your privacy and can proceed at your own pace. Don't feel pressured to respond to requests to reveal your email address. If the approach is genuine then the person will understand and will proceed at a pace that suits you.

Here's a quick and easy way to announce your location to the rest of the site: Use the Tag feature on your profiles to add your county or nearest major city.

For example, lovehorse has added the tag 'Hampshire' to his profile. If you click on the link "Tags & Locations" in the top menu you'll see that Hampshire appears in the list of tags. Click on Hampshire and the lovehorse profile is displayed.

Anyone who lives in Hampshire and who tags their own profile in the same way will appear whenever the tag 'Hampshire' is clicked in the lists of tags. You can do this for any county, city, or town. Here's how:

1. Sign in
2. Click Profile
3. Click Build Profile (if you're not already there)
4. Drag the Tag box from the Component list and drop it into one of your profile areas (if it's not already there)
5. Add the tag(s) of your choice.

You can still also use the tags to denote your interests or to highlight other profiles, but this is a simple of way for anyone living in the same county to make themselves known.

So, get tagging and get noticed!

The Top Photo feature is now working and displaying the top photos as voted for by our members. To view, simply sign in and click the Top Photos link which you'll find just under the top banner.

There are two ways in which you can vote for photos:

1. Click Members then click 'rate photos' from the sub menu. You can choose men or women using the small menu to the right, or you can just vote for both. As you cast a vote by clicking on the stars, another photo will appear.

2. View some profiles (by clicking Members, Who's Online, or a simple search for all men/women with photos), then click on the profile name or the thumbnail image. You'll then see the photo voting stars on the right, over the photo box. Click on the star of your choice to vote. Click on any other thumbnails beneath and vote for them too.

You can also vote for the whole profile by using the stars int the Rate Profile box, just to the left of the photo box.