How to best make Nice printouts of our Classifieds

Printing out web pages or even sections of a web site is not the same as doing print jobs from your word processor. The pages never seem to come out as you expect and even pages which LOOK like they would fit onto a single sheet of paper often do not.

Now the CLASSIFIEDS DOES include a printer friendly option to print the page nicely without all our nav buttons and such, however; IF you have uploaded a very LARGE IMAGE for your classified (we suggest a 320 pixel wide image or less) then the printout will take several pages! The option below will allow you to Scale the page so that it fits into well - A single Page....

Making single page printouts of Classifieds, Realty Listings, Job Postings, and other such content is important to your contents viewers. It is also important should you wish to POST your ads at local Bulletin Boards, as Hand Outs, or other such marketing methods as a 2 page spread simple does NOT CUT it with most people (and it is much more expensive for YOU to print as well).

We ASK OUR ad placers creating Classifieds at this site to create their ads in a certain fashion, and use Photos or images of a certain SIZE range not to be a PIA for them, but to HELP THEM as well as their ads viewers to make nice easy Printouts for more effective Marketing for your ad placements at our site..

Many Classifieds at this site simply will NOT FIT onto a single sheet of paper when printed regardless of how well the ad placer has followed our rules and guidelines. A lot of people do not know that for pages which are ONLY SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN A SINGLE SHEET OF PAPER, it is likely they can simply SCALE that page on down a little bit and it will still look very nice and WILL PRINT on a single sheet of paper.

Many people do have printers which make it easy for them to automatically SCALE a page DOWN a bit, many do NOT, still others MAY have such, but do not know how to use the feature. With all this in mind below is a way to do this task which should work for the majority of internet viewers today of your classified ads wihtin our system.

For the purposes of this short inline Tutorial on printing pages, we use one of our Sample Realty Listings I created to help our viewers SEE what they can do at this site. I use this as an example as it contains some 5 photos and a Virtual Tour so it will be one of the LARGER type Classifieds with all that in the ad.

http://a1a-classifieds.com/e107_plugins/r_classifieds/realtyads.php?0.item.2.2.1 This is the Sample we are going to show you..

Okay, first step of course is to bring UP the classified you are interested in making a print out of. In the example below once you are displaying the ad, you will wish to click on the little Printer Friendly icon such as shown below.....

NOW that you have clicked the printer friendly page icon, you will be on the well - Printer Friendly PAGE for that classified ad.

 
IF YOU KNOW that page is NOT going to print out on a single sheet of paper (and you need it to do so), simply select the File option along the left, then scroll on down the drop down list to Print Preview and select it.

Okay now we are in the Print Preview Screen as shown below...

This is an easy way to make YOUR classifieds FIT onto a single printed page (as long as the classified is NOT TOO LARGE).

 
For ads which are very long, scaling the page down a bit will make it hard to read so keep em to the point, short, and relevant

--