Photo Edition

Special Introductory Offer: For a limited time, the Photo Edition is available for only $99. After November 30, the price of this program will be $119. Act now to get the most powerful photo classified ads program available. If you have been looking for a high quality classifieds program that allows your users to upload their own photos with their ads, look no more. The Photo Edition is packed with features found nowhere else such as the ability to turn photo uploading on or off and several options for viewing the photos (full size, as thumbnails, as icons that link to the full size photos, or turned off). Plus, it handily beats the competition on price as well. Act now before this special introductory price is history!

If you were thinking about buying the Smart Photo Ads program, please take a look at our detailed feature comparison chart first. We think you'll agree that the e-Classifieds Photo Edition is a much better program and a much better value.

Feature Summary

The Photo Edition includes the following photo features (items printed in red are exclusive to the e-Classifieds Photo Edition and are not available with the Smart Photo Ads program or any other program):

• Allows users to upload photos with their ads
• Admin can set maximum file size of uploaded photos
• Admin can set maximum pixel size (width and height) of uploaded photos
• Program checks to make sure that uploaded photo is a valid .GIF or .JPG format
• Admin can turn off photo uploading
• Photos can be viewed, printed, and saved as real .GIF or .JPG files (the competition's program does not allow viewing, printing, or saving the photos separately, which appear as a bunch of computer gibberish)
• Admin can choose how photos are displayed with the ads
• Photos can initially be displayed full-size with the ads
• Photos can initially be displayed as thumbnails with the ads
• Admin can specify size of thumbnail photos that are displayed with the ads
• Photos can be linked to from icons that are initially displayed with the ads
• Photo display in ads can be turned off
• HTML for photos is generated dynamically for smaller data file sizes, greater speed, and better scalability (rather than being stored in the actual ads database such as in the Smart Photo Ads program, which is a cumbersome method that greatly decreases the performance of your classified ads and limits their scalability)
• HTML for icons that link to photos is generated dynamically for smaller data file sizes, greater speed, and better scalability (rather than being stored in the actual ads database such as in the Smart Photo Ads program, which is a cumbersome method that greatly decreases the performance of your classified ads and limits their scalability)

The Photo Edition also includes the following features (items printed in red are exclusive to the e-Classifieds Photo Edition and are not available with the Smart Photo Ads program):

• Web-based interface allows admin to modify or delete any ad, review new ads before they are posted, send out e-mail notices to users whose ads are about to expire, purge old ads, run the Keyword Notify program, view the mailing list, clear the mailing list, and send out mass e-mails to subscribers
• Admin can define varying expiration dates for ads (this can be set to any number of days, as opposed to only by the week or month with the Smart Photo Ads program)
• Ability for users to post ads for varying amounts of time
• European date format option
• Internationalization features, including a "Country" field
• Support for optional fee-based classifieds
• Multiple fee levels
• Optional e-mail invoices to posters on fee-based systems
• Can optionally charge for renewals and allows admin to set amount of renewal charge
• Automatically displays specified number of ads on each page, with a "See the Next 10 Hits" button
• Displays latest ads first
• Can limit number of categories ad is posted to
• Can limit number of times an ad is renewed
• Can limit number of words per ad
• Can block duplicate ads
• Ad owner can modify or delete at any time
• Automatically inserts the contents of the current ad into the modification form for easier modification
• Optional e-mail notification to admin when ads are posted, modified, or deleted
• Optional e-mail response to user when ad is posted
• Allows clickable URLs in ads
• Allows clickable e-mail addresses in ads (these can be hidden through the Privacy Mail option)
• Can collect names and e-mail addresses for mailing list
• Can send mass e-mails to subscribers who have signed up for your mailing list
• Optional warning e-mail notices to users whose ads are about to expire
• Can automatically purge expired ads
• "Warning" and "Purge" programs can be run automatically by the program or as separate programs that are run either as "cron" jobs or manually
• Optional pre-screening of new ads by the admin
• Keyword Notify service sends new ads to users that match their pre-defined keywords
• Allows multiple search agents under the Keyword Notify service for the same e-mail address
• Allows admin to specify how often the Keyword Notify service should run
• Boolean searching (any words, all words, or exact phrase)
• File locking (prevents data files from being written to by two different processes at once)
• Customizable ad categories that can easily be defined through a setup variable
• Customizable ad display including the width of the ad tables, table border size, text and background colors within the ad tables, and the text font.
• Users have the option of displaying their postal address and telephone number in the ad
• Password protection for ads so that only the original poster can modify or delete
• Year 2000 compliance (provided that your other server hardware and software is also Y2K compliant)
• Administrative password that allows admin to modify or delete any ad
• Privacy Mail, which hides the e-mail addresses of those posting ads
• Dynamic generation of HTML pages
• Global variables for defining the appearance of HTML pages generated
• Only one CGI program controls all operations, which makes it easier to set up and maintain
• Advertising banners can be included on the pages
• Date range searching
• Case-sensitive searching
• E-mail address validity checking
• URL validity checking
• User passwords are stored in a secure area (they are stored in an insecure area on the competition's Smart Photo Ads program and are viewable by anyone, leaving your users' ads vulnerable to being modified or deleted by other users)
• Can display ads in short "Headlines" format or as full ads
• Allows users to specify whether they want to view ads as "headlines" or full ads

