Welcome to the brand new 68 Classifieds

Our main site here has been way over due for a face lift and we are now proud to unveil our new design. The site you see now is the work of a lot of sleepless nights and the help from some great friends and customers. The design work was done by James Paden from Xemion.com. If you haven’t visited his site before then I recommend visiting and subscribing to his blog. He has lots of great articles and not to mention the web designer directory is built upon 68 Classifieds. James is a great guy and has more design and business knowledge than anyone I have ever had the pleasure of working with.

Some changes we have made for the new site is we are featured third party templates and modifications on our home page. These are pulled from our ClassifiedMods.com site and only the ones with the highest ratings are shown. So if you use any third party modification please go rate it. This will not only help new customers find the best things available but also show your appreciation to the developer behind it.

We have also changed our customer section just a little to hopefully make it easier for you to get your downloads. Now on the customer dashboard it lists all your products ordered with a link to download it. This way you will no longer have to go through three steps just to download or change the domain associated with your license. We have additional plans for this portion of our site but didn’t have time to fully integrate them all. Look for those in the coming months.

The forums are also integrated with the new design instead of the way it was before with a totally different layout. I think this makes the site more uniform no matter where you are at or what you are looking for.

Behind The Scenes

The layout portion of the new site was built using the 960 css grid framework and I must say I really like using that framework. It is one that just made sense to me and pretty easy to integrate.

The main site, shopping cart, and customer area is built using the CodeIgniter PHP framework. Actually it has been running that for a while now. This blog is using WordPress and shares the same css style sheet as the main portion.

In Closing

I want to take this opportunity to thank you (our customers) for making us what we are today and with out we wouldn’t be doing what we love. I think it is great to be able to use people that use your product whenever possible and this goes to show that it can be done.

As with any new design it is still a work in progress and if you happen to notice anything out of the ordinary or something that just doesn’t look pleasing please let us know. Also we would love to hear your comments on the new site.