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We should surmise that this solution looks professional. The abundant choice of editions is a good prove to it. Still, researches show, that bigger selection is, more difficult it is to make a decision. And it is really so. Say, you decide that you need one solution and proceed to following edition to make sure you did not skip features that are necessary to your online business. And it turns out that you did. You change decision. While you proceed to third one, you might discover that it has features of second edition, but lacks for features of first. You feel frustrated.

Yet, you can see demo of every edition directly without filling in any web form before it. It contributes to web site popularity and makes product more available.

The script is also realized using Perl and text files and customer support of manufacturer costs $75 - $100 per hour. Maybe this rate is confirmation that company really guarantees an irreproachable performance of their product, and you won’t have to refer to them too often; but support is required more often than you might think, since situations differ.

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Of course, we do pay attention to what program looks like, but its internal mechanism does play a great role. The Esvon specialists have seen to this. You can’t see it, but you can be sure Esvon Classifieds script runs well and allows you to avoid typical problems, web applications owners might encounter.

The well thought out and powerful script, its modularity and flexibility are best qualities distinguished by our customers. It is difficult, however, to judge ourselves, thus, we will enumerate features, which were marked by our customers as practically unique in comparison to other similar solutions:

- Static HTML pages generation allows you to have fast web site, indexed in search engines by more keywords and much more accessible to web surfers.

- The script allows you to handle much more site traffic/visitors queries, then other existing applications; fast running PHP code is also marked as an important peculiarity of program. Just as an example, Esvon Classifieds has unique category tree building engine: it is very fast, with only 2 SQL queries to build an unlimited-level category tree with ads amount per category calculation; it will ensure you that your server won’t be brought down by amount of database queries executed!

While we were preparing this article, we received one more email from our customer, where he compares our product with GeoClassifieds (http://geodesicsolutions.com/products/index.htm), and marks following features as award winning in Esvon Classifieds: template system, Gd or imagemagick thumbnail images, very good support, reviews writing and voting, blocks engine, absolutely custom database fields settings.

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GeoDesic product features are very attractive. Here it is: case, when you should go deeper. A typical user can claim that it doesn’t matter, what’s inside; it just should work and do what he expects from it. But deeper approach reveals, that script is not able to process properly growing database queries, its templates are not very flexible, it runs slow and it is unable to generate static content.

Using such script you take risk to be very soon removed from shared web server, since your traffic might exceed maximum allowed server load limit very quickly.

Thus, be meticulous while choosing script fro your online business.

We hope, that this analysis has contributed to your knowledge of what you are looking for on Web. In end, you decide, we just help you to see deeper; we hope that we do.

About Author:

Daria Winkler is Co-founder and Principal of Esvon LLC (http://www.esvon.com/) information technology company, providing cost effective software development and outsourcing services to our clients and professional classified ads software for website owners.

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Sit In The Visitor's Chair The best way to make sure your website is as user friendly as it can be, is to sit down at a computer and approach your site from a typical visitor's point of view. Try to imagine that you are seeing site for first time. If you are unable to do this, have a friend who has never seen site click around and offer comments while you take notes.

Have your friend assess following points: Is site appealing to eye? Are colors pleasing and complimentary? Is site easy to navigate? Are topical categories and subcategories in logical order? Is it easy to find what you're looking for? Does site have a search engine to make finding things easier? Is every feature of site less than two or three clicks away? If answer to any or all of these points is no, you have some work to do.

Don't Dictate Technology One sure fire way to repel web site visitors is to require that they have special browser plug-ins or 3rd party add-on browser software installed to view your site. Dictating that user download and install software is not your place and users will resent you (and your business) for it. Visiting your site should be an effortless pleasure, not a technological chore.

Don't Make Them Wait If your homepage takes longer than 20 seconds to download (appear in visitor's browser) you are losing visitors, period. Gratuitous animation, large graphics, poorly formatted HTML, bad page layout, and a number of other factors can increase download time. You might have greatest web site in world, but if it takes ten minutes to download no one will ever see it.

The lessons to be learned, then, are threefold. One: a website should be designed to satisfy visitor's needs, not to pacify site designer's ego.

Two: visitors to a business website are not there to be awed and entertained. They are there looking for information, and unless you give it to them quickly and effortlessly, they will go elsewhere to get it.

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