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How To - Add a ThickBox Photo Gallery

We get a lot of users who want to add JavaScript image galleys to the viewlisting template file and in this post I will step out how to add ThickBox from http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/.
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French Property Classifieds

French Property Classifieds is a new portal offering free advertising of property in France for French estate agents and private vendors.

Following the success of the Seymour-James brand and its web site covering property in South West France; Adept Marketing SARL (Bordeaux, France) has moved to cover the whole country for those selling French property.

David Seymour, the proprietor of Adept Marketing comments: “We are pleased to propose quality advertising services to estate agents in France and private vendors of property across the whole of France. The new website, braded as French Property Classifieds is so easy to use. It is a very nice and cost effective advertising channel as compared to traditional marketing in the press. Of note, it is very cost effective for the advertiser to list his properties.

French Property Classifieds is a new offering built using 68 Classifieds. It simply reflects a new trend of using highly sophisticated dynamic internet sites which also serve search engine friendly web pages.

“We are delighted to have been selected by Adept Marketing SARL for their new venture and wish David much success!”

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New Classifieds Industry Website

The online classifieds industry can be very lucrative if you know the ropes. Until recently online classifieds website owners and managers were on there own trying to figure out what makes the industry tick and how to get a piece of the classifieds pie.

A team of classified website owners have banded together and formed an online community forum that is dedicated to the classifieds industry. Not only does it discuss day-to-day techniques but they also offer valuable ideas on marketing, HTML, graphic design, multimedia and search engine optimization all of which is part of running a successful classified ads website business.

Part of the classifieds industry website is a gallery of classifieds websites that users can get some ideas from. Our users are all professional and courteous and will go out of their way to help you says Brian Hussey the administrator of the site.

Brian has been involved in online communities for years and strives to help people, Brian is a problem solver and decided to launch the Classifieds Industry forum because there was nothing else out there to help people in the industry.

Classified script developers have their own forums that help their own customers with scripts and that’s great but what we wanted to offer is an extension of these communities and bring owners of sites together to share their knowledge in a global community. Brian goes on to say that once the word gets out the classifieds industry forum will be an awesome community that can help everyone in the industry become successful.

Visit their growing community today www.ClassifiedsIndustry.com

v4.0.5 Is now released

V4.0.5 is now released and is available from our customers section. This is a bug fix release and also includes a new feature to order payment gateways. You must run the setup and follow the upgrade steps.

To see the full change log and read the whole announcement please visit this forum thread.

RSS Management with FeedBurner

In a previous blog article we wrote about how to Use RSS to stay in contact. This is a great way of getting return visitors to your site. One big drawback with RSS is it is hard to track how many subscribers and how often the feed is actually used.

A great service now owned by Google is FeedBurner. With FeedBurner you can enter your rss feed and it will create a new link that allows you to advertise. When people signup for this feed it gives you feed tracking, statistics, and more ways for visitors to subscribe.

You can also burn different feeds so you can have a main feed, certain categories, or any other option you can imagine.

New Translations

From our last post a few weeks ago “Translators Wanted” we had an outstanding amount of comments, emails, and coupons given out. In the next release of 68 Classifieds we will be including the following language files:

• Bosanski
• Bulgarian
• Dutch
• French
• Spanish

Hopefully with us having all these language files it will help current and future customers from having to do a lot of work to get 68 Classifieds running in your language.