Almond Classifieds Main Features (Lite Edition):

Main features are included in Lite, Pro and Enterprise Editions. PHP4/MySQL driven classified ads; Multiple categories for classified ads; Users can place ads with photos (via their own browser). If it is necessary, they can update photos; Browsing ads sorted by pages, displays latest ads first ; Preview photos thumbnails can be created by the script automatically; Powerful database searching capabilities that allow user to search for ads by keywords in the ad fields or by numerical range within fields such as age, price, size, etc. Optionally, if the same user (it means the same contact e-mail) sent more than one ad, on the second ad details page new link "Search all ads posted by this user" appears. By clicking on this link you can see all ads posted by the same user (with the same contact e-mail). Users can place ads to favorite list; Password protected editing, renewing, deleting of Ads by owners so that only original poster can modify or delete an ad ; Privacy Mail, which hides the e-mail addresses (optionally set up by admin.) ; Optionally redirect all privacy mail messages for Ad owners to admin. address, sending copies of privacy mails to admin.; Admin can easily get e-mails list of ad owners of each category for using in mail list programs Admin. can specify the time period before ads expire. Ability for admin. to modify easily or delete any ad via Web interface. Optional moderating of ad submissions by administrator: the administrator has the ability to look through the ads from a special form, analyze and edit ad information and make a decision about submitting the ads to the index or deleting the ads from that form. All this should be done before the ads appear in the index. In this case all edit changes made by ad owners also appear in the index after approval by admin; Admin can make some ads invisible for some period; Admin. can create as many ads categories as it is needed. For each category the set of ad fields (such as price, city, age, area, etc.) can be specified in different formats such as "text", "textarea", "select", "checkbox". For each ad field the search criteria - search for ads with keywords in the field or search for ads with field value in some numerical range ( for example, price field ) can be specified ; Admin. can set up ability for ad owners to load preview photos on the first page of the ad; Optionally, layers with ads detailed info can be displayed when a user places mouse over link "details" on the ads index page. Admin. can specify which ads fields will be displayed on ads layers. Layers effects are developed with usage JavaScript technology; Admin. can set the maximum size of the ad fields, max length of words in the fields, max. size and max. numbers of photos and media file in the ads; A lot of parameters for configuring Classified Ads features and layout;

Almond Classifieds (Pro Edition):

In Pro Edition all features of Lite Edition plus E-commerce features are already included. The following new features have been added to Pro Edition comparing with Lite one: Ads can be organized into effective multilevel categories structure placed on the top page: e.g. at first, user can choose a city (or other option specified by admin), then group of categories (e.g. personals, job, etc), then categories, then group of subcategories which will be opened immediately by clicking the link "more…" (e.g. age, goal, type of job), then subcategories (e.g. goal; sex, romance; type of job: wanted, offered). Quick access to the subcategories, search form, cities list on the top page is based on the dynamic html technologies and provides effective layout. On the ads index page the search form is hidden and it is opened immediately after clicking the link "search". Before browsing ads categories a user can choose a city and then browse or search ads only from that city. When a city is chosen all ads counters for categories/subcategories will be recalculated for the chosen city. Users can place multimedia files (.wav, .avi, .mp3 ...) for ads (via their own browser). If it is necessary, they can update these files ; Users can place comments with photos into ads; Users can browse top rated ads, top viewed ads, top contacted ads or top commented ads; Only one vote from one IP address can be included into rating; Event Calendard service allows to browse events in the order when the nearest events are displayed first. After the date when the events are not actual, they will be deleted. This service can be included into several categories. Optional two-level country/city selection. E.g. first a user can choose a country, then the list of cities of this country appears. Click here to try demo with two-level country/city selection option. Multilanguage mode can be set up; all words and comments for user's interface are placed into one file, so it is easy to translate it. Ads can be highlighted with on-line payment by ads owners; Highlighted ads are displayed at the top of index and they have a special expiration period; Admin can set up a special order for ads in the index pages; Protection for ads duplication. Optionally verification code can be applied to prevent using automated spamming programs for ads placing, sending privacy mails, membership subscribing. Optionally photos with too large sizes, e.g. from digital cameras, can be resized by the script to optimized sizes before saving in the database. Javascript checking ads submitting form before sending to the server. Bad words guard; Admin can set up list of spam and bad words, ads with such words will be placed to bulk folder in the web admin interface and they can be easily deleted. Contact e-mails for ads and IP addresses can also be placed into spam list. Admin can delete the list of spam ads using search by spam keywords, spammers e-mails or IP addresses. Optional membership activation by clicking on the link in the activation e-mail or fee based membership with on-line credit card processing (Membership Module is included). Users can place attachment file with any type from the list defined by admin e.g. .avi, .mpg, .txt, .doc, .xls, .zip. If users have large video files or archives, they can load them on popular file servers: Youtube.Com, Megaupload.Com, Rapidshare.Com or others, and then place URLs and titles for these files into their ad. Users can also embed video into ad e.g. from youtube.com (try this demo ad). Optionally only on highlighted ads large photos, attachments and videos can be displayed. Unless ad owner pays on-line for ad highlighting, only one small photo displayed on his ad. To see how this feature works try to post and highlight test ad at Demo 4. Options of search engine optimization are included into the script. Keywords and description of tags for each category can be specified. Keywords generated from ad title and other ads fields are included into meta tag for ads details pages. List of ads entries can be loaded from Excel tables (.csv files) via web admin interface; Two types of ads layout; Main HTML layout colors can be changed; Hints for fields on the ads submitting form; Admin can be notified about new ads or new members via e-mail into which edit/delete/moderate links are included. Optionally script can send expiration message to ads owners when their expired ads have been deleted. Membership Features:   Admin can set up password protection for the following services (members only service):      - placing new ads;      - viewing ads details pages;      - sending private mails. To get access to the following services users have to sign up and become members: Membership signing up can be free or fee based (with on-line credit card processing); More details about fee based sign up on-line Optional activating membership account by clicking on special link in welcome message that is sending to members' e-mail. ( this feature can be useful for verification members' e-mails when free membership is set up ); Admin has the ability to create/edit/delete manually membership accounts via web based interface; Admin can browse membership database and search members by special fields; Admin can also inactivate some members' accounts for some time; Special form fields for on-line membership subscribing can be set up; Admin has access to list of members' contact e-mails for using in main list software; In the membership database admin can use special links to browse all ads of each member; If some members place more than one ad, on the second page of of his ads a special link "browse all ads placed by member 'nickname' " appears; by clicking on this link user can browse all ads posted by this member to different categories; If sending private mails is password protected, then a mail receiver will be notified about nickname of a member who sent this message; For login/password verifications cookies are used; Forgot membership login/password function; login info will be sent to members' contact e-mail (if account with such contact e-mail exists in the membership database). Admin ca set up max number of ads allowed to place for each member per some time period per category. This feature is included to avoid ad spamming.

