Welcome to the help page for the administration area of your Bridlington.net advertisement.

We have endeavoured to keep the administration process as simple as possible and trust that within a few minutes you will be editing your information and uploading new images like a seasoned pro.

As you may be aware there are a number of advertising areas on the site, there is the general business section, the Free property advertising and the accommodation section, apart from the location the instructions remain the same for all sections.

So here we go;

To access the administration area you need to use your web browser, (Internet Explorer or Netscape etc) and navigate to the area relevant to your advertising. The links below will all open in a new window to enable you to continue to use these instructions while accessing your advertising.

Accommodation Advertising
Accommodation Login

Business Advertising
Business Login

Bridlington Free Property Advertising
Property Login

Bridlington Free Auto Advertising
Autosales Login

This will present you with the logon screen shown below, screens may differ depending upon your advertising type.

In this area simply enter your username and password, if you do not have a username and password you need to contact us.

Once you have entered this information simply click the login button to access your personal area as shown below.

This screen may differ slightly from your own on a number of points, firstly the Establishment Name will be your own if a listing has already been created or there may be no listing at all if you are adding your listing for the first time.

Please note that the majority of users will only be listing a single establishment, those who have subscribed to multiple listings will obviously have more than one property listed or will be allowed to add more than one listing. Although the "Homepage Editor is available we do not utilise this in the listings therefore do not use this area, all the information is entered via the Listing editor.

If your listing already exists and you simply wish to amend details then click on the word modify if you are adding a new listing select the Add button.

So depending upon whether you are adding or amending the selection you choose will bring you to the following screen.

Here you will find either blank boxes or if your information has already been created, completed boxes. To add or edit content simply select the box required and type, you will note that the two "description" fields have an "Auto Format" tick box available. The vast majority of users will need to tick this box, a full explanation of its purpose can be obtained by clicking the "?" to the right of the tick box.

You will see that the majority of information is supplied by simple drop down boxes supplying "YES" or "NO" text, as these areas provide the basis for the accommodation search facility it is important that you select the appropriate response to the field as omitting a field or selecting an incorrect response could affect your appearance in any search.

Hopefully you will see that all is simple and straightforward in the information area and as such we now come to the ability to upload images to accompany your information, this is achieved at the foot of the data entry screen as shown below.

Again your view will differ dependant upon the images already uploaded, to upload new images for your listing simply select the upload button, this will present you with a screen as shown below.

On your screen all the boxes will be blank, simply select the "Browse" button and you will be able to navigate your own PC's hard drive simply find an image file you wish to add to your listing (jpeg or Gif format) and it will appear as in the listing above, you may display up to 9 images on your information. (Important note... please be aware of the sizes of your images as the larger the file size the longer it will take to view, our software will not allow you to upload any image which is larger than 150k however we would advise keeping your image files to around 100K in size)

For those with limited graphic editing tools or knowledge there are three methods of reducing your image size, one is to email the image to yourself using outlook or outlook express which will ask you if you wish to reduce the image, as such the image you receive back in the email will be much smaller in file size and hopefully small enough to upload to your advertising, the second is to use a free program called Easy Thumbs photo resize which we have made available for you to download from here... The third option is to arrange to either email or post the images to ourselves and we will do the conversion for you for which we make a small charge £3.50 per picture.

Once you have selected your images simply click the "Upload" button and the images will be automatically copied from your PC to our servers and allocated to your account.

Once the images have been transferred you will be provided with the opportunity of adding a descriptive text to each image, this will also help you to identify each image within your listings.

Once you have added your text simply select the "Save" button.

This will then bring you back to your listing entry form, scroll down to the bottom of the form as shown below

To select a preview image (which will also appear on your full description) simply click on the drop down box and select from the list of images available, repeat this process for the other 8 images, please note that only the preview image will be displayed on the search and listings results however all the images will be available on your full description page.

When you are happy with all your selections simply select the "Save" button and your information will automatically be updated.

If anything needs changing simply start again from the top of this page.

If you have any problems please do not hesitate to contact us at advertising@bridlington.net or on 01377 236282