Inexpensive Website Solutions for Animal Rescues & Shelters

We know your animal rescue website can't afford a full-blown database website as they typically run thousands of dollars. But that's what you really need. A site that can categorize and profile animals you have available for adoption, keep track of volunteers, provide customized searches for potential adoptors, easy upload of photos, videos and more.

We are offering this adapted open-source solultion based on a popular, flexible and stable real estate software because we want to help you help animals. To keep it simple, we are offering two solutions:

1) You install it (we just provide the files)

2) We install and customize it for you (and the software is FREE)

It's that easy.

Here are the details:

We are offering this web-based rescue dog management system written in PHP and provided by C OMalley & Associates LLC to animal rescues worldwide. Designed to be flexible, powerful, easy to install and maintain, it's engine has powered thousands of web sites worldwide. It is a mature application that is actively developed, and has been community supported since 2003. Rescue Website Manager was adapted for use as a dog rescue showcase but it's beauty is it's adaptable to all sorts of rescues - cats, horses, ferrets, birds - just about anything.  It can be added to an existing website, or function as a stand alone site - complete with additional pages and complex sort and search functions for available and adopted pets.

 Rescue Website Manager Features:

• All dynamically generated site-visitor content validates to XHTML 1.0 strict and CSS 2.0 standards.
• Graphical site administration interface.
• Built in choice of three WYSIWYG page editors for creating and modifying the content of key pages. Includes Tiny Mce, Fck Editor and Xinha.
• Fast installation on our hosting or other compliant hosts we can suggest.
• Keeps animal listings updated -- no special skills required to add, delete, or modify listings.
• Included Content Management System for editing informational pages.
• Built-in photo management -- upload photos via a web browser. If photos are not uploaded for a listing, a default "photo not available" image will be automatically displayed.
• Automatically creates thumbnails -- smaller versions of your photos are automatically created using the industry standard GD Graphics Library.
• Optional "Search Engine Optimized" (SEO) page links, and optimization features.
• Flexible database abstraction -- compatible with mySQL, postgres, MS SQL, and Oracle via. the ADODB lite database library. Optional ability to import CSV file content.
• Secure -- no one but the site Administrator or delegated volunteers can modify or add listings.
• Showcase specific animals-- built-in featured listing management allows custom placement and arrangement of  featured animals.
• Flexible search -- Browse animals according to a definable criteria.
• Uurable search forms and fields -- All search forms and fields included are completely definable to meet any needs.
• Template system -- Designers can produce a sophisticated functional site template.
• Integrated add-on system framework for application developers allows for extending or altering capabilities without altering its source code, making upgrades to newer versions easy.
• Powerful and professional
• Established
• Video uploads, Google map integration if desired, integrated blogging.

Rescue Website Manager is written entirely in PHP, and utilizes a standards compliant XHTML template system, designing a new template from scratch or incorporating the look of an existing web site is possible. 

The cost of a Rescue Website Manager website is well within the reach of even the smallest rescue.  The only costs are custom template design (if desired), configuration and yearly hosting/domain fees.  Rescue Website Manager allows even the smallest rescue to have a professional, searchable, self-maintained dynamic website at minimal cost. 

Easy to Maintain

Rescue Website Manager comes with a variety of options to make it easy for your volunteers and staff to keep the site up to date.  There is a choice of 3 different editors.. In the administration panel you have the option of which WYSIWYG editor you wish to use. FCKeditor has better xhtml support and Xinha has a better image manager. TinyMCE is the latest addition and has good xhtml support and an available addon image manager

• TinyMCE
• FCKEditor
• Xinha

Rescue Website Manager also has a choice of many optional add-on modules to improve performance, Search Engine searches and Maintenance.  A few of these include:

• Daily Notify - notify visitors when new dogs come into rescue and are added to the website
• Days in Rescue - keep track automatically how long a dog has been in rescue
• Database Utilities - back up, restore, repair and maintain your database for optimal performance
• Google Site Map - for excellent search rankings
• KB Slideshow - one of many slideshows and galleries available for your website
• Last update - keep track of updates and when they were done
• Mail All - notifiy site members of special events, fundraisers and more
• Menu editor - add pages and have them appear in the site menu automatically
• News - a news module
• O Rate - A ratings module
• Popgallery - another gallery for photos
• RSS Feeds - generate feeds automatically from your Rescue Site
• Enhanced search - more fields, more detail in the search fields
• Thumbnail viewer - generates thumbnails automatically
• User Page - a page with all member information such as saved searches and favorites all in one place
• Secure log in for members, volunteers and administrators

Fully extensible, Rescue Website Manager is a great option for small and large rescues of any kind.  It can be modified for any animal breed, or a variety of species.  Start small and grow, adding modules as donations permit. Our manager is Free with customization and hosting on recommeded servers.  Contact us for details.

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