Starting a new classifieds website is considered easy now with the new classifieds software you can find online including ours, but the question remains; how can you manage your classifieds website, get more traffic and get more users involved in publishing and answering ads?
The design, look and feel of a classifieds website plays a major role in getting acceptance from its users, which is why the best advised approach is a User-Oriented Design. This aspect is considered important to businesses and websites alike, you start by asking yourself: who are my users? what design would they prefer? how much time would they spend on creating new ads? …. etc.
It is preferable to ask as many questions as possible about the targeted users before you start designing the classifieds website, when answering these questions an overall view will be formed on how the website might look like, what needs to be added to the classifieds concept and what needs to be removed.
In website design trends during 2013 there have been a major impact of responsive web design and building websites that can work with a wide variety of mobile devices, which also implies a minimalist approach instead of clutter to secure proper loading on mobile screens. Sticky headers and social media integration has been one of the dominant trends in 2013 as well. All of these are tools and ideas that you could take into consideration while designing a classifieds website.
At Open Classifieds we also took that into consideration using HTML5 we remained up to date with those trends and designed our themes to suit your needs and specific requirements as you can see for yourself by checking our themes keeping simplicity and good looking design a priority.
While also using an Open Source approach we gave the opportunity to advanced users to apply their own desired modifications to the script and actually informing them how they could manage their way through our themes and for the less advanced users the possibility to customize their classifieds website.
Happy development and best regards from Kinan and Open Classifieds Team
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