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The general site settings have to do with how your website visitors see your site. 

Site down for maintenance

Checking Yes for this option prevents visitors from viewing your web sitewebsite. The web site will instead display a message:

If you are an admin of your web site website you will still be able to login log in and manage the web sitewebsite. Check No for this option to allow visitors to view your web site website again.

User Email Alerts for Favorite Animals and Breeds

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

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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 logo image. The image will be added as an Open Graph (og:image) meta tag. Open Graph is a protocol that allows you to control content shown on Facebook. Using a logo image in the meta data metadata will ensure that when someone shares your page on Facebook, your logo will appear.

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 information 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

A slogan is the a 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 Layout slogan 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. Remember, not all layouts use this information.

Active menu

The Active menu is that menu currently in use on your website. This settings selection is a drop-down list of 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 sitewebsite.

To create a custom menu, please see the Changing your website menu article in this guide.

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Front Page Options are those options that have to do with your website's home pagehomepage. Each setting in this section will determine what your home page homepage will automatically display to your visitors.

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