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The Website Service Related Settings enables you to customize the pages for your animals on your website.
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The settings that pertain to animals are described in this chapter. Many of these settings pertain to the animal web pages also called the Animal Detail pages. Below is an example of an animal detail page.
Customizing the appearance of the Animal Detail
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The following are built-in options and settings for changing what appears on the Animal Detail page, (for more information about each, click the name).
- Page Layout - you can select from several layouts to determine how you want the page to appear.
- Popover - select whether or not you want the animal's page to pop up when the animal's name is clicked.
- Show the Animal Detail page share button - you can select the option to allow your visitors to share an animal's web page to friends.
- Disable the Animal Detail page Adoption Information link on courtesy animals - animals you posted as a courtesy to the community can have a link to your adoption process or application, or you can disable this so that courtesy animals are posted (and visitors can still fill out an application), but there is no link to the adoption application or process.
- Show DogTime.com content on the Animal Detail page - you can show information from your animal's posts on the DogTime.com website on your Animal Detail pages by default.
- How many Events to show on the Animal Detail page - you can list the Events in which the specific animal is involved on the Animal Detail page, and this option determines how many of the events to show.
- Enable the Meet Request feature - you can enable or disable the ability of visitors to submit a request for a meeting with the animal.
- Show the Adopt Me saying on the Animal Detail page - you can enable or disable the ability to post random adoption sayings, such as "Adopt me," on the Animal Detail page.
- Disable the My Rescue box on the Animal Detail page - you can enable or disable the My Rescue box so that visitors to the site can select the animal as a favorite.
- Disable the link to the Petbond animal adoption flyer - you can enable or disable the ability of visitors to print out animal adoption flyers for any of the animals on your website.
- Display the Animal Favorite count - this option allows you to display the number of people who have selected the specific animal as a favorite.
- Disable public access to the Animal Successes - this option allows you to enable or disable the ability of a visitor to see the Animal Successes information.
- Disable Animal Success Stories - Enable or disable the displaying the Animal Success Stories after an animal is adopted.
- Show transferred animals with successes - You can show animals that were transferred out of your rescue into another organization as successes.
- Show animal links on Animal List and on Layout 7 - you can have clickable links on the Animal List and when you use Layout 7.
- Show highlighted animals on the Animal Homepage.
- Settings for customizing animal images:
- Set the animal image border - you can elect to change the borders around the animal images.
- Set the animal image border color - determine the color of the border around the animal image.
- Set the animal image border color matte color - determine the color of the matte around the animal image.
- Handling videos in Animal Descriptions:
- Disable videos in the Animal Description - you can enable or disable the ability to include videos in the animal descriptions.
- Use a link instead of enabling the videos in the Animal Descriptions - if you don't enable videos in the animal descriptions, you can use a clickable link.
- Disable or enable the message that animal ages are only best estimates - self-explanatory - you can disable the "best estimate" message for the age.
- Additional features on the Animal Detail page - other features available for this page:
- Show or hide the contact/foster/caretaker on the Animal Detail page.
- Sponsor this pet - Display a link for people to be able to sponsor the pet.
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Choose one of the layouts from the drop-down adjacent to Animal detail page layout. 
the Animal detail page layout drop-down menu by tapping the layout you want to try. For more information about layouts, see Selecting a website layout.
In the Animal Detail page below, the picture is in the default style, in the center of the page. You can move the picture to the left with the description above or below it.
An example of a page with the image to the left is here:
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Shows the animal detail page as a popover.
Show the Animal detail page share button
Includes sharing buttons.
When you enable this option, the Animal Detail page appears as a popup page when a visitor clicks the animal's name from the list.
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See the screenshot above of Nod's web page. This option enables your visitor to select a social media outlet such as their Facebook account, by which to share an adoptable animal to their friends, or to help you promote an animal in need of a home. In the example above, the sharing box is under the animal's picture. Visitors to the page can click the Share button to get a list of social media outlets, including Facebook, Twitter, LINE, Kakao, and many other social media sites through which they can share the animal's page.
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Adoption Information link on courtesy animals
Removes You can elect to remove the Adoption Info link link from the animal detail page Animal Detail page. This is helpful if you do not want to use the built-in Adoption in Adoption Info page for your courtesty courtesy listing animals. Often the animal is not part of the organization and visitors may be asked to contact the contact person listed in the courtesy post directly rather than filling out an adoption application on the organizations website.organization's website. The adoption link lists the status and if available, a link to the adoption information page.
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Dogtime.com is part of a large network of pet bloggers and sites, offering readers a variety of topics about pet, and especially dog, care. Enabling this link puts the Learn more about link to the dog breed of the dog in question on that dog's information page.
