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C2C Forward Auction System   Your auction users will be able to read about your auction site and company, and also click on ‘contact us’ button to contact you (the auction site owner) via email or telephone number (all source codes are customizable, depended on your needs.) Click on ‘join now’ will allow new user to register to you as a new member. In Part 2, user will be able to go to system sections through the auction menu bar which are described as below. Auction Home: Click this link to go to Auction home page New User Registration: Register to assign user name and password for new user Post New Item: Allow registered user to post new item or service on auction Feature Auctions: Display a list of paid feature auctions which is also on home page Going, Going, Gone: All auctions that are ending today Today’s New Auctions: All new auctions posted by users at today’s date About This Auction: Telling users about the user agreement Logout: Registered user can log out this auction. Need to log in on next session Bidder Service: Bidder can log in to check all bidding history Seller Service: Seller can log in to check and re-list all auctions Contact Support: Customer service site for all register users to contact administrator Admin: Administrator can log in to monitor or control all auctions and system     Note: If Auction Administrator wishes to edit this auction menu bar at the heading, please use FrontPage program, WordPad, or other HTML editors to modify the file ‘bhead.inc’ inside [auction] directory. User will be provided with the auction and seller search engines, which will search out the results based on the keywords of seller and item name, directly from Microsoft Access database (through open database connection). This database connection is customizable to upgrade to Microsoft SQL server database connection.        User can search for current, completed or all auctions, based on the keywords typed on the provided search field. At least four featured auction items will be displayed on the auction home page, with pictures and links to the respective auction pages. Users will be able to click on the main category name as listed below and then click on their respective subcategories in the following page in order to view all relevant auctions. All categories are general available categories and are pre-selected. To edit the category list, auction administrator can click on ‘admin’ link on the auction menu bar to continue to category updating section.   Below is an example of auction: 1 unit of PowerPoint 2000 training software.  Current price is incremented by the auction system from its first bid price, based on the number of bids that this auction item received. The auction starting date and ending date are counted by the system when a seller posted this item as auction. The seller indicated the duration period inside the auction posting form. Location is the physical location of the auction item. This will allow the potential bidders to estimate the cost of delivery and shipping days from its physical location to the bidder’s location.  Seller’s name will be displayed at the auction page, and the potential bidders will be able to check his past online trading experiences with other members through the ‘Seller Setting’ system. Higher number of rating (could be negative, depending on the seller’s creditability and reliability) on the past trading history will improve bidder’s confidence on dealing with the seller. Payment type, shipping methods and shipping regions are displayed accordingly in order to allow bidders to understand more about this auction item before placing their bids on it. Current highest bidder’s name will be displayed at the same auction page, with his number of rating displayed beneath the user name.   Of course, the past sellers who have trading activities with this buyer will be able to post relevant feedbacks for the past trading experiences with this bidder, by clicking on the ‘rate bidder’ link. His past trading experiences with other members will be recorded inside ‘bidder’s rating’ link. The auction description posted by the seller is displayed on the auction as below. Sellers are encouraged to post auction description with HTML in order to make the auction lively and attractive. Of course plain text is allowed in the description. The following informs users regarding the general bidding information for this auction item. Registration is required as only member is allowed to place the auction bid. New user can click on the ‘Registration’ link to register as member in a few steps. To place an auction bid, the user will need to type in his User ID and Password. Please type in a maximum bid price. This price should be larger than the current incremented bid price by other bidders. If you have any comment or special instruction for this auction item, please type in the Comment box. This comment will be posted in the auction bidding history site, together with bidder’s auction bid price and user ID, after submitted the auction bid.   Auction Administration System   ‘Admin’ is the administration panel for the Auction Administrator. This administration panel allows administrator to: Close Item | Add Categories | Delete Categories | Delete Item | Deleted History | Remove User | Change Setting | Logout     System Requirements: Local computer testing needed Microsoft Personal Web Server (PWS, downloadable from Microsoft.com or found in Windows 98 Installer CD) or Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS, pre-built in Windows NT). 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