If you're not seeing updated classifieds, please click one of the links to the classifieds on our main page, or just go to
www.newmexicanclassifieds.com, and save it as a new bookmark. Several readers have complained about the lack of new classifieds, and we finally figured out together that their long-reliable bookmark was pointing to our vendor's site, instead of to our new replacement system.
Our online classified system has been provided by an outside company, who has been reliable for many years, and for 1,500 different newspapers. Unfortunately, ten days ago, their entire system suffered a catastrophic crash, and all classifieds disappeared. We built a replacement system in two days, and changed the links on our site to point to it, but of course we couldn’t change your bookmarks or favorites on your individual computers!
We started with just the basics – the categories and subcategories for today. Since then we’ve added an advanced search which offers for the first time the option to search a range of days; the “print” and “save” buttons; and a basic directory of the different categories. We’ll be recreating the “Notify Me” function shortly, and we’ll be able to add more features over the next few weeks.
Please let us know if there’s a tool or option that you’d like to see—perhaps something you’ve used on another classified site. Or if there’s an irritation about ours or all classified sites, that you’ve never bothered to tell us about, because you figured that’s just the way things are. Maybe we can do something about it!
