Fully Loaded Item Display
When visitors browse an advertised item, they're a single click away from complete, categorized groups of information. The following information is directly accessible, depending on that the viewer clicks on:
1. the item's photos, always visible regardless
of the info section being viewed, are all grouped into one area of the page. Each photo can be previewed by moving the mouse over the photo array number. As the mouse hovers over a number, a caption, if available, appears, which describes the photo. Clicking on the photo number opens a new window,
displaying the image in it's original size.
2. the price of the item is shown directly underneath the photos. If the currency is in anything other than US$, hovering the mouse over the price displays the converted price in US$... clicking the price button displays the exchange ratio between
the two currencies. Your visitors will always be able to comprehend the value of an item, either in its default currency or its US$ equivalent.
3. if the seller of the item has offered an instant payment option, a payment button appears alongside the price button. Payment is always
calculated in US$ equivalents so that there are never any headaches with aligning your default currency with the US$ value expected from most credit card gateways.
4. item details such as general information, features, additional comments, are shown in the exact order you prefer.
5.
contact information, along with either a direct email link or a message form, is displayed in neat order.
6. if the seller has included a personal bio, the viewer can read it directly within the advertised item page.
7. if the item has a price, a loan or mortgage calculator is
available to quickly estimate the cost of financing a purchase
8. every item includes a link to a new page, optimized for printing. All necessary information, including all photos associated with the item, is included.
Dynamic, Content-rich Staff Listings
Any account on
your system that is labeled as a staff account can automatically be included in a dynamic contact listing so that your visitors have quick and ready access to all the information they require, including an email form and a brief account profile (bio), which adds a personal touch for your visitors.
The staff list is accessed from "Automobile Website"'s start page. The administrator never needs to manage or edit this page since the content is dynamically generated, based on account settings.
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Multiple, Dynamic Search Options
Your search form is a
direct reflection of how you configure the Forms Genie. For your staff and clients, posting items is a breeze. For your visitors, it's equally as simple. You decide what can be searchable, you add informational content if necessary, and the search form automatically updates itself to your wishes,
including the access to multiple department searches if applicable! Each department will produce its own unique, point-and-click search screen.
If available, Spotlight (featured) items automatically appear in the search bar before the user submits any criteria. Spotlight items vary depending
on the department being accessed. It's a fantastic way to promote the products and services that you most want to!
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New Item Notifications
Give your visitors reasons to visit your site often! When they sign up for new item notifications, they'll automatically receive
email notice of new advertisements that meet their keyword criteria. A direct link to the item is provided in the email, and the displayed link includes another link (not otherwise visible when viewing item displays from search results lists) which guides them to "Automobile Website"'s
homepage! Of course, "Automobile Website" behaves in ethical fashion by offering visitors a simple cancelation of their new item notification services at any time!
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Administration Control Panel
Admin functions are vast and fully contained in multiple control
panels.
Virtually any function can be enabled or disabled, any data can be created, manipulated, or deleted, colors can be edited, from control panels... there is no need to manually open any configuration files to edit them... even the language file can be modified through the editor
control panel!
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Intelligent Help System
Instead of making you seek out, from one large page, specific information on a feature you need assistance with, "Automobile Website"'s help system shows you information based on the function you've currently accessed,
resulting in a much more pleasant, informative, and less obtrusive user experience than what other software packages offer. With the dazzling array of features "Automobile Website" includes, instant assistance is a simple click away at any time!
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Forms Genie
The Forms Genie is an awesome control panel component enables you to set up "Automobile Website" for almost any purpose imaginable.
Are you seeking a real estate classifieds program that is tailored specifically for homes and other types of property? With customized post
and search forms to allow you and your staff/clients to quickly add new items? Don't bother with competing products, where you probably will always require someone to customize things even further... "Automobile Website" will work for you EXACTLY as you want it to, and effortlessly help
you expand the feature-set you need via the Forms Genie... you can even add new departments for related products or services!
Whether it's real estate, automobiles, cameras, computer hardware, (ahem) escort services, etc... the Genie makes it all possible, with point and click
simplicity!
