Once you register, your username and password will allow you to make changes personally to your ads or contact info as needed. Add photos, correct a mistake on your ad, update your email address, cancel your ad - just go to My Account page and click on the item you need to change.

These are some of the new features: My Favorites (favorite ads will be saved for you for later consideration), Hide your email address to protect yourself from junk/scam mail and communicate with your customers through our free forwarding service. Email ads to your friends and much more.

To post an ad:

After you register, you can place an ad by clicking on the pink tab, where it says: Place an Ad. Then you can choose the category that is most appropriate for your ad. Please note that these two categories, Sheltie Clubs Directory and Sheltie Rescues Directory are for the exclusive use of Clubs and Rescue organizations. Any ads posted in these categories by others will be removed.

After you click on the Category you'd like to place your ad under, you will be directed to the page where you can enter the ad. It will be a 3 step process:

1- The text. You can enter up to 25 lines of text. There will be questions to help you remember info that will be important for your buyers. Now you can design your own ad's "look" too: do you want your text centered, green and Arial font, two different sizes? No problem. You can access many options; all easy to use. Just highlight the text you want to change, click on the button you want and it's done. It works like a Word document. We suggest you keep it simple. Too much going on can get confusing for your customers. If you don't want to customize anything that's OK, just type your ad. You also have the option to add enhancements to your ad to draw extra attention from customers: Bold title, Better placement, Featured and Icons, there will be more details on these at the time of placing your ad.

• Please limit your ad to 2 puppies or adults. We support small breeders who show, test breeding stock and who sell pet dogs with spay/neuter/limited registration contracts and provide health/genetic guarantees on all dogs sold. We don't accept ads from puppy mills, dealers or backyard breeders and don't post ads for "litters".

2- Photos. You can upload photos from your computer. The photos must be 600K or smaller ( equivalent to 5" x 7", 75 dpi resolution). Photos will be re-sized automatically to display at different sizes. First it will display as a thumbnail on the browsing pages. When the viewer clicks on your ad's title your complete ad opens all by itself on a separate page. The photo will display at a nice size to view and download quickly, plus your customers will have the option to click on a prompting to see an enlarged version (if the photo you sent was larger than the size posted in your ad), or to print it.

You can post two free photos on each ad, following photos are $3 each. A good photo editing program (and free) is "Picasa", a Google service. You can download it from: http://picasa.google.com/ Instructions on how to use on same page. You will need to edit your photos for them to look the best possible. This program will help you adjust light, contrast and trim photos. And I just discovered another program, "PIXresizer" also free, which will help you do something Picasa won't, resize the photo. If your photo is very large and gets rejected when you are posting an ad, first trim it with Picasa and then make it smaller with Pixresizer. Download it from here: http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm It's very easy to use. Set it to custom resize the photo around 420 pixels on the small side, it will display at a nice size on the ad. If you still have trouble editing your photo you can email it to us, we will edit it and send it back ready for you to include in your ad. $3/per photo edit.

3- Ad Payment. There are two ways to place an ad on Sheltie Listings:

Pay by the ad -

• Pet/Show/Breeding Dogs for Sale: $15/month. Reminder: No litter ads, puppies for sale 5 weeks and older and no more than 2 dogs or puppies per ad.

• The Breeders Directory: List your kennel, update after one of your dogs had a show win, finished, you acquired a new dog, etc. $30/year.

• Studs Directory: Show off your stud, update after he sired a new litter, had a show win, went to another part of the country to visit, etc. Plenty of room to include everything. $30/year.

• Items for Sale: Lightly used dog items, $5/2 weeks OR if you are a business, $25/3 months.

• Services: Handling and Photography: $30/year.

  There are several free categories:

• Pet Dogs and Show Dogs wanted: Looking for a Sheltie, pet or show? let the world know, several breeders will reply.

• Sheltie Brags: List your dog after a win, include a photo too!

• Public Announcements: List seminars, shows, clinics and related events of interest to Sheltie enthusiasts. The following pages are free - but only available to Breeders Directory advertisers: promote your kennel, enjoy the limelight!

• Oh Baby!: List a photo record of your dog as a baby and all grown up. Useful for breeders to research growth patterns in different lines. Describe how your dog grew (steadily, on spurs, etc) you can include up to 4 photos free.

• Breeding Profiles: Would you like to tell your story as a Sheltie breeder? now you can! 10 questions, 2 photos free.

• All puppies and dogs available must be advertised on the Dogs for Sale categories.