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Originally Posted by Winnie

I love the Check out our most recent Ads section on the homepage,
would like to know how you did that!

I have no trouble whatsoever viewing the site,
question: Only registered users may contact the Seller?
There is no Contact the Owner form displayed (not that I'm interested in buying a Stock 03 cobra heat exchanger or Ford 10 spline T56 input shaft!)

I plan on redoing the landing page as well, just havent gotten to it yet. To get the most recent ads I simply make a call to the database when the page is loaded and grab the 10 most recent ads and place them in a table.

I plan on adding some some Ford RSS feeds to my landing page as well to liven it up a bit as well just havent gotten around to it.

The reason I require people to register to contact the seller is to reduce the chance of people abusing the system. For example, if your site will let anyone "contact the owner" or "E-mail a friend" I could easily set up a script that populates the fields with some spam ad and mass mail everyone on your site who has an ad posted.

It also means that those selling ads can write reviews on people who buy their items. This can help others who are selling items determine if someone should be avoided etc.