The Second Classified Media Innovation Award

The second Classified Media Innovation Award will be organized by ICMA. The winner will be selected from the proposals received. All classified media companies are allowed to participate, whether ICMA members or not.

The 2011 Award will be announced at the ICMA Conference Awards Ceremony on Friday 29 April, in Nice, France. The winners will be decided by the ICMA Committee and the Top 5 shortlisted companies may be invited to present their innovation in the conference. More about 2011 ICMA Classified Media Innovation Award.

Conference "Classifieds: RECIPES FOR SUCCESS"

Classifieds Conference "Classifieds: RECIPES FOR SUCCESS" will take place 27-30 April 2011 at Nice, France.

The conference programme will cover the four main "recipes" for success - money, content, technology and content.

ICMA members and delegates benefit from the sharing of invaluable information with the worldwide community of classified media professionals. Read more about the Conference.

Introduction to HTTP

The HTTP protocol first appeared in yearly 90’s as a solution for document management in CERN, a huge European research center. They needed to maintain and manage a large number of scientific documents, each having many links to other documents (think of Wikipedia).

HTTP is a protocol used by hundreds of millions of people every day for all sorts of activities: getting news, posting news, sharing photos, socializing, educating themselves, educating others, reading, and sending mail, and relaxing. HTTP is the Internet’s glue, which connects distributed web pages and WWW users. This article is quick and dirty explanation of how it actually works.

iAuto Classified Software Version 5.2 Released

A week before Christmas is marked with a new release of the classified solutions from WorksForWeb, namely, iAuto Classified Software Version 5.2. The new 5.2 version contains the profound changes in software template system and performance as well as more then 50 enhancements and bugfixes. Just few of them:

• Template System Globally Modified
• Listing URL SEO Data Added
• Listing Caption Modified
• Picture Carousel Added
• Image Slideshow Updated
• Listing Comparison Improved
• and more minor enhancements and improvements.

Try the new version 5.2 on the online demo:

• Live Auto Classified Software Demo

iAuto changelog is also available for your review.

You are welcome to contact, email or chat with our Sales Team. Please send your requests to our Sales Team. We'll be happy to address your inquiries.

We Are 5 Years Old!

December 5, 2010 WorksForWeb holds the Fifth Anniversary of the Foundation.

Dear customers, we really appreciate the years of work and the trust you have in us!

Best Regards,
WorksForWeb

Do’s and Don’ts in Formulating Customization Requests

Useful tips to get an accurate, timely and realistic quote for your auto classified script customization project. Before sending in your customization request, review it to make sure that:

• It has all the information we may need for the quote;
• This information is presented in an easy-to-use manner;
• Any supporting documents, screenshots, descriptions are included;
• You are available to provide additional explanation if we need any.

Read this article to submit a brilliant customization request.

iAuto Auto Classified Software Features: Password Recovery

WorksForWeb in all its classified scripts including iAuto Auto Classified Software has a very helpful feature to recover forgotten passwords.

"Password Recovery" feature is automated and any admin action is not required.

iAuto Auto Classified Software Version 5.1 Released

WorksForWeb hereby announces a new version release for iAuto Vehicle Classified Software 5.1. Version 5.1 contains a number of new features along with dozens of improvements and enhancements.

What’s new?

• Listing Comments - visitors can add comments to listings
• Report Improper Content - visitors can inform administrator about improper content in comments or listing details
• New System of JPEG Image Quality Settings – administrator can set the image quality for listings
• Decimal data type was added to the fields with monetary values
• IP Blocklist Manager – administrator can block IP or IP range. List of IP/ IP range can be exported or imported
• Improved Listing Import – listings from several categories can be imported in the same file
• and more minor enhancements and improvements.

Find more details about iAuto Vehicle Classified Software version 5.1 release.

You are welcome to contact, email or chat with our Sales Team. Please send your requests to sales@iautosoftware.com respectively, or submit a new ticket. We'll be happy to address your inquiries.

iAuto Auto Classified Software Features: Google Maps in Listing Details

iAuto Auto Classified Software offers option to display listing address/zip on the built-in Google Map. Users specify Zip Code, Address, City and State while adding ads and the location is displayed in the Google Maps section at the listing details page.

"Google Maps" integrated into a listing gives users a visual, intuitive way to find the seller’s location (or property location).

iAuto Auto Classified Software Features: Mark Listing as Sold

iAuto Auto Classified Software gives a possibility to mark listings as sold. Items that are already sold will be clearly identifiable.

"Mark Listings as Sold" feature can be a great marketing anchor to display the effectiveness of the advertising at the particular iAuto-based website, and attract new users. This practice stimulates new users to register and add their listings as they see the successful results achieved by the listings marked with "SOLD" sign.

iAuto Auto Classified Software Features: Featured Listings on the Front Page

iAuto Auto Classified Software gives a wonderful additional opportunity to promote listings at a iAuto-based classified website. Listings will appear in a special “Featured Ads” section.

