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Welcome To The User Control Panel

Use this area to update your account details and also to submit your listings or to update your listings. The details that you entered at the registration stage, will be added to the bottom of your listings to provide contact information for prospective buyers/renters. Here are a few tips that will help you with your submissions.

• Read through these instructions to get a basic idea and then click the "Add a Listing" button so that you can get started.

• You will be see a message - "Please select the property class you wish to add a listing to". Choose one and click submit.

• You are now transported to a property submission form. The most important requirement is that certain fields marked with red asterisks * must be filled or your submission will fail.

• The first field is labeled "Title". This should be short and descriptive like "Beach Cottage for Sale" or "Beach Cottage for Short Let".

• Anything entered in the "Notes" box are not added to your listing but are visible when you need to edit or update your listing.

• Fill in the rest of the form according to which attributes best describe your property. You will notice that certain form boxes might not be relevant for your situation. For instance, the "appliances" section might not be relevant for sellers but could be for renters. Simply skip anything irrelevant.

• Once you are happy that you have captured all your information correctly, double check that you have filled in the required fields (Very Important that you remember this) and click the "Submit" button.

• You have now successfully listed your property and message will appear inviting you to now edit your listing. Click the "You may now edit your listing " link.

• To modify your listing - click the "ADMIN" button on top right of the navigation menu bar. Click the "Edit My Listings" Icon. You will be transported to a page that shows your listing(s). You will see two icons - "Modify Listing" and "Delete Listing" . Click the "Modify Listing"

• All your captured data that you have entered is now visible. If you ever need to update your listings info at any stage, simply modify the necessary data and click the "Update" button at the bottom of the form. In the top left corner you will see a "Preview" link. Click this link to have a look at how your listing appears to the public. If you wish, you can now add some images of your property.

Uploading Your Images

       Hopefully, you are still on the "Edit My Listings" page. In the top left corner, you will see a link "Edit images". Click this and you will be taken to a new page where you are able to upload images from your computer. Images need to be uploaded individually and they can  be any size. The system will automatically reduce large images down to a 500 pixel width and an 90 pixel/sq.inch resolution.

1.   At the bottom of the page, you will see a section called "upload a picture" with a "browse" button. Clicking the "browse" button opens up a dialog box showing your computer's file system. Navigate to the location where you have stored your images on your computer. By single clicking the image file you will notice that the "file name" of the dialog box is now filled with your selected image's file name. 

2. Click "open" on the dialog box and that image file name will now appear inside the browse box on the web page. 

3. Click the "upload picture" button and  wait while your image is being uploaded to the server. The time this upload takes depends on the size of your image. You can save yourself long uploads by reducing the size of the image files before you upload. If you are able, use a photo editing program (a good freeware choice is IrfanView) to reduce the size of your images to a 500 pixel width and a 90 pixel resolution. Do not worry if you are not able to reduce the file size because the system will do it for you on the server. You will, however, have to wait longer while then image uploads.

4.   When you can see your image on the web page, your upload has been completed successfully. You are now able to give your image a caption and a description that will appear with the image in your property listing. 

5. A default "Rank" of 5 will have been allocated to your image. "Rank" is the vertical column position of your image with the lowest ranking number at the top of the column. For example, if you have uploaded three images and you have given the first a ranking of 5, the second a ranking of 10 and the third a ranking of 15 then the image with a ranking of 5 will become the top image and the image ranked 15 will be at the bottom of  the image column. 

6. Once you have completed your "rank", "caption" and "description" - click the update button. 

7. Repeat this whole process for as many images as required.

8. When all your images have been uploaded, return to the previous page by clicking  "Return To Editing Listing". You will find this link at the top of the page. Now preview your listing again and you will see your new listing complete with the added photos.

9. That's it!!!  If you encounter any problems with this procedure, send me the images as attachments via e-mail and I will submit them to your listing for you. Also, if you do not have access to a digital scanner or a digital camera send me the prints via post. Whichever it is - e-mail or post, please indicate to me your listing reference and if you send prints via post, please give a return address so that I can send them back to you.