Rolling Dog Farm Blog

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.