How to register, login and upload classifieds on TCT:
- Look up at the right hand corner - click on register, enter some info including email address
- You'll get an email and you'll need to click on link to verify your email
- Now you'll have a userid/password set
- Come back to the site and now you can login (again in the upper right hand corner)
- Once logged in, you click on “Place An Ad” (again upper right hand corner)
Support the club if you use the service
The classified ads are a free service we provide but we encourage those that use the service to purchase a TCT membership for themselves or for the new owner to help offset the costs of the website and classified ad software.
Having problems posting your pictures with your Ad?
If the pictures you intend to use are very large in terms of file size (>1 meg), the Classified Ad system might not accept them and you'll need to resize them and make them smaller.
If you'd like to use a web-based image resizer and free online image editing site Picnik is a good bet. Here is another web-based image resizer that is easy to use: http://www.resize2mail.com/
If your using Windows and have a batch of images to deal with, Microsoft has free software to do this - here is an article and where to download
If you can't do it yourself, send the photos to webmaster@tincantourists.com and I'll upload them on your ad for you. How is that for service?
Want to add more pictures to the Ad?
You can add pictures in the body of the classified ad if you'd like. This takes a bit html and you need have placed the image out on the internet somewhere. I use flickr to upload images and then I can reference them in the body of the classfied ad.
Here is an example of that:
<img src=“TYPE WHERE THE IMAGE IS LOCATED HERE” width=“XXX” height=“YYY” />
Using the width and height - you can resize the image to fit nicely in the classified ad.
Here is a working example:
<img src=“http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4518463492_f19d63ccba.jpg” width=“500” height=“362” alt=“PatioLights” />
This will display like this:
My Classified Ad is marked as Sold and I didn't do it?
When you create a classified ad, your asked the question: “How long do you want your ad to run?” You can select up to 90 days. After that time period, the system will mark your ad as sold unless you come in and relist the ad. The reason for this is more times than not people forget to mark their ads as sold and then buyers become frustrated and sellers contact me to remove the ad or mark it as sold. This forces the seller to be active in the system and relist if the item is still for sale.
