List of Great Resources for 68 Classifieds
Here is a list of 19 great resources for working with 68 Classifieds:
Design
1. 68 Classifieds Basic Structure for Design Part 1
2. 68 Classifieds Basic Structure for Design Part 2
3. Smarty Templates and You
4. Template design tutorial!
5. 68 Classifieds – The Power of Includes
6. 68 Classifieds Auto Loaded Search Fields
7. Featured listings by category
Tutorials
8. How I Reduced Most of My Abandoned Listings
9. Add an RSS Feed to the Seller Store
10. Using the RSS Feed
11. RSS Management with FeedBurner
12. 68 Classifieds and Google Apps
13. Classifieds and Spammers
14. Understanding Images
15. Custom Administration Folder
Development
16. Import Listings into 68 Classifieds
17. Building a news module – 68 Classifieds
18. 68 Classifieds and Smarty Caching
19. Stepping into Smarty - Conditionals
If you find any that are missing and you have found useful please post in the comments and I will add it to the list.
End of Summer Blowout!
Have you been sweating the purchase of 68 Classifieds Developer edition? Well, check out these cool deals!
We are proud to announce an end of summer sale. Now until September 1st 2009 we are discounting the 68 Classifieds Developer Edition and Developer Upgrades.
This sale has now ended!
v4.1.5 Is Now Released
V4.1.5 is now released and is available from our customers section. This is a bug fix release and fixes all bugs reported to date. You can view the full list of bugs fixed here.
Changes:
This is just a bug fix release. You can see a list of changed files in the Change Log
Notes:
If you find any bugs please post them to our bug tracker here:
68 Classifieds Issue Tracker
The download is available in our customers area:
68 Classifieds Customers Area
Included in the download is a change log between the last release and this one. You can also view this in our documentation.
Site Showcase Megavoce.it
Megavoce.it is an Italian multi-city classified site; for this reason it was necessary for us to have a module for the activities management.
The people of Megavoce.it worked really hard and so long in order to obtain what they had clear from the beginning, and they can’t say they have finished yet; there are still some adjustments they planning to do.
Some of the features we have added are:
- Video tutorial for the various steps required to insert a listing (the list of the video can be found at this page http://www.megavoce.it/pages.php?pg=video-tutorial )
- Rotation tips in the home page (Do you know that?) which suggest to the users what can be done in the site. Every advise is linked to an answer in our FAQ section.
- A pop-up which makes more viewable that there are new private messages.
- Lots of changes to the template, to get the graphic we wanted.
- We made more clear the part of the “contact the author of the listing”
- All the categories and the sub-categories in home page are shown, in order to give a more rapid access for the users.
These are just some of the numerous features we created for the software; others are in progress and they’re waiting to see the light. We are very proud of what we have achieved, and 68 classified was the right choice to realize our site.
1. What made you decide to start a classifieds website?
In a moment of financial crisis, when every job is at risk, we had the idea of a classifieds website;
we wanted to create our OWN job, being “the bosses of ourselves”; working on something we like is the best way to create omethin valiable and offer, at the same time, an accurate service to our users.
2. When building your site what was the biggest hurdle?
The hardest part of the work was create a multi city filter; we took a template from templatecodes.com (we really thank David and John!) but it wasn’t exactly how we wanted it. But, after three weeks of debugging, we manage to obtain the result we wanted.
3. What was the easiest?
The easiest task was to translate the software in Italian; it took time, but it wasn’t so hard.
4. If you had to rebuild it again would you do anything differently?
I’d make the site as it looks now, but I would add some features, such as “add a listing to this category” while you are in a specific category and a disclaimer before getting in the adult’s category
5. The site looks successful. Are there any tips you can give people just starting out in the classifieds industry?
The key is to create something people need, something personal, not to be a simple drop in the sea. For example, we add video tutorials, manage the colors of the pages etc…
Site Showcase - Suzuki Kawasaki of Gastonia
Motorcycle dealership using 68 Classifieds as a dealership management system. This site includes a custom template and a few custom modules. You can read the full write up at my site Eric Barnes.
July 4th Holiday
First off I want to wish everyone a happy fourth of July which here in the USA is Independence Day.
In observance of this holiday we will be short staffed starting June 27th through July 12th. We will be checking tickets but responses will be delayed and the time we can answer will be sporadic. So if it all possible we recommend you post any questions to our community forums so you receive a quicker response. The wonderful thing about forums like ours is we have customers from all over the world and in different time zones so chances are someone is looking at them when you are.
Thanks again for being a customer and we wish you all the best!
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