SnoWest Forum Members:
For the last several weeks we have been working on a new module to completely overhaul and upgrade the SnoWest Forums. I am happy to announce that this new part of SnoWest is now ready for public testing.
If you will look on your main menu bar, you will find a new listing "Swapmeet". When you click on this 6 new options will appear.
Main Page
List All Ads
Place an Ad
Search Ads
My Watch List
Subscriptions
My Ads
From now till Friday October 16th the SwapMeet will be in TESTING MODE. That means you welcome and invited to place TEST ADS in the forum to learn how the system works and help us debug the new software. If all goes well, On Friday the 16th ALL ADS WILL BE DELETED and the system will go live. When that happens we will begin a gradual phase out of the old Swapmeet forum over the course of a few weeks.
So, I invite you to go take a look at the newest section of SnoWest, and then to come back to this tread and post your comments.
If you find something that doesn't work properly, Please Report It.
If you have a constructive suggestion of how we might make it work better, Please Post it. Our goal is to create a more dynamic and useful Swapmeet section for all our SnoWest Members.
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The feature lists below are detailed but not completely comprehensive. Some features exist that are not mentioned here.
Classified Ad Templates
User Features
Registration System Features
Other Features
For the last several weeks we have been working on a new module to completely overhaul and upgrade the SnoWest Forums. I am happy to announce that this new part of SnoWest is now ready for public testing.
If you will look on your main menu bar, you will find a new listing "Swapmeet". When you click on this 6 new options will appear.
Main Page
List All Ads
Place an Ad
Search Ads
My Watch List
Subscriptions
My Ads
From now till Friday October 16th the SwapMeet will be in TESTING MODE. That means you welcome and invited to place TEST ADS in the forum to learn how the system works and help us debug the new software. If all goes well, On Friday the 16th ALL ADS WILL BE DELETED and the system will go live. When that happens we will begin a gradual phase out of the old Swapmeet forum over the course of a few weeks.
So, I invite you to go take a look at the newest section of SnoWest, and then to come back to this tread and post your comments.
If you find something that doesn't work properly, Please Report It.
If you have a constructive suggestion of how we might make it work better, Please Post it. Our goal is to create a more dynamic and useful Swapmeet section for all our SnoWest Members.
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The feature lists below are detailed but not completely comprehensive. Some features exist that are not mentioned here.
Classified Ad Templates
- Categories can use provided templates for Classifieds For Sale, Wanted.
- New templates easily added
- Additional custom fields per category
- Extensive customization of categories for look and feel
User Features
- NEW! Sellers can place classified ads for fixed prices or with optional eBay style bidding enabled
- Sellers can upload several photos to display with each classified ad
- Sellers can set an expiration date for each ad
- SOLD IT! and RELIST IT! options to disable/re-enable ads
- NEW! User feedback system to provide ratings and feedback for buyers and sellers
- Contact seller page allows buyers to contact sellers without revealing seller email address
- Search by keyword
Registration System Features
- Integrates with third-party forums; including vB2, vB3, UBB Threads, phpBB2, InvisionBoard, Nuke/PostNuke, DCFroums+, SMF, Ikon and PhotoPost/ReviewPost
- Supports user groups and admin editing of user groups to enable specific permissions for different users
- User profiles
- Encrypted passwords
- Supports COPPA (can be disabled)
- Auto verify user email address
- Admin editing of user levels and profiles
- Ban users
- Allow/disallow new user registrations.
- Allow users to change passwords.
- An automated "I Forgot my password" feature.
Other Features
- MySQL database driven
- Can integrate with vbPortal
- Multi-language support via template files. English provided.
- ZLIB compression support to speed page loading, reduce bandwidth
- Option to require users be registered to view ads
- UBB/VB Code (linkify, bold, etc) for ad descriptions
- Traffic tested on sites with over 3M monthly page views
- Dynamic titles for pages to improve search engine indexing
- Help system. Popup windows with help topics.
- Configurable date formats and time offsets per user
- GD2 support for image resizing, watermarks and on-the-fly watermarks (or use ImageMagick for all but on-the-fly)
- ImageMagick support for image resizing and watermarks (or use GD2)
- Supports JPG, GIF, PNG, and TIF file formats for ad images when using ImageMagick, or JPG, GIF and PNG formats when using GD2
- Automatic thumbnail creation of ad images
- Thumbnail display pages show details for each ad such as number of views and date posted.
- Product images stored on disk in a directory rather than in the database, which allows them to be cached by browsers, saving bandwidth.
- Number of ads limited only by your server's diskspace (for images) and MySQL's record limits
- IP caching
- prevents multiple views in a configurable timeframe
- Known to work on RaQ 3/4 systems