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07-30-2007, 01:44 PM
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| | New Sell feature test. SteveColes President
Treasurer Name: Steve City: Apex State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 64
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 07-30-2007, 01:44 PM
A while ago I mentioned some new software that we would be installing for selling instead of using the forums. Well a test has been installed and we would like you to use it for all your new offers to sell.
There is only one ad in it, but it is fake. Please DO NOT add any more fake ads, just real ones. We need to see how this works in real situations.
If this test works well, we will switch to it for almost all our buy and sell needs and the forums that used to support that will disappear.
Please give as much feedback in this thread as you can and please do give critical feedback
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07-31-2007, 12:06 AM
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Name: jeff... City: Stovall State: NC County: Granville Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Steve quick question for the pictures is there a way to use pictures you have already uploaded to photo album or must you upload a picture to the new for sale area?
Thanks
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07-31-2007, 12:15 AM
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#17 | | Webmaster
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Name: DaveO City: Clayton State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 38 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Jeff, I would think that you should be able to use pictures already in your albums, like you did when you offered me up for sale  . I wanted to find out for sure, but there is something not going right with the ad creation process..I couldn't get past step 2 
Dave 
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Honestly Honey, that will cost around $100 $150 $200, and I need a few more tools. 
Heard from a client..."If I had your tools and experience...I could do it myself" 
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss
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07-31-2007, 07:50 AM
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Name: Cathy City: Forest City State: NC County: Rutherford Join Date: Oct 2005 Age: 53 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by nelsone  Is this to be limited to woodworking items? If not, I have a car and Panther PSL's I will add to this and get you a couple real ads!
Ed If it is related to wwing things only I would suggest labeling it as such. Also if only members can post ads - that needs to be specified in the heading of the "box". Also, is offering a class an ad?
I don't really like it showing up on the home page after all the discussion that we don't accept ads. I would rather see a thread pointing folks to the corect listing in a forum. It also clutters up the home page. Just my $.02 worth
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07-31-2007, 08:33 AM
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#19 | | President
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Name: Steve City: Apex State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 64 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by nelsone Is this to be limited to woodworking items? If not, I have a car and Panther PSL's I will add to this and get you a couple real ads!
Ed It is just like the buy and sell forums, only woodworking related items
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07-31-2007, 08:33 AM
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#20 | | President
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Name: Steve City: Apex State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 64 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by jeff... Steve quick question for the pictures is there a way to use pictures you have already uploaded to photo album or must you upload a picture to the new for sale area?
Thanks I'm not sure, let me check
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07-31-2007, 08:46 AM
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#21 | | President
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Name: Steve City: Apex State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 64 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by cskipper If it is related to wwing things only I would suggest labeling it as such. Also if only members can post ads - that needs to be specified in the heading of the "box". Also, is offering a class an ad?
I don't really like it showing up on the home page after all the discussion that we don't accept ads. I would rather see a thread pointing folks to the corect listing in a forum. It also clutters up the home page. Just my $.02 worth Every post in the Buy and sell forum was an ad. I am trying to better organize them so that people can get better response and so that the forums themselves are less cluttered. Does this software do that? I don't know, that is what I am trying to find out 
I put the 12 most recent ads on the home page, the forum home page and the newposts page to hopefully solve another problem. Most people use the Home Page "Recent Threads" and/or the new posts page to find out about new posts. So that was where they also found about new items for sale. But if the for sale items are in this new software, they would no longer show up that way. So the Recents Ads block is an attempt to solve that issue. 
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07-31-2007, 12:23 PM
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Name: barry City: Louisburg State: NC County: Franklin Join Date: Jan 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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07-31-2007, 12:36 PM
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#23 | | Webmaster
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Name: DaveO City: Clayton State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 38 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by bman
Click on For Sale in the upper blue menu and that will take you to the page. Then in the upper right hand corner is Place an Ad, and that is where you will go to place an Ad.
Also if you click on the picture ad in the right hand column it will take you to the details of the ad.
I think that this is still all in the testing phases so somethings might not work as they should. I encountered problems trying to place an ad last night. It could have been operator error...that's often my problem 
It seems to be functioning properly today!!!!
Dave
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Honestly Honey, that will cost around $100 $150 $200, and I need a few more tools.
Heard from a client..."If I had your tools and experience...I could do it myself"
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss
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07-31-2007, 12:48 PM
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Name: barry City: Louisburg State: NC County: Franklin Join Date: Jan 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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thanks dave
Now i feel really dumb can't see the forest for all the trees | |
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07-31-2007, 12:49 PM
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#25 | | Webmaster
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Name: DaveO City: Clayton State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 38 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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It took me a while to find it  too
Dave
__________________ Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
Honestly Honey, that will cost around $100 $150 $200, and I need a few more tools.
Heard from a client..."If I had your tools and experience...I could do it myself"
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss
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07-31-2007, 02:34 PM
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#26 | | President
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Name: Steve City: Apex State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 64 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by bman thanks dave
Now i feel really dumb can't see the forest for all the trees You shouldn't. While PhotoPosr generally produce reasonably good software (features and robustness), they are really lacking in the default "user friendly" department. Their position is that it is up to website to modify it. Whereas vbulletin is very useable out of the "box".
I'm in the position that I only want to do the minimum mods on Photo Classifieds until we have a better idea if we are actually going to use it long term.
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07-31-2007, 02:40 PM
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#27 | | President
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Name: Steve City: Apex State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 64 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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No More Fake Ads.
Now it is time to see if it works for real. So if you have anything to sell, please use this new stuff instead of the forums.
Thanks
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07-31-2007, 03:36 PM
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#28 | | Moderator
Name: Mike Hall City: Indian Trail State: NC County: Union Join Date: Feb 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I see several ads, but no pics. Are there supposed to be pics with these ads?
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07-31-2007, 03:46 PM
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#29 | | Director
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Name: Roger City: Durham State: NC County: Durham Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 62 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by hpm67 I see several ads, but no pics. Are there supposed to be pics with these ads? Mike, one has to upload pix . . . same way you do for Photo Gallery. So, if ad does not have a pix it is because none was uploaded. When I did a fake ad yesterday, there was not a "link" feature available to link a photo in gallery. Since this is still in the test mode, I'm not sure whether Steve will or can implement that.
HTH,
Roger
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07-31-2007, 03:53 PM
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#30 | | Moderator
Name: Mike Hall City: Indian Trail State: NC County: Union Join Date: Feb 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by sapwood Mike, one has to upload pix . . . same way you do for Photo Gallery. So, if ad does not have a pix it is because none was uploaded. When I did a fake ad yesterday, there was not a "link" feature available to link a photo in gallery. Since this is still in the test mode, I'm not sure whether Steve will or can implement that.
HTH,
Roger I understand. I would almost require a photo. I personally skip over most ads of any form without a picture.
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