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2) Dexter Breeders and Farms with Dexters: Part Two 

SMALL WEBSITES WITH EXTRAS

(written January 2005)

1. Donna Rudd's Upland Haven Dexter Farm www.telusplanet.net/public/dexters, Alberta, Canada, has an entry page - a beautiful photo of the farm - which opens to a home page (with another great photo, Donna surrounded by Dexters) with three further links. One of these links takes you to a substantial page of information about Dexters provided on the Hobbit Hill Dexter website. Sending your viewer to a page on another website is a useful strategy especially when high quality information is available there. The Internet allows you to direct people to a wide range of sources of information, either in this manner or through listing a number of links to websites on a Links page. The main strength of the Upland Haven site is its personal dimension which balances the information provided on Dexters, although the site probably needs up-dating.

2. Maureen and Neil McCready's Fan-C-Dexters www.fan-c-dex.com, Texas, USA, has a very simple home page consisting of an interesting photo of horned Dexters and links to three other pages and a guest book. The McCreadys sell about 40 Dexters annually and their website is constructed to assist these sales. One of their pages has photos of cattle for sale, another lists buyers in 2003 and 2004. This site only uses navigation buttons on the home page. If you want to move from one page to another, you have to go back to the home page first. I found the "Back" button on one page didn't work. On a more positive note, the guest book is a feature of the site - it is hosted on Yahoo! Geocities, contains many entries, and is worth a browse (even an entry!).   

3. Denise and Michael Hasshill's Gormellick Dexters www.gormellick.co.uk, Cornwall, England, is a website that uses photos of Dexters, the farm and the show-ring simply but particularly effectively. It uses frames (where part of the page does not change when you scroll down it or navigate to new pages) in an unusual way. I have found the structure not always easy to follow, sometimes losing the way to some groups of photos. When I visited the site early in January 2005, it appeared to have been defaced by a hacker. However, this had been remedied by the end of the month.

4. David and Anna Poole’s Happy Hoofs Ranch http://happyhoofs.south4th.com, Oregon, USA, has a home page that takes you to six further pages consisting mainly of photos of their Dexters. The home page contains a very attractive photo of a rainbow over range and woodland, and a trail of small brown cattle follows your cursor throughout this page. In "About us", we read, among other things: "We usually have 8 to 14 Dexters...Most are pets. We have not butchered any of our Dexters, and try not to talk about BEEF in front of them! Hoping they don't recognize the aroma of larger cousins being BBQ'ed, we say 'Yum... chicken' while cooking outside." They have two photo galleries which use thumbnails for 38 photos (you click on the thumbnail to bring up a larger version of the photo), a series of photos on a Dexter cow giving birth (set up as a slide-show, so that you click "Next" to bring up the next photo in the series), and a page of three bull calves for sale which uses large-sized photos, one under the other. The high number of photos means that some of these pages can take some time to download onto your computer, depending on the speed of your Internet service connection. This website also includes an article by Anna Poole on the 2002 American Dexter Cattle Association Show and Sale event held in Oregon.

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