Help & FAQs

Help to how to post advertise

Posting your advertise is very simple.

Consider you want to post the advertise for Alvis car:
Please follow the following steps.

1. You can go to particular sub portal trough "Classic Cars" tab
2. Select the A to B Classic Cars , it will be directed to the A to B Classic cars Subportal
3. You can add your advertise for car under the tab "Buying and Selling Classic" tab
4. Here you can see the A-B Alvis Classic Cars categoty.
5. Click on link buttons(you have to select your price
    option) like "Sell your car for XX £" , it will be directed to the
    available Alvis car models,Under that you can add your car details and post
    the advertise.
6. After submitting the advertise we will get informed about your posting details by email,
    Our admin will approve your posting.you can see the advertise
    on the site only if it is approved.
7. We have categorized the cars in different sub portals, so that for
    example , if you want to search or add adverts for Alivs you can go to
    the A to B Classic Cars sub portals.Here you can find the Alvis car category.

Help to upload image

Instructions for reducing the file size of your car imags:-

If you wish to use a picture with your advert, you may upload an image on the next page. Images must be in 'jpg' format and measure 150(w) by 101(h) at 72dpi.

Please follow these instructions to prepare your photo for upload:

1. Open your photo in an image editing program such as Photoshop or MS Photo Editor or if you do not have one on your pc then here is the link to a free version.

2. Change the Image Size so that total image size is less than 100kb.

3. Select "Save As" from the File menu.

4. Select JPEG (.jpg) as the file format and save your photo to your hard drive.

Instruction for Photoshop:-

Open your image in photoshop and if the size of the image should be less than 800px wide. if it is more then use from Image menu go to Image size and reduce the width to less than 800px.
To crop your image use the crop tool.
For saving your image use save for the web option in file menu and choose JPEG and adjust the quality so the file size is less than 100k. Infact the size that allows end users to access your page at maximum speed is around 40k.
Save your image and you can now upload this image to autoportonline.

Instruction for Microsoft Paint:-

Paint is not an ideal image programme to reduce your file size, but all PCs have it in Start/Programme/Accessories/Paint.
Open your image in Paint after inspecting to see the size of the image by right hand clicking it and viewing its properties.
From menu go to Image/stretch-skew and reduce it to 50%.
Save as some other name as jpg. For example yourimage50.jpg and inspect the new image and see what the size is. if it is still more than 100k then you need to reduce it further.

Instruction for the the supplied image application:-

Although most PCs these days would come with a better than Paint Image manipulation programme, but some don't. You will find that the digital camera that you have purchased comes with a good digital image programme similar to Photoshop. However, we intend to provide you with a free tool to allow you to reduce the file size using a free application. This application would be available in October.