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List of the main Car Portal features

Car Portal is composed by five main parts:

front site (easy customizable and template based)

private sellers administration space (allowing the private sellers to manage their profile, ads and others)

dealers administration space (providing functionality to the dealers to work with multiple ads and manage their profile)

affiliates administration space (allowing them to manage their profile and monitor their earning reports)

admin panel (accessible only by the administrators, providing full control over the website - its structure and content and the car portal settings and users)

Ads distance search based on ZIPs (the users may search for cars located not far from selected distance)
US and European search schemes supported (including make and models databases for both the USA and Europe)
WYSIWYG front site template editor
The number of pictures per ad can be defined by the administrator - the number of pictures can be from 0 to unlimited per car ad
SEO links for the ads, looking as static html files - for ex. http://www.domain.com/car/2/bmw-645-2005.html http://www.domain.com/make/BMW.html Multi administrators back office - multiple administrators with different permissions can access the Car Portal back office

The registered private sellers have access to their personal administration space where they can: edit their profile, manage their car ads, see their private messages, manage the settings for their ads (for example if their email is visible for the other users etc.), contact the support center and others.
The dealer users have some special functionality allowing them to work with ease with multiple job ads.

After logging in to their personal administration space, the affiliate partners may see statistics for their earning reports and perform the other standard actions like editing their profile, contacting the support center etc.

Standard WebSiteAdmin functionality coming by default with Car Portal:

big list with available extensions and custom modules

multilanguage websites support

add new pages to the website (and delete/activate/deactivate them)

edit the content of the pages with a powerful WYSIWYG editor

set custom extensions to be executed for selected pages

use different templates for the website and a powerful templates functionality

extend the application with ease with new Back office modules and application extensions written by yourself

use standard, multiple levels and customized predefined menus, which are automatically generated according to the website structure

manage the URLs of the pages of your website, setup for example search engines friendly URLs to be used

cross browser WYSIWYG editor to edit the website pages content

define custom template tags and set custom extensions to be executed for them

create custom server side forms, like Contact pages or product information request forms, with and integrated WYSIWYG forms designer

consult the data sent by users through the published forms on the site

see statistics and charts for the visits of the website

optimize the site for search engines, set custom titles, meta keywords and description for the pages, check the queries that the visitors used in Google to find your website

submit your website to the major crawler based search engines, like Google and Alltheweb for example

check search engines index report

see search engines popularity report for a selected page

consult history for your login/log outs to the Back office application

security features to protect your website and the Back office application

detailed security reports for the Back office

define multiple groups and users for the Back office and assign them different access settings for the resources of the application

consult history reports for the different users

customize the interface of the Back office application (individually for every user)