Enterprise Edition (Affiliate Network Classifieds):

This edition has all features of Pro Edition. The following new features have been added to Enterprise Edition comparing with Pro Edition:     This version allows to organize Affiliate Classifieds Network. Your affiliate partners can place a special client script on their servers. This script will send http request to your main classifieds script with ads database on your server. Users of your partners will use your classifieds service from partners sites only. In such a way you can organize classifieds network with many affiliate partners. The partners will be able to place their html header/footer with their ad banners, CSS style. This partnership will increase their site traffic by using your classifieds service. Such way can be more effective for some reasons comparing with starting their own classifieds with poor ads database. This partnership will give for you fast growth of ads database, ability to place your own ad banners which will be displayed on the sites of your affiliate partners. The main classifieds script with ads database is installed without CSS style, headers/footers (click here to see demo layout). Headers/footers, CSS style are added on the client script of affiliate servers (Demo). Optionally caching for most visited classifieds pages can be used on the affiliate sites to decrease web traffic from affiliate servers to main classifeds server. Optionally hidden verification can be set up. In this case users' activity on submitting forms is analysed without using graphical CAPTCHA method.  When user clicks on categories groups (e.g. Personals, Merchandise, Jobs ), then ads from all categories, which are included into this group, will be displayed in ads index   Templates allow to edit the html layout easily, e.g. at Layout 1    Layout 2    Layout 3 you can see different layouts for ads index.     Optional activating of ads by clicking on the activation link in the confirmation e-mail which was sent to ad owner after ad submitting.   Using AJAX.   Optionally Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technologies can be used. With Ajax web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. In the Enterprise Edition cities, highlighted and latest ads on the top page are being loaded in the background. AJAX dynamic navigation for categories and for choosing locations (city or country/city) can be set up optionally. On the ads details pages large photos can also be loaded in the background that provides faster photos change. If a user returns on the top page to change a category or location, then cities lists and ads will be loaded from Ajax cache that provides faster pages loading. Also some visual effects (Fade In/Out, Slide Down ...) for menu items, ads layers, photos galleries (on the ads details pages) are added. You can test Enterpirse Edition with Ajax features at the   Demo 1 and Demo 5.   Fast Search..   Fast search with keywords suggestions using AJAX technologies can be set up. Users can browse classifieds keywords in alphabet or popularity order. Users can input a list of keywords - specific keywords, locations, job types, companies names, etc. Country, city, street can be specified as a location. Even if a city is not included into predefined list, users can search ads with such a location via fast search form. When user chooses a category or city, then searching will be performed with these options. Also users can choose additional options for search which can be different for various categories (e.g. search ads with range of prices).   Random Ads. The list of random ads with photos can be displayed on the ads top, ads list and ads details pages. The list of random ads is changing periodically while a user stays on this page. Highlighted ads are placed on the first positions of this list. If a user chooses some category or location, then random ads will match this query. Random ads are displayed only if total number of ads exceeds some value. Try Demo 1 to see this feature.   Ads Photos Gallery. Users can click on the "Ads photos gallery" link to browse photos from ads which match their query. Try this demo gallery.   Search Engine Optimization (SEO) option allows to optimize and separate script URLs for two types - static and dynamic URLs. Static part for classifieds content is organized by the following directory structure: http://www.site.com/ct/category_name/page_number.html http://www.site.com/cities/city_name/ct/category_name/page_number.html http://www.site.com/ads/ads_number.html This structure allows to include cities and categories names into URLs paths. Services and search modes of the script work with dynamic URLs. Such URLs separation allows to create simple XML sitemaps (e.g. Google Sitemap) and files robots.txt for indexing only classifieds content by search engines without service and search pages. You can test static html URLs for classifieds content on Demo 6 which has SEO option enabled.     Affiliate Network Classifieds can also be organized in other way, when on the affiliate web sites only ads posted by users of these sites will be displayed. But on the main web site all ads from all affiliates will be shown. Such option can be useful when affiliate agents are competitors (e.g. realtors or sellers of the same goods). and want to show only their ads without competitors' ads on their web sites.   Please click here to load the simple client script for testing on your server to see how classifieds network works.     By purchasing package Almond Classifieds Network you will also receive Almond Classifieds (Pro edition) with all layouts. So, on your site you will be able to organize both - standard classifieds service with Pro Editon and Affiliate Classifieds Network with unlimited partners. These two services will use the same classifieds ads database.   All add-on modules (Ads Map, RSS, SEO, PayPal modules) are included into Enterprise Edition as a part of the script.

