Free classifieds and directory scripts

**pjj1020** · 10-20-2009 07:45 PM

Anyone know of any I can use for a site?
thanks

**entrepreneurrebel** · 10-20-2009 09:32 PM

I would look into Joomla. It is a CMS based web design solution. It has a large community of developers who offer free extensions and others are paid. Joomla! and here are classified ads extensions Classified Ads - Joomla! Extensions Directory .

**pjj1020** · 10-20-2009 09:53 PM

Is it easy and possible for beginners to figure out?

**Alexishost** · 10-23-2009 04:50 AM

The solution for manage your ads to use in your site is e-Classifieds Free Edition hosting

with e-Classifieds Free Edition, it lets you to set up your own classfields section. Futher more it has very easy to use interface.

With this software your users can post/delete their ads without your intervention.

that is so huge in time saving.

And it is good solution if you don't have time to figure it out.

**entrepreneurrebel** · 10-23-2009 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by pjj1020

Is it easy and possible for beginners to figure out?

Yes trust me. The support community is large. Any issue I have ever had has been answered. What you need is a server with PHP 5 or higher and MYSQL installed. Build a database (Godaddy makes this easy for beginners). Go to joomla.org download the install file (on homepage). Unzip it. Upload it via a Filezilla. Go to your domain.com and it will come up with install. Go through the instructions and than you are done.

The are large template designers if you want a better templates.

For one of those scripts go to joomla.org and pick one of the free ones. Download it. Do not unzip (for most of them). Go to you modules -> install.com Click browse files and pick the script.zip. And click install.

That is it.

If you want to learn more there are many knowledge people on the joomla.org forum.

**datingsitez** · 11-02-2009 06:18 PM

Joomla is for building website, not specifically for classifieds, unless you use 3rd party module which sometimes is paid or free. You need moderate php/mysql/linux experience to install/setup/configure. I have tried it myself and I thought it was hard and almost gave up. Also it's very old school, no comparison to web 2.0 cms nowadays. If you are looking for classifieds script, I would recommend datingsitebuilder's classifieds hosting.