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Show a link on the Animal detail page to Save-a-Dog or Save-a-Cat on DogTime.com
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If you use the Events feature, you can specify which animals will be attending each event (Animal Event Attendance). This . See the chapter, About Events for more information about events and how to adjust the settings to customize the way you display them. This How many Events to show option allows you to specify how many events to show on the every animal's detail page. See the screenshot below. If the animal is not slated to attend an event, the event will still be listed.
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First enable Before you enable the Meet Request feature, enable Events and add an Event. Then if See the chapter About Events for more information about using the Events feature. Once Events are enabled and at least one event is added, when you enable the Meet Request feature, this message will appear at the bottom of the animal detail page.
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These are sayings such as, "Won't you consider adopting me?" In the example above, you can see the adoption link under Nod's picture. Note that the word adopt is a clickable link to the adoption application. These sayings are randomly selected from a series of pre-written statements.
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Some organizations prefer to not have visitors register on their site while others prefer to have them register from a link on their menu. This option allows you to disable the My Rescue (register box) on the animal detail page.
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This disables You can enable or disable the link visitors can use to create print an animal adoption flyer for each animal.
This flyer . It is provided by PetBond.com, and is available only if your PetBond export is enabled.
For more information about Exports, see the About Animal Exports chapter. Exports are enabled by going to Animals > Exports.
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When a visitor has the My Rescue feature activated by registering on your site, they can see how many other people have picked the animal they are looking at as a favorite. For more information about My Rescue and about animal favorites, see the chapters, My Rescue and My Favorite Animals. Once you've enabled the favorite animal count, when a visitor who has the my Rescue feature activated looks at an animal's page, they will see the number of favorites as in the example below.
Example: "..favorite of 3 18 people"
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Animal successes
If You can list your adoptions on your site so that a visitor can look for an animal to see whether or not it has been adopted. Disable this option if you do not want to display your adopted animals.
For more information about adoptions, animal successes, and tracking adoptions, refer to the following chapters:
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Animal success stories are different from adoptions. You create the Animal Success Story that is listed on the website. You can use this feature or disable it. Often organizations disable it if they have no volunteers with the time or skill to write these stories. If you disable it, you can still allow visitors to view the adoptions.
For more information about Animal Success Stories, read the chapter, Using the Animals Success Story feature.
Disable this feature if you do not want to use the Stories feature.
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You can elect to have animals which were transferred out of your organization and into another rescue listed as successful adoptions. This is helpful if you are an organization, for instance, that partners with another organization in another city and your animals are pulled from shelters, vetted, and sent to the new city for adoption.
If you want to show animals you transferred out of your organization with your successesful successful adoptions, enable this function.
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Layout 7 can be previewed from Website > Layouts.
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There is a web page named Animal Home Page. If you use this built-in page, you can show your highlighted animals on it automatically by enabling this setting.
See below for what the highlighted animals would look like on your home page.
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There are several settings to help you customize the animal images on your website:
- Set the Animal image border
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- - choose whether or not you'd like to add a border
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- Set the Animal image border style
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- - if you use a border, you can select from one of two borders, a 1one-pixel border or a border with a colored matte around it.
- Set the Animal image border
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- color - select the color of the border around your animal images. If you want a black border, select blank. For both this selection and the matte color, use the ColorPicker (the square with the colored boxes to the right of the field) to select a color. See the screenshot below.
- Set the Animal image matte color - choose the color
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- of the matte to surround the image and border by using the ColorPicker. The blank selection gives a transparent matte.
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If you want to include a video in the animal descriptions on your website, you can select to have a video embedded in the description, or to have a link to the video in the descriptionBlank means transparent.
Disable videos in Animal descriptions
You can embed YouTube videos in the animal descriptions by enabling this setting. If you do not want to embed the video into the animal's description you can select the next option, to use a link to the video instead.
They will display as the opening image and a captionEnabling embeds the YouTube video as part of the description.
Use a link instead of embedding the video in Animal descriptions
If you do not want a preview of the video and prefer a link instead.
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This is a straightforward selection. When you've entered a birthdate for an animal (which we recommend you do), you can automatically include a message that the age that is calculated from that birth date is the best estimate.
This is what the message looks like on the page.
The setting is as follows.
Additional features on the Animal Detail Page
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The animal’s foster contact information will appear only if the foster’s contact information is set to Public View. Set this option in Contacts > Settings.
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If you enable this setting, a visitor can select to contact the foster directly from a link under the animal's picture.
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Display Select whether or not to display a link to Sponsor allow visitors to sponsor this pet. An animal does not have to be up for adoption to be sponsored.
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Below is the way the sponsorship link is displayed on your pages.
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