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for the next time you need to sell or find anything....
Adding The Fire Island Classifieds to Your Website.
Benefits and Features.
Every website today is looking for a way to attract and retain
visitors. The Fire Island Classifieds empowers your
website with effective tools to attract and retain more visitors. With
The Fire Island Classifieds, you can build and brand your
own classifieds site customized to the unique needs of your constituent
whether it's for consumers or other businesses free of cost.
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Please note: The webmaster of The Fire Island Classifieds
retains the right to cancel an affiliate for any reason or no reason at
all at any time with or without notification at the sole discretion of
The Fire Island Classifieds.
The Fire Island Classifieds Affiliate Program benefits include:
- Fosters greater interaction and community among your website
visitors.
- Promotes repeat visitors and retention of visitors by developing
greater stickiness and loyalty to your web site.
- Facilitates community-developed content in a timely and
automated way.
- Adds a sense of fun and excitement!
The Affiliated Fire Island Classifieds.....
- Provides a forum for connecting with others with common Fire
Island interests through your website.
- The Fire Island Classifieds builds a trusted space
for communications, exchanges, and transactions.
- The Fire Island Classifieds serves a utilitarian
function for finding real estate, merchandise, services, Fire Island
employment, and people.
- The Fire Island Classifieds Affiliate Program -
Complete Summary:
- Fire Island Classifieds allows the set up of
"affiliate" web sites that can (optional) maintain the "look and
feel" of their own web sites.
- The online Affiliates Manager allows the administrator to easily
add, modify, or delete affiliate web sites online.
- No cost to the affiliate. Requires a link to
http://www.FireIslandClassifieds.com from a reasonably prominent
page.
- Affiliates have the option of allowing other web sites to sign
up as affiliates online through a "Join Our Affiliate Program" link.
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Affiliate Setup Management:
- Sophisticated Fire Island Classifieds Affiliate
interface that is intuitive and easy to use.
- Separate default classified ads database sections for
Announcements, Automobiles, Business Opportunities & Services,
Collectibles, Computers, Employment, General Merchandise, Personals,
Real Estate, and Rentals & Roommates, each with separate database
fields optimized for these categories. Some categories may have been
removed and are not available.
- Sophisticated navigation bar includes navigation arrows and
buttons below search results to help users quickly jump to different
sections of their search results without having to keep hitting the
"Next" button.
- Navigation bar at top of pages that indicates current section
and category, with links back to the affiliates (your) overall site
home page and
http://www.FireIslandClassifieds.com home .
- Includes "Go Back" buttons on certain pages, such as error
message pages.
- Displays "New" text or graphic next to sections and categories
in which new ads have been posted since this user's last visit.
- "Tell Your Friends" option that allows The Fire Island
Classifieds users to e-mail their friends about your
classifieds section right from an online form. It's a great way to
help build traffic to your site.
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Feature Summary:
The following Fire Island Classifieds features could
benefit you or your website:
Customization:
- The Fire Island Classifieds System allows
affiliates the ability (optional) to create and modify their own
Fire Island Classifieds affiliate site online.
- Ad Display Options and Features
- The Fire Island Classifieds can set variables for
whether to limit users' ad renewals, the maximum number of renewals
allowed.
- The Fire Island Classifieds allows users to choose
from varying lengths of time that their ads remain posted on the
system.
- Overall The Fire Island Classifieds front page
displays the number of ads in each section next to its listing.
- Display of expiration dates within ads displayed using the long
format.
- Displays photos, sound files, and even video clips in ads.
- Users of The Fire Island Classifieds can upload
multiple photos to each ad.
- Users can modify or delete their multimedia uploads for their
ads.
- Users can specify automatic generation of a map for their ads in
certain sections.
- Support for uploads by users of multimedia files to their ads,
including photos, sound, and video clips.
- Preview feature that allows users to preview their ad before it
is posted.
- Initial modification and deletion pages allow user to enter
specific ad number to be modified or deleted, with options of
viewing all ads posted by that user or using the advanced search
form to search for a specific ad.
- Our exclusive Checklist feature allows users to mark certain ads
for future viewing. When they come back in the future and click on
"My Checklist", the program will display all of their check-listed
ads. We call this "the digital equivalent of circling ads in the
newspaper."
- Popup mortgage calculator in the real estate sections
automatically fill in the financial information relevant to this
particular ad.
- Links to other ads posted by a particular user in either a
particular section or in all sections.
- Counters on the ads for how many times the ad has been viewed
and how many times the ad has been replied to.
- Alert The Fire Island Classifieds Admin link from
each ad so that users can alert the administrator about ads that are
objectionable or otherwise may be in violation of system policies.
- Links within each ad for modifying or deleting the ad.
- Ability to scale thumbnails to maintain proportions of original
graphic, and the option of having the program auto scale the
thumbnails or allowing the admin set the percentage in the System
Configuration utility.
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Expiration of Fire Island Classifieds Ads:
- User can select from administrator-defined options for number of
days before ads expire.
- Optional notification by e-mail to users whose ads are about to
expire. Optional purging of ads that have expired.
Auto-Notify Features:
- An Fire Island Classifieds exclusive new
Auto-Notify feature that lets users set up their own personal search
agent that will automatically e-mail them periodically with the new
ads that match the database search criteria that they specified when
they set up their agent. Their search criteria can include not only
keywords, but also specific categories, features, or geographical
locations, date ranges, price ranges, or any other database
criteria. They can even choose to be notified only of new ads with
photos, sound clips, and/or video clips.
