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Blue Crystal Directory: Features, Flexibility, Power, Control

With more features than any other package, Blue Crystal Directory is the leading software solution for Online Directories. Our feature rich systems and easy to customize Look & Feel gives users a solid foundation for their business. Blue Crystal Directory offers features not seen anywhere else: Interactive Look & Feel Definition, Display layouts based on Listing types, Interactive Coupon creation, Geographical representation of listings, street view, classifieds , jobs, pictures galleries, keyword autocomplete, and much, much more.

Its modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility means your business is no longer constrained by your directory platform.

Blue Crystal gives you total control: You can configure the look and feel of your site, the layout of your web pages and many other features without having to know programming, HTML or PHP. You are free to run your directory business without worrying about technology.

Control every facet of your Directory, from listing types, to styles to layouts and more. There are no limits to creativity with Blue Crystal Directory.

Blue Crystal Directory SEO features and user experience will attract and retain more users,. given you a base for business growth.

Our commercial open source business model yields a product that is superior for a fraction of the cost

The look and feel of the directory can be changed without changing the code of the application. You can replace the system supplied template or modify it via the control panel.

The template is highly configurable and the system let you upload graphics and change colors to define the Look & Feel.

• Define by each major screen if the display will have 1, 2 or 3 columns. The number of columns is also definable by listing type
• Configure text fonts, colors and sizes for dozens of data elements
• Define the website background
• Define the header background
• Define the headers of display boxes
• Define other background colors

The advertisers register through a step by step process and you can set up the order of the steps. Some of the Steps of registration are:

• Select section
• Selec listing type
• Enter Data
• Checkout

You can define the sequence of this steps and can define, for instance, if the user will pay first and then, enter listing data, or if the user will enter its data first and then pay

You can define content pages and build a series of pages with its own structure and navigation. You define the structure of the content pages in the same way that the structure of categories is defined. The admin can then enter content for each page. The content is entered as text or with HTML code

• About the Region
• History
• Attractions
Place to visit 1
Place to visit 2
• Events
• Newcomer information
• Arts
• Sports
Football
Baseball
Basketball
• Weather

These are pages used to provide site information to the visitors and to advertisers.

The website pages feature is used to create additional html pages for your website. Typical pages would be Advertise with us, About us, affiliates, etc,.

Each of these pages can go to a menu at the bottom of the web site and can also be accessed from other places in the site.

Blue Crystal Directory has advanced graphic capabilities using Google maps and street view features

• Geographical navigation
• Display search results in a map
• Search by proximity (radius search) (enter a zip code or a location and find the business that are close by). There is no need to buy zip code databases

Our goal is to provide an advertisement platform and business tool. The features and facilities that we'll be adding in future releases will be defined by our customers needs

Blue Crystal Directory has the basic features that you would expect in a first class directory: Unlimited Listing types, unlimited location levels, unlimited category levels. Listings can have: HTML descriptions, logos. images, offers, multiple addresses, and many other
Front End: Tabbed listings, image gallery, videos.

Other Features:
Multiple Categories and Multiple Locations per listing
Review and ratings

You can define new data entry fields and attributes. These two facilities permit customization of the system to a specific industry, location or particular need allowing advertiser to enter additional descriptive data

The advertisers can easily include the features and services they have to offer. For instance, a restaurant can say they accept credit cards, an hotel can say that have a pool: a rental property can say they are close to public transportation, etc, etc.

The features and services that the advertisers can select will depend on the kind of directory and the administrator can set up unlimited number of features and services that the advertisers can pick and choose to have them showing in their listings

There is a growing number of display boxes that you can choose to have on the site:

• Featured Listings
• Recent Listings
• Popular listings
• Featured Offers
• Recent Offers
• Featured Categories
• Popular categories
• Featured Content
• Featured Images

• Uses LAMP technology.
• Requires PHP 5 and MYSQL
• Built-in SEO - URL's Meta tags