Classifieds goes BAD ASS!

I couldn't think of a better title hehe ...

If you are selling a car on the classifieds now, everything has just got a whole lot better!

The advert style now mirrors the e-bay listing format, so when you place your ad - you've got a nice selection of drop downs and checkboxes to choose from.

A completed ad looks like this > http://www.fiatforum.com/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=13796 (there are more fields, I just didn't know which ones went with that car!)

You can now also run an ad for 30 days instead of 14 as people were complaining it was too short

This took MASSIVE changes, so please report if you see anything amiss - I could have overlooked something.

Also, apologies - but any data you had put in before for Colour, Milage, Tax, MOT or Year has been lost - edit your ad and replace it ... sorry about that!

For the rest of you - get the word out - FF is the place to sell your FIAT!

 

[karbineftw]

Mate thats great! Good work fella

 

[grimwau]

Ben, looks great,a real improvement but I can't see the "mileage" section you mention above, maybe it's me!

 

[ben]

It is there, but only appears if someone fills it in.

I should make some fields required I guess...

 

[CLXCraig]

Looks much better. Hopefully it wil stop all the suestions being asked over and over again.

Another good additon, i think, when you suppersize a picture, you just get the option of viewing the picture you clicked... would it be possible to have a slidehsow feature, or next/prev arrows?

 

[HFLagos]

Hi, that is my advert referenced in the original post.

Ben - could you kindly look into ensuring that there is a "0" option available for the number of previous owners...... I had no choice but to put "1" in the drop down box.

 

[Focus Owner]

Manufacturer's Warranty Expiry Date March 2010 + 3rd year by Dealer
yes was able to have being inputted


Number of Previous Owners apparently can not have 0 posted

cmon ben a few mistakes made here

 

[ben]

If you are the first owner, then previous owners is 1 - ie you! 0 would be a brand new car.

daz - dont understand your first issue?

 

[ben]

Oh I see, you mean validation on the fields. Haven't gotten around to that yet, that is stage 2 (which also includes required fields)

 

[HFLagos]

Ben.

If Mr A is selling a car which was purchased brand new by himself, there are 0 previous owners. This is also what it would say on the V5 form for the car.

If Mr B buys the car from Mr A, only then does the car have 1 previous owner. i.e. once the transaction is done and the car has been transferred into Mr B's ownership. That is also what it would say on the V5 form for the car.

 

[ben]

Ok, I guess the wording is quite ambiguous.

Added a "None" option

 

[HFLagos]

Thanks Ben!

 

[ben]

No problems. Added basic validation to some fields now (setting certain ones as required) so at least the full info needed for each car will be in (in some form!)

Wondering whether it's worth doing regex on some fields (to force dates to be in a certain format) - but could be more hassle than it's worth.