Featured ads can be displayed in different ways. By default this section is displayed at the main page of the site where it gets the maximum exposure to the prospect buyers.

New Version 5.0.2 of iAuto Classified Software Available

WorksForWeb releases a new minor release of iAuto 5.0.2.

We strive for improving usability and stability of our classified scripts and do our best to make them bug-free. A new version contains a number of improvements and bugfixes for the most recent major release. View Demo versions of iAuto Auto Classified Software.

A detailed list of improvements and bug fixes for the latest major release is available in iAuto Vehicle Classified Software Changelog.

New customers: We will be happy to provide additional information about our products. Please send your requests to sales@iautosoftware.com, or submit a new ticket. We look forward to your becoming our new customers.

Existing customers: For updates, patches and upgrades please contact our Support Team by sending your email to support@iautosoftware.com, or submit a new ticket.

New Stable Version 5.0.1 of iAuto Classified Software Available

WorksForWeb presents a new minor release of iAuto 5.0.1

A new version contains a number of enhancements, improvements and bugfixes for the most recent major release. View Demo versions of iAuto Auto Classified Software.

A detailed list of enhancements, improvements and bug fixes for the latest major release is available in iAuto Vehicle Classified Software Changelog.

New customers: We will be happy to provide additional information about our products. Please send your requests to sales@iautosoftware.com, or submit a new ticket. We look forward to your becoming our new customers.

Existing customers: For updates, patches and upgrades please contact our Support Team by sending your email to support@iautosoftware.com, or submit a new ticket.

iAuto Vehicle Classified Software V5.0 Released

WorksForWeb hereby announces a new version release for iAuto Vehicle Classified Software 5.0. The 5-th version contains the profound changes in software speed and performance as well as a number of new features long awaited by existing customers and the general public.

What’s new?

• A considerable performance acceleration: significant improvements in speed and shrinking page load time
• New template system with inheritance
• Extended browsing opportunities
• and more then 60 minor enhancements and bugfixes.

Find more details about iAuto Vehicle Classified Software v5.0 release.

You are welcome to contact, email or chat with our Sales Team. Please send your requests to sales@iautosoftware.com respectively, or submit a new ticket. We'll be happy to address your inquiries.

iAuto Website Classified Software Features: CAPTCHA for Forms

Spammers can use automated tools to post many unwanted messages very quickly. To protect a website from their attacks, WorksForWeb added CAPTCHA in all their classified scripts including iAuto.

CAPTCHA is a Completely Automated Public Turing test used to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. Humans can easily pass this test but computers will hopefully fail.

iAuto Website Classified Software Features: Watermark for Uploaded Images

Watermark for Uploaded Images was added to iAuto Classified Software.

Sharing photos online is risky from the copyright perspective. Someone could take the images for their own use. Watermark for Uploaded Images is the most effective and simple way to protect images and indicate copyrights or identification.

iAuto Website Classified Software Features: Loan Calculator

WorksForWeb in all their classified scripts including iAuto offers this helpful feature. Loan calculator is used to estimate monthly payments of a loan.

iAuto Website Classified Software Features: Tell a Friend

More than half of Internet users (53%) had visited websites referred by friends or family members according to a research by eMarketers.com. Taking it into consideration Tell a Friend feature was implemented by WorksForWeb in iAuto Website Classified Software.

Six Myths about Nulled Scripts, or There’s No Such Thing as Free Lunch

Once every so often our customers are asking us how come on some websites our classified software is sold at a fraction of price or is even free. They further ask how come they have to pay for the software if they can download it for free. Those questions are legitimate and deserve a separate article below.

Most of you have already seen popular software brands and packages available on certain websites such as Germany-based Rapidshare and the likes. The software is offered free of charge or for a nominal price with the labels “Nulled” or “Software Name + keygen”, etc. This essentially means that the software anti-piracy mechanisms have been illegally tampered with or re-engineered. This is a common plague that the entire software industry is suffering from to a certain degree, and the more popular the software becomes, the more frequently its defenses are being tested (sometimes successfully).

Many potential customers share one or more of the six common myths about the use of nulled scripts. Let us take a closer look at those myths...

iAuto Website Classified Software Features: Saved Searches and Saved Ads

For the convenience of users Saved Searches and Saved Ads features were implemented. Users of the website based on iAuto Classified Software who regularly search for certain items can save time by saving their searches or save ads that they like.

Users can use saved searches and ads afterwards and will not need to remember listing ID or re-enter search criteria. Later to check for new ads to the search results, they can run a saved search.