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Click on Register on the right hand side to open the Registration page.

You choose your own username and password, provide the email address that is linked to your username and where the confirmation email is sent for you to activate.  (Check in your junk folder if this confirmation email doesn't arrive almost immediately.)

If your firstname and surname is not appropriate because you are registering as a business, you can still use your name if you will be managing content or you can use something like "Guesthousename" and "Marketing".

If you do not receive the confirmation email, you can have it resent by trying to log in with your username and password.  The only reason that you may not be receiving it is that you entered a different email address or one with an error.  (Typing .coza instead of .co.za or typing a comma when there should be a full stop are the most common, so please check your email address carefully.)

If you find that you can't login and you have already registered, it could be that you requested a new password on your previous visit to CapeInfo.  Click on the Forgot login link that appears after you have clicked the Login/Registration link.

If it's your password that you've mislaid, a new password is generated and emailed to you.  You can change your password again if you click on the User Profile link.

If you need to change any of your registration details - firstname, surname, email address or password - this is where you change it.  You cannot change your username.

The User Profile link appears in the Log in panel.  You need to be logged in before you can access your User Profile.

At the bottom of your User Profile page, you will see tabs for CapeInfo Directory and Forum - if you have any content there.  This is a quick way to access your content in those sections.

Full Entry

This costs R550 a year and no commissions or click-through fees are charged.  It includes

• full contact details,
• hyperlinked email and website addresses,
• an almost unlimited description,
• up to 12 photographs in the image gallery,
• a logo on the detailed page and either a logo or icon image on the category page,
• your location on a Google map
• special offers
• affiliated organisations

Basic Entry

This costs R150 a year and no commissions or click-through fees are charged.  It includes all the features of a Full Entry excepting the image gallery and map locations. (These are also, therefore, not located in the maps showing listed entries.)

Nightsbridge "Free" Entry

This is only available to Nightsbridge clients who offer online accommodation booking.  CapeInfo only charges you 10% for all bookings which are made through CapeInfo.

Your contact details are not shown and potential guests can only make online bookings through the Nightsbridge booking engine.  Guests cannot contact you or make any enquiries.  You are strongly recommended to choose the Nightsbridge full listing.

Nightsbridge Full Entry

This costs R350 a year and includes full contact details and hyperlinked email and website addresses.  Guests can contact you directly bypassing the Nightsbridge booking engine.  We find that most South Africans booking accommodation prefer to contact establishments by phone or email before making a booking.

You must have registered and be logged in before you can do anything.

We recommend that you get the basics online as quickly as possible - it really only takes a couple of minutes - and then spend more time fine-tuning your content later to make sure that you attract business. Few people get their content right in the first attempt.

There are three steps:

• Click on the Directory tab in CapeInfo's navigation bar and then click on Add Entry.
• Select the entry option you want by clicking on the appropriate button.
• Complete the form that appears next and submit when you are finished.

This is if your business already appears in CapeInfo's Directory.

You need to have registered and be logged in to edit your content.  Your Directory page needs to have already been added to your username.  If you added your business yourself, this will all have been done and you can proceed.

If you didn't - it may have been added for you - please make sure you are registered and have logged in, and  "claim" your page by clicking the link at the bottom.  You will be informed when your claim has been processed.

When you are logged in, you will see an "Edit" link on your page.  (Other visitors to CapeInfo cannot see this.)  Click on that to edit your page.

The quickest way to get to a page/s linked to your User Profile is to click on "User Profile" in the login panel, click on the CapeInfo Directory tab at the bottom of the page, and then click Edit on the page/s you have access to.

You may encounter problems with the appearance or layout of your content if you copy and paste from applications like Microsoft Word or other websites.  Copying from these applications also copies all sorts of other hidden code which can also make your page unreadable.

If you have problems, you need to open your computer's basic text editor - Notepad or something similar.  Paste the content that you are copying into that editor - the extra code is ignored.  And then copy the content in your text editor to paste into the text boxes in the Directory form.

