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Placing Photos In Photo Gallery

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Sign up on bridge-city.com

 
  To sign up on Bridge City Ads you can follow this link http://bridgecityads.com/signup/newmember.htm.

To sign up on Bridge City Ads is free of charge. The only time that you are charged for any services at Bridge City Ads, is if you use a premium service. such as placing more than two ads at a time or if you are a business placing ads on our site. check our premium pricing. Follow this link http://bridgecityads.com/cgi-bin/kcscripts/shop-cart/ShopCart.cgi

When you sign up with Bridge City Ads your account will stay active for ever. If you E-Mail can not be contacted for any reason your account will be removed.

What happened to my account. I can not find or login to my account. There is a good reason you can not access your account any more. You did not sign up with the proper information you place a bogus phone number, zip code or  address. If your contact information is not real your account will be removed. All information is checked.

To sign up for premium service. You need to set up a free account first. After your account is set up go to this link ( http://bridgecityads.com/cgi-bin/kcscripts/shop-cart/ShopCart.cgi ) and purchase the premium service that will suite your needs. When purchasing the premium service make sure that you use the e-mail that you signed up with.. Leave me a note with your account name so we will know who you are.

Go to the Shopping Cart and purchase and extra ad. Follow this link http://bridgecityads.com/cgi-bin/kcscripts/shop-cart/ShopCart.cgi Use your signup e-mail and account name in message

 
 
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Placing Ads on bridge-city.com

 
  If You are placing a classified ad you must first sign up for your free account with Bridge City Ads. Follow this link ( http://bridgecityads.com/signup/newmember.htm.), After your account is set up login  to your member area. After you are logged in click on classified icon to the left. A new page will open to your classified ad menu. Click on the Place Ad  button. This will bring you to the page where you select a category to place your ad. Select category and hit the submit button. A new page will open to enter your information about your item. After that information is entered go to step 2 and enter photos. You can enter up to 3 photos of your item up to a maximum resolution of 640X480. You do not have to fill all 3 photo spots or even enter a photo. The first photo that you enter is the photo that will be placed in the ad listing. After photos are up loaded hit the submit button. Your ad will not be up right away it will be pending for review by us and then posted after it is reviewed. review times are first thing in the morning and in the evening.

Your ad may not be showing up in the classified listing area for 2 reasons. 1 it has not been reviewed by Bridge City Ads yet, 2 the ad did not pass the review due to some improper content. if this is the case you will not be notified by Bridge City Ads. You may contact Bridge City Ads and maybe some changes can be made to get your ad posted.

When placing photos during the ad entering process the only file extinctions that you can us are as follows jpg, gif, png, any other file extinctions will not be accepted. The size of the photo can not be any larger than 640X480.  If you are using a dialup connection I ask that you upload only one photo at a time it may be possible to up load 2 the first time. If you get a error during up load of photos try upload 1 at a time.

Your ad will be listed for 60 days  an it will be automatically removed from our listing. You will have to repost if your item did not sale. Or send us a e-mail to take it out of our trash bin and repost it for you.

There is no limit. you can place as many ads as you wish for free. Remember only 2 free ad at a time for businesses.

You can remove your ad by accessing your member area. Click on the classified icon to the left.  your classified listing is in this area. Select the box next to the ad hit the delete button.

Yes you can edit your ad. by accessing your member area and clicking on the classified icon to the left. When in the ad menu out to the right side of your ad click on the edit link you can edit your ad any time. You can change text and photos.

 

 
 
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Business Information

 
  This is also a free service that we offer listing local business not just Bridge City the entire area. If  I have not passed by you business yet to pick up a card. You can upload a scan of your card right on my site make sure you scan at 200% . You can upload after you register. You will have full control over your business card. You can register in the Members Area after you make your  free account and login to the members area click on the register link under business cards on the lower left hand side of the members area page. This section of the site requires a different users name and password to login. Place photos of your business  by using bb code. click on the question mark in the comment area when editing  this will explain how to use the bb code. If you can't figure it out give me a call I will help you with it, this is a example of what you can do and their is much more. Or you can mail it to us 111 Holly Grove Bridge City Texas, 77611 and we will scan it for you. This is the code that is used for adding special , pictures, font size, links, email address and text color. This code only works in the business card and photo section of the site.

bbcode help

You can add clickable links and some formating to this field by using bbcode tags:
  • [b]Bold[/b] => Bold
  • [i]Italic[/i] => Italic
  • [url=http://yoursite.com/]Url Text[/url] => Url Text
  • [email]user@domain.com[/email] => user@domain.com
  • [color=red]some text[/color] => some text
  • [img]http://coppermine.sf.net/demo/images/red.gif[/img] =>
     
  • To place a banner ad on this site you need to contact us by phone 409-960-2452 or e-mail webmaster@bridgecityads.com

    You  need to purchase premium service http://bridgecityads.com/cgi-bin/kcscripts/shop-cart/ShopCart.cgi

     

     
     
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    News Article And Events

     
      Yes this section of Bridge city Ads is also free and  can be used any time you need to place articles and events unlimited use. These two sections of the site are very powerful you can ad photos change text size and color just about any type of html.

