I likes the locked icon ? saves people trying to click or add to it and getting frustrated ? to remove the icon or words would be easy enough to do through the admin or ftp if they wanted to do that / for your number 1 or 2 options both would take a few seconds to do. Just look for the phrase in languages and edit or delete the words from that or replace the locked icon with a clear one.Originally Posted by Errol
I suggest that for every page of each category in the metadescription should be added something like Page 2 or index 2. This would avoid duplicate metadecriptions for all additional pages of one category. I notice all classifieds sites have this and also other classifieds scripts have it. Is something basic.
I Have some suggestions to submit to the table please.
› I would like an option in saved search settings that allows me to set a renew date similar to a listing, for example I may set it to 365 days and the user would be sent a normal reminder notice where they would need to renew the saved search or it would become inactive. * This would eliminate people wandering of into cyberspace / changing or deleting email addresses and having the system clogged up with requests that nobody is getting anymore.
+ In addition while on saved search there is a admin page that allows you to delete saved searches (where it would show the status from above / active / paused or expired), I would very much like to add the ability to add a user to that page and select the saved search option required.
› In the admin user panel when you bring up the users details it tells you the number of listing (+link) that they have, but it does not tell you the number of ads they have, number of saved searches or number of messages. These things will be handy in conjunction with the last logged in date as that will be used to purge users who have long gone but we would need to see that have no ads running or any current saved searches in place etc.
› In the admin overview panel you have stats and links, but you have some plug-ins such as your reported listings etc, where you need to dive into the pluggin to see any numbers, these pluggins should be made to feed those stats to the overview panel, so that admin can overview and administer the whole site from one central location.
› A listing field for time similar to the dates option Ex. Time = 8.35 AM or Times = 9.00 AM - 5.30 PM
all for now.
Last edited by Pete Young; October 16, 2014 at 01:24 AM.
I would like to see in version 5 a proper image system that creates, from the uploaded image, different sizes. 100% true as set up in admin area.
Right now, the script resize the image into 2 sizes 640x480px and 190x131px - as you can see in you demo.
This is wrong because you use the 640x480px and show it in listing details page as main image but at 298x278x and the 190x131px you use it for grid/list view mode (with a actual size of 188x128px) and in image gallery thumbnails where is shown actualy as 58x58px. So in no area you use the real images.Instead you shrink them which blurs out the images and in addition, we serve bigger images that are not used, making the pages to load slower.
Look at the systems implemented in ilance, opencart, magento and other scripts and you will see that they use a original big image just for 100% view of the image in gallery and in addition they create 3-4 types of smaller images that corespond 100% to the image sizes used in areas like grid/list, main image, thumbnails image and so on.
Hello Petrache Nicolae,
We will think about changes in image uploader. At the moment we discuss changes for dealers photo upload and crop which might become a very useful thing.
About dimensions - you can set any sizes for your images and system will resize images to that. The problem is that users upload different images which are not necessarily have big size and quality and this may cause problems with thumbnails on the website.
About dimensions, you missed the whole idea even if i try to explain it as best as i can. Please check yourself what system is used by the most important players in the world regarding this and will talk again after. This system is used by many years in magento and others - check http://go.magento.com/support/kb/ent...atalog-images/
Or, do some math yourself. Let's say that i have set up the website to allow images of 3000x2000px (wich is around 4mb each), and i allow 10 images per listing. That will mean that for a single listing the listing details page will load 40 mb to show 10 images at 3000x2000px shrinken artificial into 298x278px (which is the main image size) when it should have 10 resized images at 298x278px wich would take less than 1 mb? Multiply those scores by 1000 ads or 10.000 ads which is quite a small number for a classifieds website and maybe you will understand now the problem. Right now your script waste huge traffic and server resources (cpu, ram, space) because this simple flow.
You complain about "users upload different images which are not necessarily have big size and quality and this may cause problems with thumbnails on the website"
Exactly how is this a problem? I doubt that any user will bother to load a image smaller than 298x278px which is the main image size. And even if that will happen, show the small image at 100%(it's original size), in the middle of the white image container. Image resize up or down must not take place because it blures out the images.
To me, a classified script should behave the same way a online show behaves because both have something important in common. A huge number of listings. So you can easy compare your script to any major ecommerce script like magento, opencart, prestashop and other to see what is used and why is used.
Last edited by Petrache Nicolae; October 22, 2014 at 07:37 AM.
Well, actually at the moment we dont keep original images if there is no 'crop by user' function enabled. When you upload a picture the system resizes it to dimensions you've set in Admin Panel.
In version 4.4 we will be always keeping an original image cause the system needs it for watermark and dimensions changes. If the picture is too big it will be resized x2 so if the image should be 640*480 but user uploads 2000*3000 picture the system will resize it to 1280*860px.
This is actually good idea. I'll add it into the list to discuss
Another thing that i would like to see is the same thing we see in flatty themes in search bar. More precise, show the name of each field inside the text/input boxes, text/hint that hides the moment you start typing. That would make a much cleaner page.
Just to add to this an image rotate option would be good
Another request
- short url for listing. www.domain.com/listingname Most of the successful classified sites have this kind of system Imagine i have 3 subcategories for one category so the listing will look like domain.com/listing-type/category/subcategory1/subcategory2/subcategory3/listing-name Surely this will not be good for SEO
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