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Account Settings
You, and your staff and clients, have point-and-click simplicity when entering account information.
Numerous options, including administrative permissions, enabling/creating personal bios and attaching photos to them, are a breeze
to manage!... and if in doubt, the Account Settings screen, among several others, include a help button which displays information specific to the function currently accessed.
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Business Information
All your company details are entered and edited through an admin
control panel. If you ever need to change one or more items of information, you just need to do it once in your control panel and the changes are made system-wide! No manual editing!
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Theme and Icon Genies
The Theme and Icon Genies help you set "Automobile
Website"'s color theme in less than the time it takes you to blink your eyes, all with more than a dozen built-in color combinations to choose from! If you don't like your new selection, simply revert to your previous theme or icon set, or change them every once in a while for a fresh new
look!
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Theme Creator
If no built-in theme meets your taste requirements, the Theme Creator quickly allows you to construct and save your very own color theme with any combination of colors! Whether you need a 'corporate' style theme or just want something a little more
'artsy' the Theme Creator will satisfy!
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Photo Uploader
You can specify how many photos may be attached for each advertised item. Your users will easily be able to upload and manage their images through a photo control panel that makes itself available for every item,
automatically associating images with the appropriate item. But that's not the only automatic process...
... Do you dread the thought of your users submitting images the size of posters, taking up all your server's hard disk space? "Automobile Website"'s built-in image resizing and
compression functions make that nightmare a thing of the past!
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Easy-To-Use Item Post/Edit Form
"Automobile Website" gives you the power to set up a classifieds system any way you want. That means you can create and display advertisements
specific to a type of product or service. Because businesses don't have time to constantly type various information and format headings in order for the advertisement to display in neat, logical order, "Automobile Website" saves everyone valuable time by providing quick access to
individual item listings, combined with a post interface as simple and straightforward, or as option-rich, as you like.
Regardless of how you set things up, managing your advertised items is point-and-click simple!
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Built-In Content Editor
"Automobile Website" offers the capability to create and edit homepage link files and the language file from within a control panel interface. No longer is an external editing application required, nor do you need to acess your server via FTP to delete or send up documents!
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Group Mailer
The mailer component includes a template creator for quick, easy insertion of information that you may need to send out to users frequently. Or, you can access the mail form directly and send a one-time mailing to all recipients
The mailer sends messages to one of three user groups, depending on your choice: you can send messages to all your staff, or to all external clients, or to subscribers of new ad notifications. Any email task that's related to "Automobile Website" can be performed from the mailer
control panel component. You do not need to use other applications!
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Meta Tag Creator
Quickly and effortlessly include your own meta tag information for use with popular search engines! There's even a section for GeoTags, which are meta tags especially designed to help
pinpoint your geographical location!
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Dual PayGate
"Automobile Website" enables time-subscriptions and/or item payments directly online, through the services of PayPal.
There is almost nothing to configure within "Automobile Website" to
enable collecting payments via PayPal (as long as you have a PayPal account to set up with it). The PayGate system can be configured to charge users for posting items over a specified amount of time, and it can additionally be set up to accept payment for items, whether using the system's default
Paypal account or allowing individual users to collect payment. It all depends on the type of service you intend to operate, nevertheless, "Automobile Website" makes it all a wonderfully painless experience!
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Quick, Easy Time-Subscriptions
If enabled by the
administrator, users will have easy access to a payment window when necessary. Once payment is accepted, the user will have instant time-based allowance to post advertisements on your system!
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Numerous System Switches
Virtually all "Automobile Website"
functions can be enabled or disabled through the sytem control panel... want to provide your services for free? No problem! Want users to pay? No sweat! Forbid image uploading? Disable external client contact details in item displays? Want to verify accounts and advertisements before they're made
publicly viewable? Disable personal bios?
All this, and much more, further combined with other administrative control panels, make "Automobile Website" a fully dynamic classifieds package!
