Car Site Manager is an advertising tool for car dealers, to display pictures and details of vehicles they have for sale. In addition they can also display information on their company, staff, financing and their contact details. With our Admin Control Panel, all details on the website can be added to, edited, and deleted through a secure area. Like all our Site Managers, there is no need to know any computer programming, purchase any expensive web design programs or worry about the graphical design of your website.

We have studied numerous different car dealer websites, had meetings with numerous car dealers and combined a number of the best and most wanted features into an easy to use package. Combined with the ability to easily be able to update your website, you can take advantage of a high specification web presence, while still maintaining control and not indulging in maintenance costs or additional software costs.

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Product Features

Unlimited Vehicle Listing
Vehicles are listed with thumbnail photograph, price, make and model with a link to the detail page, to allow visitors to quickly browse to the vehicles they are interested in.

Vehicle Detail
Detailed vehicle information is displayed to visitors when they click on a vehicles they are interested in with bigger picture, description, features, price, full make and model, etc.

User Options
Once viewing a property the user has the option of printing the property on a printer friendly page, emailing the link to a friend or booking a test drive.

Unlimited Categories
Site administrators can add as many categories that are needed for their vehicle listings so that they group vehicles into easily navigated sections, e.g. new, used, 4X4, MPV, etc.

Search Facility
The search facility is short and simple, making it easy for the user to narrow the results based on category,make, and price. Simplicity is the key as opposed to the long 20 questions search facility you see on other similar websites.

Featured Vehicles
Administrators can select a number of vehicles they wish to display on their home page for visitors to see as soon as they enter the website. This facility brings added attention to vehicles the site owner wishes to push.

Unlimited pages
In addition to the vehicle listings, the site can also display pages of information about the company, staff, contact details, etc., which is fully controllable from within the site control panel.

Newsletter Signup
Each page on the site has a newsletter signup form with first name, last name, email address and mail format to be completed. This gives the users of the site the ability to opt in to the mailing list for the website which is all stored within the database.

Secure Control Panel
The password protected control panel, allows the site administrator to login and change virtually anything and everything on the site. Full access is given to vehicle listings, statistics, page content, image upload, mailing list, site settings and more.

Site Statistics
Full statistics are provided in the site control panel, with breakdown on vehicles viewed, printed, emailed to a friend, booked for test drive by month, category and individual vehicle. Get instant feedback on how your visitors are using your site.

Listing Control
Site administrators can add, edit and delete vehicles that are displayed on the website. With full control over the photos, information and price displayed as well as the order each vehicle appears in the listing and on the home page.

Image Upload
The image upload feature allows the site administrator to upload pictures of the vehicles displayed. They can upload a thumbnail which must be of a certain dimension and less than a certain file size.

Print for Display
This feature is set up for the site administrator to print vehicle details directly from the site control panel onto their business letterheads for display in their offices. This feature can save time and energy by the information only having to be entered once.

Newsletter Manager
The newsletter manager allows the site administrator to view subscribers to the newsletter, purge unverified email address, view statistics on monthly signups, send html or plain text emails and review the previously sent newsletters.

Site Settings
A number of site settings can be edited from within the site control panel, such as defaults, mail settings, page formats, etc. These settings are used in all sections of the site and loaded up from the database for use throughout the site.

Easy Installation
Installation is easy. Unzip the files into your preferred directory, change the templates governing the look of the site, set folder permissions, customize your settings, enter your licence number and away you go.

Database Formats
Car Site Manager is supplied with an access 2000 database. This can be upsized to MS SQL and with a few changes in the code; the whole system can work with the preferred database format.

Template Control
Templates govern each of the sections of the site – front-end and backend. These are not headers and footers to edit but actual html templates. Design your whole template leaving a pre-defined space for content and let Car Site Manager do the rest. Site is dynamically built using the template each time the page loads. You can control the design of the front-end website, pop up pages, pop up print pages and even the design of the site control panel.

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Requirements

Car Site Manager works on a standard Windows platform with support for ASP and IIS5. The software has been tested on the following and based on this, these are the main requirements.

System / Server Requirements:

• Windows Server
• IIS 5 +
• CDONTS
• ODBC or DSN-Less Connections
• ASP Installed
• Access to Folder Permissions

Developer Requirements:

• Some ASP Knowledge for modifying some settings
• More ASP Knowledge for advanced customisations
• HTML Knowledge for template design or use a design program such as Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage to design the template

Administrator Requirements:

• Basic computer knowledge for navigating and updating website
• Easy to use control panel allows for basically anyone to be able to update the website

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Demonstration

Frontend Website Demo
The frontend website of Car Site Manager, shows you how the site user will see the site and how easy they will find it to navigate, search, view and contact the site owner. No database update, insert or email functions will be executed in the demo. Click here for Frontend Demo

Admin Control Panel Demo
The admin control panel demo will allow you to take the full system for a test run before purchase. The demo has some restrictions in terms of emailing, changing settings, deleting entries but you should get an idea from what you have access to. Click here for Admin Demo

Some Live Sites using Easy Site Manager

• Deals On Wheels - http://www.dealsonwheels.ie
• John Newman Motors - http://www.jnewmanmotors.com

 

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Reasons to Buy

Auto Dealers
Auto Dealers can take advantage of using Car Site Manager for their vehicle listing website and benefit from saving money on compared to developing a custom solution, saving time and money on updating their website compared to paying a specialist to do this instead, and having a professional, custom looking website to represent your company online.

Web Design & Development Companies
Web design and development companies can use Car Site Manager for their clients website and save lots of time and money in the development of a custom/in-house solution. Sites using Car Site Manager, can be customized, completed and set live in days or even hours. You can reduce your costs and increase sales through high turn around of your websites and a higher sales/development capacity. Basically, increase your return on investment and profitability within your company.

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Custom Installations / Modifications

In some cases you may require us to set up and install Car Site Manager for you or you may want certain features added to the system. We can provide you with a quote for this custom work. As we know the system, we are very fast at customizing and installing it for customers. You can save time and money by requesting us to do the custom work for you. If you would like a quote for some custom work, please contact us with details of your requirements.

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* VAT is chargeable to companies and individuals within Ireland as well as companies and individuals within the EU who cannot provide a valid EU VAT number. All other customers are exempt from VAT. VAT is chargeable at the current Irish rate of 21%.

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