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Enable this option to allow your web site visitors to be able to receive favorite animals and favorite breeds email alerts. Disabling this option prevents your visitors from receiving these alerts.

Meta Settings

Metadata is information about data. Metadata is used to describe pages on a website, allowing search engines to understand what each page portrays.

Website Description

The website description is a meta tag that gives search engines a summary of what the page is about. Meta tags are hidden in the page HTML code, and are not visible to your website visitor, but are instead, visible to search engines. While a page's title may be only a few words or a phrase, a page description might be a sentence or two. For best results, keep meta descriptions between 150 and 160 characters. 

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Use the arrow to the right of the field to select an image from the drop-down list that you would like to use as your short cut (favicon) image. The image will be added as a "short cut" meta tag. 

The images you see in the drop-down list are those you uploaded on the Web Site > Images page. For information on how to upload images to your website, see the article Managing Web images in this guide.

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You can upload images on the Web Site > Images page.  Only the images that are at least 200px by 200px will be shown in the Use Logo Image drop-down list because Facebook requires that the og:image be at least that size, otherwise it will be ignored.

Site Layout Options

The site layout options have to do with how you are arranging the visual elements of your websiteinformation in the Site Layout Options is used in some layouts, and in others that information is not used. If that information is used on the layout you've selected then that information will appear.

Layout slogan

Layout slogans are not supported by all templates and layouts available to you with the Website Service. You can preview your website template to see if your layout slogan is visible. A slogan is the short phrase you want visitors to your website to remember about your organization. For instance, "Saving dogs in Reno" or "No kitten left behind." Enter the slogan you would like to use in the the Layout slogan field field. It will automatically be added to your website. Layout slogans are not supported by all templates and layouts available to you with the Website Service. You can preview your website template to see if your layout slogan is visible.

Active menu

The Active menu is that menu currently in use on your website. This settings selection is a drop-down list of all the any custom web menus you have created, or the default RescueGroups.org menu. Simply use the arrow to the right of the field to select the custom web menu you would like to use on your web site.

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Select Yes if you would like to display your organization's logo on the front page of your web site. This is a separate option because most web sites have the logo incorporated into the front page already, and without this option you would see two logos.  logos  To see the logo on the front page you also need to enable the logo under the Logo Background section of the Layout Options page. 

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If checked, this option will allow highlighted animals to be displayed on your front page and reorder animals on the animal browse pages.

For more information about the highlighted animals feature, see the article in this guide: Using the animal highlight feature.

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