Ads Highlighting

Ads highlighting feature is included into Pro and Enterprise Editions. Users can highlight their ads by on-line payment via PayPal (with an additional PayPal module) or via other site with credit card processing. Highlighted ads will have new expiration time and will be marked. Admin can manage all highlighting options via web-interfaces, e.g. set up different highlighting levels for ads. Admin can set up the option that all photos and attachments will be displayed only on highlighted ads, on other ads only one small photo will be displayed. Enterprise Edition has the following additional highlighting options: Highlighted ads can be rotated at the top of ads index additionally to their place in the index; Admin can set up number of ad places at the top of ads index where highlighted ads will be rotated in the random order; Highlighted ads can optionally be displayed on the ads second pages; When a user clicks on categories groups (e.g. Personals, Merchandise, Jobs ), then highlighted ads from all categories, which are included into this group, will be rotated at the top of ads index; When a user chooses some location, then highlighted ads only from this location will be rotated at the top of the index; Vip status for ads can be set up by admin and it allows to display highlighted ads at the top of ads index in all categories with or without locations limits.

Ads Map Module:

Ads Map Module is an additional module for Almond Classifieds (Pro) script which allows to embed Google Maps into classifieds ads by using Google Maps API. Users can also find driving directions from their location to an ad address. You can try Ads Map features on our demos.  Ads Map Module is already included into Affiliate Classifieds Network Edition as a part of the script.

Using Google AdSense with Almond Classifieds

Google AdSense matches ads to your site's content, and you earn money whenever your visitors click on them. AdSense for content automatically crawls the content of your pages and delivers ads (you can choose both text or image ads) that are relevant to your audience and your site content—ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful. More info about AdSense   Referrals is a feature of AdSense that allows you to increase your revenue while increasing your users' awareness of a wide range of products and services. More info about Referrals   Meet a wide array of publishers who found success with Google AdSense - Success Stories   Almond Classifieds has three groups of pages which are very attractive for placing AdSense banners on them. These are top pages with categories list for each city, pages with list of ads in each category, ads second pages with ads details. Last two groups of pages have more specific themes of each category (e.g. real estate, auto, services...), so using AdSense for content will be very effective as only appropriate relevant banners will be shown. Using Affiliate Network Classifieds edition allows to place your AdSesne banners on affiliate sites and increase your income.   AdSense banners are placed on some of our classifieds demos.