Quite simply, the Photo Edition does more and costs less, and it's also easier to configure and maintain. At only $119 (and only $99 if purchased before November 30, 1998), the Photo Edition outperforms all competitors' products, and it costs less than many of them. For example, it contains all of the features (and quite a few more) of the Smart Photo Ads program, which costs $149-$215 plus an additional $35 for the add-on e-mail component, making your total cost for that program $184-$250. For only $119 total ($99 if purchased before October 31, 1998), the e-Classifieds Photo Edition has privacy e-mail built in, plus some additional features that are missing from the Smart Photo Ads program, such as dynamic generation of HTML pages. That way, you don't have to manually change a whole bunch of HTML files every time that you change a configuration setting or add a new category. The Photo Edition also contains global variables for defining the appearance of all HTML pages generated. The program contains the ability to include banners on the pages, date range searching, and case-sensitive searching. It even checks e-mail addresses and URLs entered for validity. Smart Photo Ads contains none of these features. Moreover, our Keyword Notify feature contains more options than the "Keyword Advisory Service" contained in Smart Photo Ads and, unlike that program, it can be set to run periodically at timed intervals in order to reduce the load on your server, avoid decreasing the performance of normal program operations, and avoid annoying your users with random, multiple e-mail messages. It also allows you to set up multiple search agents for the same e-mail address, which thiers does not. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, your users' passwords are stored in a secure area with our program. As for the competition, however, the Smart Photo Ads program stores user passwords in an insecure area that is viewable by anyone, leaving your users' ads vulnerable to being modified or deleted by other users.

Additionally, when it comes to photos, the e-Classifieds Photo Edition outshines Smart Photo Ads on several counts. For example, the Smart Photo Ads program does not display the photos as real .GIF or .JPG files that can be viewed separately, printed, or saved, a "feature" that will annoy your users (try viewing, printing, or saving the photos with the competition's program and all you'll get is a bunch of computer gibberish). Moreover, that program doesn't even give you the option of turning off its photo uploading feature, which you might need to do sometime on a temporary basis to conserve disk space, block a spammer, or for other reasons. Nor is that program as flexible in its display options for the photos. While our program allows you to display photos in four different formats (full-size, as thumbnails, as icons, or not at all), the competition forces you to use its one built-in display format, regardless of whether that suits your needs.

The e-Classifieds Photo Edition is also much more capable "under the hood" than the Smart Photo Ads program. With our program, the HTML for the photos is generated dynamically for smaller data file sizes, greater speed, and better scalability. With the competition, this HTML is not generated dynamically, but rather is stored in the actual ads database itself, which is a cumbersome method that greatly decreases the performance of your classified ads and limits their scalability. To make matters worse, the competition also stores the HTML for the icons that link to the photos in the ads database as well. Depending on the amount of text actually contained in the ads themselves, this cumbersome method results in performance and scalability reductions of roughly 33-50 percent compared to our program.

Moreover, the e-Classifieds Photo Edition is part of a family of classified ads programs that includes our high-end, database-driven Professional Edition and Commerce Edition, which offer unrivaled performance and features. As a result, it benefits from our expertise as the market leader in producing premium-quality web-based classifieds solutions. In addition, all of these programs share a similar interface, and registered owners of the Photo Edition are eligible for discounted upgrades to the higher versions. That way, you won't have to face the dilemma of either being forever locked into a low-end solution or having to pay full purchase price again later on to obtain a higher-end program, as you would if you were to purchase from one of our competitors, who do not even offer any high-end versions. No matter what your budget may be, we have a classifieds program designed for you.

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