- Users can choose how long their agent will last (from options
defined by the admin) before it is automatically purged by the
system.
- Users can set up as many search agents as they want for each
section and throughout the classifieds.
- "Instant Auto-Notify" option that causes program to run the
Auto-Notify program for each new ad immediately after that ad is
posted. Subscribers receive notification immediately after the ad
has been posted.
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Private Messaging Features:
- The Personal Inbox feature functions as a full-strength,
private, and secure messaging center. When someone replies to a
Fire Island Classifieds ad, the poster is notified that
they have a reply and is given a URL where they can retrieve it. The
e-mail address of the person who replied is not revealed. When the
original poster retrieves the reply, he or she has the option of
sending a reply back, again without revealing his or her e-mail
address. That way, the parties can send messages back and forth
through this system without revealing their e-mail addresses or
other personal information until they feel comfortable in doing so.
Searching the Fire Island Classifieds:
- Optimized search engine for seven different types of searches:
browsing, keyword searches, category searches, retrieval of a
specific ad by its database ID number, retrieval of all of a
specific user's ads, retrieval of one specific ad for modification,
and full database power searches.
- Powerful database searching capabilities that allow users to
search for ads by many different fields and even by discrete ranges
within fields, such as price ranges or date ranges.
- Set up to allow users to select more than one item for certain
items during searches (such as city, etc.) using new OR logic.
- Search options for searching by keyword, by ads posted within
the last x days, or by all ads. Also contains user-friendly Boolean
logic search options on the keyword search form.
- Alphabetical, numeric, or date sorting on any field, as well as
reverse sorting, case sensitive, and exact match options.
- Contains a powerful sorting routine that is sophisticated enough
to properly recognize various inputs that users may use (for
example, it understands that $40k means $40,000).
- Popup calendar and buttons to activate this in the date range
searching section of the Advanced Search Form.
- Users can decide how search results should be sorted through a
menu choice on the search form (administrator can also set default).
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User Registration on Fire Island Classifieds:
- Simple user name and password registration.
- Can optionally send an automatic e-mail reply to users who
register for an account. The message welcomes them and gives them
their username and password. This might also encourage users who
register but don't immediately post an ad to come back later and
post their ad.
- Logs all user actions, including posting, modifying, or deleting
ads.
- "Forgot Your Username" routine e-mails usernames for a
particular e-mail address to that address. Users who have forgotten
their user name can search for it using their e-mail address.
- Pop-ups alert users who have not filled in all required fields
on the registration form.
- Users can optionally have the system remember their logon
username and password during future sessions through the usage of
cookies.
- Users can update their registration information at any time.
- Fire Island Classifieds can optionally allow only
registered users to access any portion of the Fire Island
Classifieds.
- A Personal Inbox feature that allows users to post personal ads
without having to reveal their e-mail addresses. Users respond to
these ads through a form.
- Users can send an ad to a friend.
- Users who have forgotten their user name can search for it using
their e-mail address.
- Users can search for ads by many different fields and even by
discrete ranges within fields, such as price ranges or date ranges.
- Users can modify or delete their own ads at any time. When
modifying an ad, the current ad's information is automatically
inserted in the modification form.
- Users have option of whether to display their street address and
telephone number in their ads. Users have the option of searching
only for ads with photos, sound clips, or video clips.
- Users who forget their passwords can search for them based on
their username and have the password e-mailed to them.
- Users can renew their ads based on pre-defined options.
- Users can choose from varying lengths of time that their ads
remain posted on the system.
E-mail Features:
- Allows users to e-mail an ad to a friend.
Anti-Spamming:
- Includes Spam Guard, which allows the Fire Island
Classifieds to block specific users from posting ads based
on their usernames or to block access based on partial or full IP
addresses.
- Ability to block spammers by blocking specific company names,
telephone numbers, or e-mail addresses. The webmaster will take
serious action at his or her discretion should a user violate
spamming and generally accepted good taste rules with or without
notice to the offender and block that person from access.
- Duplicate checking. This causes the Fire Island
Classifieds to check for duplicate ads when someone is
posting a new ad and give them an error message if it finds a
duplicate ad. This is useful for blocking spammers and those users
who seem to like to hit the Submit button multiple times.
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Security:
- Encryption based authentication for the administrator.
- Automatically sends e-mail replies to users who post ads in
order to validate ads.
- Notification by e-mail to the administrator when users post,
modify, or delete ads, when they register, and when old ads are
purged.
- Allows the administrator to easily modify or delete any ad at
any time from the web interface (you can also delete multiple ads at
a time).
- Fire Island Classifieds attempts strip out "bad
words" as defined by the Fire Island Classifieds. No
guarantees can be made that we catch all bad words or camouflaged
bad words. The webmaster will take serious action at his or her
discretion should a user violate spamming and generally accepted
good taste rules with or without notice to the offender and block
that person from access.
- Verifies e-mail addresses and URLs entered by users.
- Checks to make sure that users entered contact information.
Privacy Policy and Terms of Use pages:
- Sophisticated Help section that includes intuitive and
context-sensitive popup Help windows. In many parts of the
Fire Island Classifieds, these windows will automatically
display the help topic relevant to the action that the user is
performing.
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The Fire Island Classifieds!
for the next time you need to sell or find anything....
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