Utah Dogs

Have you been wondering how to find out what’s going on in Utah when it comes to Dog Events? Well.. look no further! Okay okay you can look further if you really want to LOL, and if you do, I hope you will add your information to our:

Utah Dog Events Google Calendar.

You can click that link above and it should display the calendar to you. If you already have a Google Calendar, you can add this calendar to your calendars so that both will show. And I’m new to Google Calendars so I’m not sure which link will be best for you to use, so here are a couple more for you to copy and paste.. please let me know which one works:

iCal Format

or

XML Format

If you need the links directly let me know and I can post them in plane text.  Otherwise you should be able to right click and Copy Link Location depending on what browser you are using.

If you want to be able to edit or add events, reply to this post and we’ll see about getting you added!

So far the calendar has Obedience, Agility, Flyball, Splash Dogs, Conformation… and hopefully will include Herding and other dog sports as well. Oh I think it has the Weight Pull on there too!

Well I changed the theme today! This one is called Cosmic Buddy. It’s a free theme, which is good, because Utah Dogs is poor and doesn’t have any money. Just like me.  LOL.  Which is no surprise. Hopefully we’ll get more traffic and I’ll be adding some ads (sorry but they do pay the bills!) and maybe we will, eventually, be able to actually buy a customized theme.

But I’ve been wanting that for years so we’ll see how it goes.  Anyway I like having more concise and succinct information on the front page, and I think this theme delivers that.  So hopefully it’s fairly easy to navigate.  I’ll be customizing the images over time too. Never enough time! Thanks for visiting!

Okay I took steps today to ensure, hopefully, we will no longer get any sploggers registering for the site.  We have had a ton of registrations and most of them are just junk!  Yuck! And so now we hopefully will just get real users coming to the site and using it.

I’ve gotten some parks listed, more will come.  I will also try to bring across some of the posts from the last forum. Or else maybe I’ll just close that down and link to them with a sub-domain. For historical purposes.

Things are coming along well! I’m really liking this software. I will be writing a tutorial, too, to help people who may be confused on how to read things.  Please don’t hesitate to click around!  It cannot be broken except from the inside!

If you have any links you think would benefit this site, please feel free to post them as comments on this post. And we’ll get them added. Hopefully there will be a links extension soon that we can incorporate them all into.

Thanks!

Today I went through and added a Captcha for Registrations and logins.  We have been getting a whole slew of new registrations and I think they are all spammers.  Hopefully this will prevent spammer registrations in the future.

I don’t like Captchas but they really do help. So I apologize for the inconvenience.

I also went through the currently registered users and marked most of them as spammers. If I marked you as a spammer and you are not one, and you can no longer log in or post or navigate the site, please email me at web@tiptail.com

Thanks!

I think the site is stable now and I’m starting to repopulate the Dog Park information in the Parks area of this social network.  I’m copying the information from the old site which is, for now, still active. But I’m going to be closing it down. I put in a subdomain to run it from so we can gather the information from there as we need it to populate this area instead.

We have had a lot of new members sign up but I don’t know if they are legit or not.  I won’t be deleting anyone unless they seem to be posting spam or anything.

So far, so good, I hope our user base will come back and look around.

Well it looks like the site survived the night and didn’t break on it’s own again. Hopefully this weekend I’ll have some time to input Dog Park information again and get everything back up and working.

Thanks to those who have registered and I hope those of you who registered before, and are now deleted, will register again. Thanks!

Okay the site will be slowly rebuilt with Dog Park information, Dog Sports fun things, and more.  If you want to help out and contribute please let me know. You can comment here or you can register and send me a message.

There is a great dog community here in Utah and hopefully we can all get together and chat!