They indicate the daily ranking progress of players, horses, or centers.

It's normal. Only days when you connect to Howrse count towards your seniority.

We recommend using Mozilla Firefox as your Internet browser if you are having problems. You can download it here.

You have nothing to worry about for your horses. They won't age if you do not log in. For your center, however, time will continue to progress, so there are a few small things you'll have to plan ahead:

• Make sure your employees' contracts cover the dates over which you'll be absent, or hire temporary employees,
• Also, make sure that you have a large enough stock of bedding (every box's bedding is changed once a week),
• You have 20 days to harvest your crops.

Seasons last one week on Howrse. Fall begins on the first day of each real month. Winter starts on the eighth day of the month, spring on the fifteenth and summer on the twenty-second. Summer lasts to the end of the current month. The cycle of seasons starts over again on the first day of the next month.

You have to use the contact form to send a code that's not working. Use the "Contact us" icon of a pencil in "My profile".

Howrse players commonly have to deal with stolen accounts. But you can avoid this by following these tips:

• ALWAYS log off before leaving Howrse,
• NEVER save your password in your browser,
• don't leave the computer you're using to play Howrse unattended,
• don't share your password with anyone
• delete the e-mail you received when you joined, because if someone hacks your e-mail address, he or she will have access to your Howrse login and password,
• and lastly, don't use a password people who know you could easily figure out.

You have to buy the Black Pearl in the Black Market to create a personalized coat for the other players. You also need a graphics program to create your coat.

You don't have to take care of all your horses. If you perform no actions on your horse, it will not age or run health risks.

To insert an image from your computer, you have to upload it to a site like imageshackimageshack. Then all you have to do is to put the web address on the forum from your profile page.

On forums, the tags you must use for each link are [img] and [/img]. They must be pasted to the link without spacing.

On your profile, you have to use the exact link to the site where you uploaded your image by using the "image" button on your profile page.

A hypertext link lets you put just a word or sentence people can click to visit another site, such as one about your horses.

The tagging system is the same for forums as for images. The only difference is that the tag is [url] or [/url] .

To hide the address and put only the word or sentence you want, do the following: [url=address you want to redirect to]word you want to appear and then, without spaces, close the tag [/url]

On your presentation page, use the "link" button and enter the address you want to redirect to. To insert a hypertext link, write the text you want to appear, select it, click the link button, and then enter the address in the box that appears.