The shelter template is ready

Most shelters we looked at run their website on a free site builder, or only on Facebook. The pets change every week, and the site rarely keeps up. We built a template for exactly this, and it is ready: you can try every part of it at shelter.cms-craft.com.

What the site does

• Pets for adoption. Each animal has its own page with a photo gallery, personality and health notes. Visitors filter the list to find the one that fits them.

• Volunteering. Volunteers pick a shift on the site and sign up for it.

• Help and donations. One page explains every way to help: donating, volunteering, fostering.

• A charity shop. Supporters buy small items for the shelter and pay by bank transfer.

• News and a blog. Adoption stories, events and calls for help, each with its own page that search engines can find.

• Czech and English. Every page exists in both languages.

Edit it where you see it

Log in, open your own website, and click the text you want to change. Pet photos are edited the same way. You change the text in the place your visitors read it. Everything else (new pets, posts, shifts) is managed in the admin panel at admin.cms-craft.com.

What you do not have to look after

We host the site on our own servers in Europe, and we keep it updated: security fixes reach shelter sites the same way they reach every other site we run (we described how in How we handle security releases (cms-craft.com/en/blog/how-we-handle-security-releases)). Improvements to the template arrive as updates we review and deploy for you.

How to start

1. Look around the demo (shelter.cms-craft.com) and note what you would change.

2. Write to us (cms-craft.com/en/contact) with your shelter's name and your current website, if you have one.

3. We set up your site from the template, with your name, contacts and colours, and show you how to add your first pet.

Write to us at info@cms-craft.com or through the contact form (cms-craft.com/en/contact). We reply to every shelter.