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A RescueGroups.org Website is not just another website service. It's so much more.
Here are two examples of websites created using our our Website Service.
To see more sites, please visit our website inspiration gallery on Facebook.
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With RescueGroups.org, you don't have to be completely dependent on your web person.
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The RescueGroups.org Website Service has many built-in features designed to make maintaining a website easier for animal welfare organizations.
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Built-in Features included in the RescueGroups.org Website Service
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| The Website Service includes the Pet Adoption Portal, the Data Management Service, and Online Forms Service. |
Automatically Generated Animal Web Pages
You don't need to manually create a web page for puppies, a web page dogs, a web page for seniors, or a web page for special needs animals. These are built in groups known as Special Lists. You can enable the ones you want to use, select a few options, and your animals will automatically be added to those web pages. Here is a list of these built-in groups:
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Want to display web pages of animals by species? You can do that too!
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Here are some examples of what other organizations just like yours are doing.
Built-in Web Pages
Every website comes with built-in pages like About Us, Donation Information, Adoption Information, Contact Information, and more. You don't have to use them, but they're there to help get you started.
Built-in Website Menu
To get you started, we provide you with a menu that includes a list of links to built-in pages on your new website. Can you customize it? Of course!
You can continue to use the default menu, or create your own custom menu where you include any of the built-in pages or custom pages you've created.
Stories Feature
This feature is great for organizations who want to manually add stories for adopted animals.
Memorials Feature
The Rainbow Bridge feature is to memorialize animals who have passed away. You can elect to charge for a page in this section.
Automatically Generated Successful Adoptions Page
This feature allows you to show all of your animals that have been adopted. This is great for organizations who may not want to manually add stories using the Stories feature, or you can use both!
Animal Sponsorship's using PayPal Integration
You can enable this feature to easily allow visitors to sponsor specific animals. They can do a one-time or recurring sponsorship*. When you log in to your organization's PayPal account, you will see the animal name in the sponsorship.
*Your organization must have a merchant account with PayPal to use the recurring donation feature.
News Feature
There’s no need to create and manually maintain a separate webpage for news. Enter them in your service and they will appear on your News page. You can also choose to have the news articles appear on your homepage or elsewhere, using a snippet. More on snippets later. It's very easy to maintain and there's no web page html to edit or update.
Events Feature with Integrated Animal Event Attendance
Like the News feature, the Events page is built in and automatically generated. There is both a calendar view and event list view. You can also show the events on your home page or elsewhere, using a snippet.
There's even an easy way to specify which animals will be at an event. This is great for adoption fairs!
Online Store with PayPal Integration
The Online Store allows you to sell items on your website. Your customers use a PayPal shopping cart to purchase the items, so you don't have to worry about handling credit card information or online payments.
Highlighted Animals Feature
This feature allows you to highlight specific animals to display on your homepage. You can select how many animals and how much of their bio appears. You can turn this feature on and off as you need and even use it to rearrange the order of animals on the automatically generated animal web pages.
Featured Animal
Want to showcase a specific animal or cycle through different animals each time a visitor visits your site? There's a snippet for that!
Built-in Website Templates
We give you built-in layout templates you can use to define the look of your site. You can use them as-is, or customize them to make them your own.
Color and Font Options
Not a designer? Don't worry, we understand. We tried to keep it very simple. You can select a Font Family and Font Size for your site. There's also a handy color scheme tool at the bottom of the page, but we don't mind if you open a support ticket and ask us for help. Just let us know what you have in mind and we'll help you.
Custom CSS
Want to customize the look and feel of your site even more? You can edit the CSS of your site. If you have a volunteer or web designer who is familiar with CSS we can give them some advice and tips where to start. We can also do this for you and provide you with some ideas and a quote. 
Add Custom Javascript or HTML
You can add in that cool script or HTML to your website.
Snippets Features
Snippets allow you to easily add HTML and built-in features to your web pages. Some of our built-in snippets make it easy to add PayPal, Facebook and Twitter to your pages using your Affiliates, while others allow you to place your News, Events, or a Featured Pet on your web pages.
You can also create your own snippets. This is an easy way to add any HTML to your web pages. You might use them to add a chip-in widget, embed a video, or even add custom paypal PayPal buttons.
Role-Restricted Volunteer Access
Volunteers can help with the website in so many ways, such as:
- Post and Update Animals
- Highlight / Feature Animals
- Add Events and Animal Event Attendance
- Add News
- Add Success Stories
- Add Memorials
With the Website Service’s automatically Service automatically generated web pages feature, volunteers can even help maintain the site without editing any HTML.
You can restrict permissions for certain tasks to only one or a few volunteers, or open the permissions to all. You pick and choose what your volunteer can do and see. This role-restricted access is controlled by assigning a "role" with corresponding permissions for tasks.
Also Included: Free, Unlimited, Online Support!
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If you don't have a RescueGroups.org account, you can sign up here: https://www.rescuegroups.org/sign-up/
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