We just rolled out our updated website with our new Rolling Dog Farm name. It's at RollingDogFarm.org. Our existing RollingDogRanch.org website will automatically "roll over" or re-direct to the new site. Alayne and I will still be able to receive emails addressed to our old RDR email accounts, but we now also have email accounts for steve[at]rollingdogfarm.org and alayne[at]rollingdogfarm.org.
Thanks to our awesome web designer, Amy Austin, our updated site retains the same "look and feel" of the old site but is a much slimmer, easier-to-navigate version of its former self. The old site had literally thousands of individual pages and files associated with it, so "under the hood" it was very complicated any time we tried to make a change or update something.
To make it easer to maintain, and less time-consuming for me to manage from a content standpoint, we will no longer have full individual pages on each animal who arrives here. Instead, we have full pages on a representative number of our disabled animals -- like Widget, Cash, Spinner and many others -- but we will rely on blog posts for information on new arrivals and news about current residents. We have also added new content, some of which will be familiar to long-time blog readers.
Please note that we cannot get everything changed over to the new name all at once. This blog, for instance, will continue to have the old name and banner for a while. I will probably have to start a new one and then link back to stories on the original blog, since the posts all have unique "permalinks" tied to that blog name. Our online donations page currently has the RDR name on it; I'm waiting on Groundspring to update the banner to match the new website, which should happen sometime later this week.
If you have recurring donations set up, you don't need to do anything. Similarly, we are still able to deposit checks made out to Rolling Dog Ranch.
Our PetFinder page will need to change, too, but at least until the current Shelter Challenge ends, we will still be Rolling Dog Ranch -- so nothing changes there.
Amy and I haven't figured out what we're going to do about the existing RDR Facebook page, either.
There are lots of "moving parts" and it will take us some time to get to them all, so please bear with us. It's going to be a gradual ... um, you might say "rolling" ... change-over to the new name.
OH!! You have Cinder on the front page!! Yeah! What a sweet little thing she is. It is good to see her. Maybe you could show even 1 picture of where she calls home I would love to see it. I love dogs but kitties hold a special place in my heart, especially this little shiny black kitty. Ear scratchies to you sweet Cinder.
Posted by: Anne in FL | May 19, 2011 at 08:40 AM
I love farm - sounds good
Posted by: Janet | May 18, 2011 at 09:48 PM
IT LOOKS FABULOUS!!!!
Posted by: Shirley * James/Portland, OR | May 18, 2011 at 01:37 AM
Gee, Bo, next time you want more attention, just ask - - don't go getting a sore eyeball! :) Poor guy, I'm glad he's already better. I'm surprised to learn that a horse can squeeze his eye shut as hard as was described, but not surprised, I guess, considering how those intelligent animals find ways to do a great many things.
Posted by: Moon Rani | May 17, 2011 at 11:41 PM
Facebook page? How could I have missed that?
Posted by: Craig from Great Falls | May 17, 2011 at 10:51 PM
The new site looks great guys! If you happen to update and have a button for a sidebar I'd love to add it to my website.
Posted by: Ali | May 17, 2011 at 10:13 PM
Th website is perfect. Seeing and reading about Callie, Pappy, Evelyn and all the rest was a mixed bag of emotions. I need to go get a tissue now.
Posted by: Lynn (in Louisiana) | May 17, 2011 at 09:45 PM