Now we can pass on to create the first advertisement.

Before doing this, take a look at a parameters view, where you can set ads and categories configuration. Press Parameters at the top panel.

Then you will see a parameters page, let's start with Main parameters:

Short description:

• Expiration (days) – enter a number of days, duration time the ad is active
• Expiration notification email (days) – number of days left before sending e-mail notification, for 0 notifications are not sending
• Promoted ads price – price for promoted ads
• Enable promoted – enable promoted ads yes/no, promotion advertisements are displayed at the top of the list with blue background color
• Access level – type of users able to add their advertisements registered/all users
• Autopublish – global setting of auto publishing yes/no
• Notification email – select if you want to be informed or not about new ads
• E-mail address – enter an e-mail address where the notifications should be sent
• PayPal account – enter your PayPal account e-mail address
• Price Unit – enter a currency you want to be displayed

Let's take a look at View parameters:

Short description:

• Ads per page – number of items displayed per page
• Number of columns in blog view – enter a number of columns that will be displayed in blog view
• MAX number of images in ad – enter a maximum number of images in ad
• MAX image size (MB) – select a maximum image size (0 for no limit)
• Char limit in intro description – enter a maximum number of characters in intro description
• Display amount of ads in a category – display amount of ads in a category yes/no
• Allow html tags in description – allow to use html tags in description yes/no
• Go straight to the classified – click from table and blog view goes directly to the classified's title
• Display tooltip with a description on image hover – display tooltip with a description on image hover yes/no
• Display tooltip with a description on title hover – display tooltip with a description on title hover yes/no
• Price field – display price field yes/no
• Contact form – display contact form yes/no
• Ask seller form – display 'ask seller' form in the single item view yes/no
• Show details – display ad details in the single item view yes/no
• Show footer – display link to design-joomla.eu addons yes/no

Let's take a look at Images parameters:

Short description:

• Popup thumbnail width/height – dimensions of an image measured in pixels, it is a popup image which appears after clicking on thumbnail image
• Small Thumbnail width/height – dimensions of an image measured in pixels, it is a small image which appears next to the advertisement in the list view
• Blog Thumbnail width/height – dimensions of an image measured in pixels, it is an image which appears in blog view of advertisements
• Thumbnail width/height – dimensions of an image measured in pixels, it is an image which appears in the detail view of advertisement, it is linked to its large image
• Category Thumbnail width/height – dimensions of an image measured in pixels, it is an image which appears in category view of advertisements

Let's take a look at Security and Spam parameters:

Short description:

• Pause time between messages – limit of minutes after which user can once again ask the question to ad
• Number of messages per hour – number of massages that can be sent per hour
• Captcha – a protection system to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer, if you enable it, users will have to read and put two words before adding an advertisement

Make your changes and press Save button.