MiniAds Blog

Introducing Premium Ads

2011-02-03T08:56:00.000-08:00

We are happy to announce another update of the MiniAds site.

You can now upgrade your ad.
The upgrade options are: bumping the ad up, adding a border, icon etc.

Please go to http://miniads.ca/app/account/adsmanage and then click on Upgrade

Note: you must have at least one ad in order to see the Upgrade link.

Another update is that you can bookmark the current page.

Slavi Marinov

Another Update of the MiniAds.ca site.

2011-01-21T04:43:00.000-08:00

We are happy to announce another update of the MiniAds.ca site.

The changes are the following

User accounts
Users can manage/suspend/resume/delete ads.
When an ad is suspended it will be removed from the listing within several hours.
To readd an ad one must resume it and it will appear in the listing within several hours.

Notes:

   1. To register go to http://miniads.ca and then use the "Register" link in the top right corner

   2. if you want your previous ads to appear in your account please contact us either by replying to this message or by visiting http://miniads.ca/local/contact
      We can find your old ads using the email you contact us from.

Points system
Users receive points when they do certain actions. Read more about the actions that give points http://miniads.ca/local/static/page/helppoints/
In the future users can use points that they have accumulated to *buy* premium services such as making an ad highlighted etc.

Ads Everywhere
Ads can now appear in multiple cities, provinces, or in the whole Canada.

A new design

2010-09-04T11:30:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,

We've just pushed another update & a few fixes.
The site now has a new look. I hope you like it.

Here is how it looks like

MiniAds Team

Introducing Email 2 Ad

2010-08-30T00:09:00.000-07:00

We've been working on a feature which allows you to send an email to a specific email address and the system will analyze the message and then convert it into an ad. It's so cool.

You can also attach files as long as they are from the following supported types/extensions :

jpeg,jpg,png,gif,bmp,tiff,psd,rtf,doc,txt,pdf,xls

It is important to know that the email address consists of a category ID and a city ID so make sure
you have selected your city.

Here are the instructions if you want to post an ad in St. Catharines

http://stcatharines.miniads.ca/local/helpemail2ad

How to get to the email2ad help section ?

Please go to http://miniads.ca/ > Select a City > Help > Scroll down to "How to post an ad via email"

Give it a try and let us know.

MiniAds' Content can now be syndicated

2010-07-26T19:19:00.000-07:00

We are happy to announce the latest changes.
Now it is possible to include MiniAds content on your site.

Here is how

    <script src='http://cdn.miniads.ca/site/share/widget/widget.min.js'></script>

    <script type='text/javascript'>
    //<![CDATA[
    try {
        var w = new MiniAds.Widget({
          city_id: 'stcatharines', // Use ID: 3 or Link: stcatharines (no spaces)
          limit: 5,    // max 25 
          width: '400px', // greater than 0
          height: '350px', // greater than 0
          layout: 'list', // possible values: table or list, default: table
          domain: 'yourdomain.com' }).render();
    } catch (err) {
        //alert(err.description);
    }
    //]]>
    </script>

Here is the result

MiniAds: New Extras

2010-07-11T13:57:00.000-07:00

We are happy to announce some nice changes.

Quick Suggestion Box - An easy way to share your valuable feedback with us

Functionality for saving poster's contact info on current computer (Post Ad).
This will be helpful when somebody posts an ad and have his/her contact info saved.

Added alternating rows to improve readability and head rows are styled now

Added a quick an eazy way to change the city (thank you anonymous)
Changed top navigation colours to red (thank you anonymous)

Post an ad in multiple cities

2010-06-15T22:14:00.000-07:00

We are happy to announce another update of the site.

What we've improved ?
- Now, you can post an ad in multiple cities at once. Here is how it looks like.
You've got to hold the control key while clicking to select more than one city.

- More descriptive error messages when posting the ad
- Misc. Fixes & Improvements

Smart Logic: Auto prefill fields

2010-06-08T15:27:00.000-07:00

Hello,

We have pushed another update.
So when the person finishes typing his/her ad (i.e. by moving to the next field) the system will analyze the ad content and extract some info such as email, phone, site, and price. The info will be inserted into relevant fields only if they do not have a value yet.
This should save you some time typing.
Smart, eh ?

Slavi

Victoria Day 2010 Tweaks

2010-05-22T10:04:00.000-07:00

Just want to give you a quick update.

If you use "-1" in the price field we'll treat that as price Not Applicable. It makes a lot of sense if you post about your service.

Oh, by the way, from now on, after submitting an ad, you'll receive an email containing a link to it.
So you can refer to it at a later time. So always make sure you're using the correct email.

Have a nice Victoria Day Canada

Images, Documents, Embedded Videos

2010-05-09T14:33:00.000-07:00

We have been working very hard recently on some nice features.
They allow you to upload images (jpg,png,gif), documents (rtf,doc,txt,pdf,xls) or use external links to a web address.
You can also embed videos from video sites such as YouTube, Revver, Vimeo etc.

Here is the upload button

Upload file window

Here is how to embed videos into your ads

Feel free to give your feedback either as a comment below or through the contact form

We've added a Rich Text Editor!

2010-04-16T10:40:00.000-07:00

We've added a Rich Text Editor. Here is how part of Post an ad screen looks like

The editor's home page is http://ckeditor.com

Thank you open source!

.... and we're live

2010-04-13T07:15:00.000-07:00

We're happy to share that site has been released.
Feel free to share your new ideas and future improvements.

miniAds is on facebook, twitter & tumblr!

2010-02-21T14:17:00.000-08:00

Hi all,

miniAds is on facebook, twitter & tumblr!

Feel free to follow us on all of them.

Thanks,
Slavi