    Placing articles or events. You need to log into your account click on the  News Publisher or Event Icon. Click on Ad new Article if you are placing a article or Ad New Event if your placing a event.. Fill in the all information asked.

    Placing a photo at the top of  you article or event  the photo can to exceed  450 pixels in width if the photo exceeds this size it will distort the page and will be removed by Bridge City Ads. Up load the photo from your computer in the photo section of the form. Click on show photo and then click on the browse button and up load your photo.

    Placing photos in your article. You need to have a place to host the photos and link to your photos using html.<img src="http://www.whatever.com/photo.jpg"> or you can force the photo size by using this <img src="http://www.whatever.com/photo.jpg" width="450" height="187">

    This is some simple code you can usein your article and event

    <p>Starting with some simple paragraph code this code it is the p code. Anything between the <p> code will be in its own pargraph.</p>

    <center> next is center code if you need to place your text or photo in the center of the page yous this code</center>

    <font size="5">this changes your font size of your text</font>

    <font size="5" color="#000000">this changes the color of your font</font>

    Use this to ad any graphic<img src="http://www.whatever.com/photo.jpg">

    Use this code to place a line across the page <hr color="#000000" size="3">

    Using code together:

    <p><center><font size="5">This is the code all rapped up into one starting with the first paragraph </font></center></p>

    <p><font size="3" color="FF0000">This is the font size and color that you will see using this code in the next paragraph</font></p>

    <center><img src="http://bridgecityads.com/New_Page/atb.gif">This is the graphic<center><hr></center>

    This is the results:

    This is the code all rapped up into one starting with the first paragraph

    This is the font size and color that you will see using this code in the next paragraph

    This is the graphic.


     

    Note! It is best to use the note pad to paste your article into the form,.
     

     
     

     

    Photo Gallery

     
      To place photos in the photo gallery you must sign up with your free account at this location http://bridgecityads.com/signup/newmember.htm . After you log in to your account you must register for the photo gallery. This section of the site requires a different users name and password. After you have registered you can log in and out on the photo gallery on the gallery page. http://bridgecityads.com/photogallery/index.php  Left hand side, photo controls.

    Yes you can make your own gallery. After you login to the photo gallery. Look at the top of the gallery page you will see a menu grey in color, Click On Create Album. . You can place photos in you own galleries or the public galleries already listed. Go see Sample Gallery .

    To edit photos. After you have logged in to the photo gallery click on the Photo that you have uploaded you will be able to edit or delete that photo ad and remove text as needed. You can also change location of the photo to any public gallery and personal gallery.

    You should make you photos no larger than 640X480 to keep from using all of you storage space. The largest you can up load is 8X10 inch photo.

    Yes BB Code is allowed in the photo gallery you can also ad photos from other storage areas or other locations on the net. by placing it under your existing photos see example . You use the BB Code in the Text box below you uploaded photo and that will be the result. If you make your photos larger than 500 pixels wide during the bb code usage I will remove them from the site.

     
     
     

    Personal Pages and Brochures

     
      To start build you personal page you will need to sign up for your free account http://bridgecityads.com/signup/newmember.htm . After you sign up login to your account and click on brochure icon in the left hand column of your account area.

    To get started click on the Brochure Icon in the left hand column of page. When you get in to the Brochure Main Menu area you will see where you brochure is located at. Nothing will show up in this location until you chose a template. Until you choose a template you will see is this Directory has no index file. Click on template and select one. Note you can change your templates any time you wish and it will not effect anything on your page.

    Next place your logo or photo. Click on photo upload or change your photo You can ad some type of  logo or photo in the top of your personal page or brochure. Make sure that the photo fits your template, that goes for any photos that you ad during the build of your page. The top logo or photo can be changed at any time.. Now you should be able to click on you link and see your page.

    To ad content to your page click on text the will bring you to the text editor where you can change the content of you page. See sample page The content on this page was added in the text editor follow the instruction on the sample page or contact me a service@bridgecityads.com

     

     
     

     

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