PayPal Module for Almond Classifieds (Pro)

The Almond Classifieds can work with major on-line payment systems but for PayPal a special module was created. The Instant Payment Notification (IPN) PayPal Service is integrated into this module for fee based classifieds services processing (highlighting or activating ads, membership subscribing). There is an effective option which allows to give a progressive discount for placing multiple ads. This option is useful for the users or companies that post a lot of ads (e.g. real estate companies, recruitment or dating agencies, etc).  PayPal module is already included into Affiliate Classifieds Network Edition as a part of the script. You can test PayPal module for Almond Classifieds fee based services before purchase. Test PayPal module!

Almond Classifieds Component for Joomla! (commerce version 7.5)

Almond Classifieds can be installed as component for Joomla! content managment system (CMS). The native component for Joomla! 1.5 or Joomla! 1.0 can be chosen. This component includes all main features of Pro and Enterprise Editions except affiliate features. Posting ads, viewing ads details, sending privacy mails can be password protected optionally. Static URLs for classifieds content can be set up optionally for search engines optimization (SEO). Login info of Joomla! registered users can be used for access to these protected areas. Optionally Ajax technologies can be used (see on the Demo). So, the same users database can be used for classifieds and for other Joomla components e.g. forums, articles, directories. Ads Map, PayPal and RSS modules described above can be used additionally. The advantage of this component is that it can be used with many other free and commerce Joomla! components. You can find some of them at extensions.joomla.org.   Upgrade package for Almond Classifieds (Joomla Component, version 7.5) with add-on modules ( RSS, Google Map, PayPal). can be installed additionally. More info about Almond Classifieds for Joomla! Demo of Almond Classifieds for Joomla! Load Almond Classifieds for Joomla! (free version 5.4 )

WAP Edition

Wap Edition has simplified layout for user's interface which is friendly for mobile phones with WAP/GPRS, PDA.... This layout is also well viewable on popular browsers - IE, Mozilla, Firefox... This script can use the same ads database as Pro and Enterprise editions and can be installed as an additional classifieds service for WAP browsers. E.g. try URL almondsoft.com/wrd from your browser with high resolution (IE, Mozilla, Firefox..) and then enter this URL in your mobile phone or PDA with Wap browser. You will receive different layouts for different types of browsers (e.g. for IE and WAP). The ability to choose city or country/city and Spam Guard are included, other features are similiar to Lite Edition and described in 'Main Features' area above.

Search Engine Optimizing (SEO) Module for Almond Classifieds (Pro Edition).

Many search engines recommend to create the directories with static pages which are the copies for dynamic pages generated by PHP scripts. E.g. on the page: How can I create a Google-friendly site? it is written:   "Consider creating static copies of dynamic pages. Although the Google index includes dynamic pages, they comprise a small portion of our index. If you suspect that your dynamically generated pages (such as URLs containing question marks) are causing problems for our crawler, you might create static copies of these pages..." More info can be found at the page: Does Google index dynamic pages? Other search engines have similiar recommendations. SEO module for Almond Classifieds allows to generate static classifieds pages including latest ads. These static pages can be displayed on different sites simultaneously. This module works in a special directory where URLs for categories indexes and ads details pages are displayed as static pages, e.g. http://www.almondsoft.com/sch/ctg/manw.html Other links on these pages, e.g. for search or submitting forms, etc. are directed to PHP scripts. This module can work with Pro Editions. Your web server should allow to use .htaccess file in the html directories. You can test static html classifieds index for our classifieds demos at this demo.  SEO module is already included into Affiliate Classifieds Network Edition as a part of the script.

RSS Module for Almond Classifieds.

This module allows to set up RSS(2.0) feed for classifieds ads. Users can read the latest ads via rss readers. Affiliate partners can place latest ads headlines on their sites via any RSS aggregator. RSS link on the top page outputs the latest ads of all categories, if some city is chosen, then ads only from this city will be included into feed. RSS link on the categories index pages outputs the latest ads for these categories. Small resized ads photos are included into RSS items. RSS module can work with Pro and Enterprise Editions. On our demos RSS feeds are included in the Demo 2 (Pro Edition) and Demo 2, Demo 3 (Enterprise Edition).  RSS module is already included into Affiliate Classifieds Network Edition as a part of the script. Ads Line Scrolling Module for Almond Classifieds:   This module is also included into RSS package and allows to scroll the line with the latest ads on the top page of Almond Classifieds. This feature is included into Demo 2 (Enterprise Edition).

Requirements:

All Almond Classifieds scripts are open and not encrypted, so webmasters have full access to all scripts files. The followings are required: Webhost server running a Unix operating system; PHP(version 4 or higher) and MySQL, properly configured and installed;

Prices, Order On-Line:

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