Classified Ads on Your Website

One of the best features you can offer your community is free access to a Classified Advertisements page on your website.

Newspapers commonly charge $40.00 or more for a small-print advertisement which is lost in a sea of similar ads. Now you can provide an alternative.

Promote this facility and your web site is sure to increase in popularity - and the more use your ads page gets, the more people will return again and again.

Imagine the impact on your site if it became known as the place for your city to advertise up-coming Saturday morning Garage Sales, or second hand cars, or community events - clubs, schools churches and non-profit organisations will love your site.

“I used to use an add-on service to give me a similar facility, but the ads page didn't match the look of my site, and it carried advertising for hosting and service providers which I couldn't control.  Your package solved all these problems for me.”

“This is the script I was looking for.  I wanted a script which presents all the ads on one page.  This is the first one I've found which does so.”

This script gives you a completely self contained Classified Ads facility which you can customise to suit your web site.

You will receive

• the Perl script
• all HTML and other files
• an Ebook with step-by-step instructions to install and modify the script.

You will never find a professionally written Perl script which is simpler to install and use.

You can view a site which is using this script to power their classified ads page by clicking here. This will open a new window, so this page will remain open.

This isn't just a Perl script, but a complete package of files and a comprehensive manual on using this script.

The ebook manual (illustration on left) is very clear and uses simple language, with lots of illustrations, to show you how to install the script on your web site.

The accompanying guide even tells you where to get free FTP (File Transfer) software should you need it, and helps you install and use it. Many illustrations help explain the whole process clearly and simply.

You may not need to alter the CGI script at all to get it working on your web hosts server. If you do, however, you may need to alter only one or two lines - and the manual explains how to do this.

Of course, if you want, you may alter the script quite a lot, so that it works and looks exactly right for your web site. Again, the manual gives clear instructions for customizing the script to suit.

If you've had trouble installing CGI scripts before, we're certain you'll find success this time.

You don't even need to have any knowledge of the Perl programming language to install this script. It's easy - just follow the step-by-step instructions.

Open up todays newspaper, and look at the classifieds section. See how many people were prepared to pay to tell the community something. Don't you think they'd all jump at the chance to advertise it for free on your web site?

BONUS!

• Invisible Hit Counter CGI Perl script. Count hits for every page in your site, display the results on a private page for your eyes only. Comes with all files and an ebook manual. Clear step-by-step explanations.
  
  
• Create your own custom 404 error page to handle errors gracefully and help users find the information they are looking for. Full instructions are included with the "Classified Ads On Your Website" manual.
  
  
• Excluding the Search Engines. There are some web pages which you don't want appearing on Search Engines' listings — products you want to sell, password-protected members pages, private administration pages, etc. Here is two ways to exclude these pages from Search Engines' inspections — meta-tags and “robots.txt” files.

You will need:

• a cgi-bin. (This is a feature provided by your web host. If you're not sure whether you have this feature or not, contact your host for more information.)
• access to Perl on your host's server.
• A Windows 95 or later computer. The manual comes as an executable file (an ebook) which requires Internet Explorer.
• An unzipping utility such as WinZip. The files are downloadable as a .zip file.

and make your site professional in presentation
and features for just $6.95.

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PO Box 2542 Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia.