First of all, your site is great. I'm a .NET developer and designer so I do appreciate and notice all the work you've put into it. When it comes to php, I don't know that much.
Things I like:
Header Graphic Nice
The location selection at the top
The cascading category selection when you post an ad.
Advanced Search on the right
Very polished.
Comments:
I have a preference to the categories listing in the default Classipress. That way people can see how many
items are available in the Video Game category for example. Like if you want a video game and don't know any
titles, it will show you all on the home page. I know there is the category in the menu, but you almost have to
know it's there. I know you have your reasons, that's just my preference.
Also when you choose a category from the top menu and you get to the results page, the sub categories are on the right but maybe make it stand out more (because of my above comment) I would add the category name above the 'Sub Categories' header jsut to draw attention to it. I like Classipress's ability to show listings as well as have a search (like Craigslist) which makes it very flexible. Some people like seeing all of their options and drilling down through the categories and some like just doing a search if they know exactly what they want.
I would use a CAPTCHA insead of the math question to help eliminate the spam for your
customers, those bots are getting smarter. Go here for instructions if interested:
http://forums.appthemes.com/recaptch...age-ads-15208/ .
I would try to put your tag cloud at the bottom with the width of the ads. Many of the pages are very tall jsut because the cloud section on the right is pushing it down. It's preferrable not to have all that white wasted empty space.
I'll have more comments after I look at it more as I really like your site.
So here are my questions:
-I'd love to know how you set the cookie to save their location, that is something i've been trying to find out for a long time.
-I'm interested in how you put the 'Country/All Cities' at the top of your page. I'm guessing you are running a multisite? I am going to eventually have all 50 states and their cities all in multisites. I really don't want to make around 350 multisites for all the cities, it would be a WHOLE lot easier to make 50 and have the cities within each one, like you have.
-The cascading categories when you post an ad is really cool and would be necessary to make my 50 state multisite so I am very interested in how you did that too.
That is all I have for now, but I would appreciate any help.
-Matt
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