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Visual Tweaks
"Automobile Website" makes it
possible for one site to look completely different from another, not only through color theme and icon options, but also via what visual options are enabled or disabled. You can include a logo area at the top of the browser window, implement special transition effects for item displays, create a
colored border around "Automobile Website"'s main layout, and more!
Some other features built into "Automobile Website" include...
Mini-Browser (optional)
The MiniBrowser is a small client application that, when launched, automatically opens an embedded
Internet Exporer browser and instantly directs the user to your website. This is a great utility, giving your visitors quick access to your site from a desktop icon, rather than making them type your site's address manually or selecting it from a list of bookmarks, let alone counting on them to
bookmark your URL in the first place! The MiniBrowser will be available by mid-March/2003 for an additional US$50.00, and its slick interface can be previewed in some of the screenshots above.
Remote Update
Many competing classifieds packages include no easy way to keep updated of
new versions. You need to visit their website to find out, and when you download the newer version, you're usually instructed to delete one file or another, or replace it with a newer one, or open certain files to edit the code etc... and if all goes well, your installation runs fine. But why bother
when "Automobile Website"'s Remote Update function always lists updated components from within the admin control panel? And there's no editing, deleting, etc required, just upload the newer files and you're finished!
Automatic Image Resizing and Compression
Do you dread the
thought of your users submitting images the size of posters, taking up all your server's hard disk space? "Automobile Website"'s configurable, built-in image resizing and compression functions make that nightmare a thing of the past!
Automatic Dual Currency Display
It
doesn't matter if your products or services are priced in Dollars, Yen, Rubles, or whatever... "Automobile Website" will automatically include a U.S. dollar equivalent value. As long as your visitors are familiar with U.S. currency, they'll always comprehend the value of the items you're
advertising!
Dynamic Homepage Sidebar
You don't need a code editor to create additional static or dynamic pages in the starting page sidebar. Nor do you need to manually create a layout containing links to your pages. "Automobile Website" includes a homepage sidebar control
panel that allows you to set up your links just how you want them, and edit their content online, with the built-in editor!
Discrete, Protected Email
No need to worry about spammers harvesting the email links from "Automobile Website" PRO... the links don't exist. All email
correspondence is performed by way of online forms. Additionally, "Automobile Website" PRO's email is html-based because PHP currently has problems sending text-based email in the correct format... html-based email solves this issue. "Automobile Website" PRO also ensures that
email does get delivered to anonymous email addresses such as Hotmail and Yahoo!
Spotlight Advertising
Any item can be set as a Spotlight item, which means that when visitors click on "Automobile Website"'s search button, they'll instantly be greeted with a list of featured
items alongside the search form!
Price Markups
If you operate as a middleperson for other businesses wanting to sell their products on your website, "Automobile Website" now stores the cost price and automatically calculates the listed selling price based on your prefered
markup, either by percentage, or by amount, or both!
Any-Language Support
Virtually all of the static text "Automobile Website" generates from one page to another is extracted from an independent language file which you can translate or reword in any way you like... all
withing "Automobile Website"'s built-in editor!
Multiple Admin Levels
Besides the main administrator, other users can have admin powers based on a multitude of options. There are literally dozens of unique admin configurations possible, so that when the time comes for you
to depart on your vacation, you can rest assured that not only will others be able to manage your "Automobile Website" data, but they also will never have complete power over functions that only you prefer to retain!
Elegant Interface
The interface has been carefully
thought out and designed to provide maximum ease of use for administrators, staff, clients, and customers! You will find the interface to be very professionally finished, very intuitive and very simple to navigate, it can easily display a wealth of organized information even on 800x600 monitor
resolutions with minimal scrolling, and yet even more enhancements and tweaks are in the works. Note that "Automobile Website" is NOT a frames-based interface! It incorporates iframes where and when logic dictates, otherwise "Automobile Website" deploys straight-forward html
markup. Because of this logical design, you never need to get your hands dirty by modifying the "Automobile Website" source code. That's how all programs should behave, otherwise we'd have no such thing as a mouse to click our way through to where we want to go!
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