You can add an optional logo image to the top of your detailed page.

The optional icon image is probably one of the most important images and you should be sure to get this online as soon as possible.  It appears in the category and search listings of entries, and helps to attract the reader's attention to your entry.  It should encourage them to click through to read more.

To change either the logo or icon image that you have already loaded, you need to delete the current image and save the page, and only then load a new image.

Your map location can be set in one of three ways:

• Typing your address in the Google map address box
• Entering your GPS co-ordinates in digital format only
• Dragging the marker in the map to your location

Click Read more for tips for using your address to generate your GPS location or to convert Degrees, Minutes & Seconds to Decimal Degrees.

You can add your business in up to five categories - but these must all be your primary business.  Shopping nearby does not qualify you to be in a retail category.

Some categories - like Accommodation - have sub-categories and in those cases you have to submit your business in the sub-category rather than the main category.  Categories with sub-categories are identified with a + prior to the category name.  You open the main category by clicking on the + sign.

Select the category or sub-category you want to be included under and then move it to the right hand box using the arrows button.

GUEST HOUSES & B&B : A converted house adapted to accommodate overnight guests or a purpose built facility.  A guest house is run as a commercial operation and is often owner-managed.  The owner/manager either lives off-site, or in a separate area within the property.  B&B accommodation is usually provided in a family (private) home and the owner/manager lives in the house or on the property.   A guest house has public areas which are for the exclusive use of the guest while in a B&B the guest shares the public areas with the host family.

SELF-CATERING : A House, cottage, chalet, bungalow, flat, studio, apartment, villa, houseboat, tents or similar accommodation where facilities and equipment are provided for guests to cater for themselves.  The facilities cater for the maximum advertised number of residents the facility can accommodate.

BACKPACKERS : A Backpacker or hostelling establishment, catering for transient guests (traveling public), is an accommodation facility that provides communal facilities, including dormitories yet may offer a range of alternative sleeping arrangements.

FARM STAY : Any type of accommodation (guest house, self-catering, backpacking) where the accommodation is on a working farm.

LODGES & COUNTRY HOUSES : A Lodge is an accommodation facility located in natural surroundings which vary from rustic to luxury accommodation.  Rates usually include an experience offered at the lodge, for example, game drives, battlefield tours, etc.  Food and beverage services are usually provided for all meals.  A Country House is a large Guest House, usually situated in natural, peaceful surroundings such as near a nature reserve, forest, lake, etc. It offers all the services of a hotel, including dinner.

NATURE RESERVES : Any type of accommodation (hotel, guest house, self-catering, backpacking, camping) where the accommodation is within a proclaimed or private nature reserve.

HOTELS : A Hotel provides accommodation to the traveling public, has a reception area and offers at least a "breakfast room" or communal eating area. Hotels usually makes food and beverage services available to a guest.

You can add up to 12 images to CapeInfo's image gallery in the Directory.  We suggest that you add images in multiples of three - 3, 6, 9 or 12 - to keep the pages neat.

The maximum image size that can be added is 5Mb, which should be more than adequate for almost all users.  Images are resized automatically to about 900 pixels wide to fit on a computer screen.  If your photos are smaller than 900 pixels wide, you won't be getting the best impact from your images.

We do recommend that you include captions to each photograph.  Readers are looking for as much information as they can get, and Google will not index your images if there is no caption.

After you have added your images, you can go back afterwards to edit them - changing the order and adding/editing captions.

If you don't have the time or are technically challenged, CapeInfo can add your content to the Directory for a fee of R150.00

Please click Read more to request this service.

Placing classified ads is free, but you need to have registered and be logged in.

For national ads, select the appropriate category on the entry page and you'll see a "Post" tab.  That takes you to the form which needs to be completed.

For regional ads, click on the regional link and choose the location first and then the appropriate category.