posted on July 13, 2004 07:15:05 PM new
..there is a vendio announcement under sales manager that advises they[v] have contacted ebay...maybe they can get thru to them..
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"...replacing every <p> with a <br>,..", etc.
what happens when you want a paragraph..have use a br and p?
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tanx,mot
[ edited by myoldtoy on Jul 13, 2004 07:15 PM ]
Are you saying that the font style/color/size will continue to the next paragraph if we use a couple of <br>'s in a row instead of the <p>? That's the first way I wrote html. I feel like I'm back in kindergarten.
Oops, I just now read the announcement under Sales Mgr. Yes, use some <br>'s instead of <p>.
[ edited by meadowlark on Jul 13, 2004 08:38 PM ]
posted on July 13, 2004 09:44:46 PM new
OK, I finally got my listing back to normal and may God bless those of you who have a ton listed right now...I only have 1. I went in my listing and revised it from ebay. I changed all the <p> to <br><br> and the all my tags that I used for font sizing <h1>, <h2>, <h3> I changed to <font size= "4">, <font size= "5"> and so on. You'll have to play with the sizing a bit and just hit the view description every once in a while to see what you're doing.
Hopefully this won't be the way they want HTML listings from now on......
posted on July 17, 2004 05:51:56 AM new
meadowlark: yesterday vendio posted "ebay's working feverishly to correct."
this am, my six auctions back to normal. noticed because the font size had also reverted on my sellers page. and thankfully, the 4 i had loaded with changed html are still okay also!
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posted on July 17, 2004 08:55:12 AM new
Now after 4 years of listing eBay decides that it is time for a change. Change is not good for me I use <br> and that was fine but I used <font size=h1> and that didn't work. It looks really stupid in my auctions. So if I use <font size =+3> I should be fine. Is that what you are saying?
I am not going to change anything now. I wonder what buyers think. Maybe they just don't realize all the changes sellers have to go through to get decent looking auctions.
posted on July 17, 2004 09:12:31 AM new
Libra: please read thread before you bother with the auction url...the auction is current, and is as i have run since 911..its all html as fontsize+2, +3, etc., with <P>< <BR> as only bbeginners use[me]...
the ebay changes blew my auctions to H*** in a handbasket..ittybitty fonts, no bold, no paragraphs, no breaks.
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if you view the auction,
it is back as it was supposed to be[as of last night].
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and d***, i should not give advice to anybody, but tomwill says his are now okay...so if you didnt change anything, DONT; AND, maybe, JUUUUUST MAYBEE they are all okay...i
hope so!!!!
posted on July 18, 2004 11:03:15 PM new
I am sorry, but after a bottle of 2 Buck Chuck et al. I am not really getting the guts of this. Is eBay trying to get Vendio out of the loop? I am sorry, but I really don't get this. Please explain the problem to me in plane English.
Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine
posted on July 19, 2004 12:05:11 AM new
If you don't list through Vendio and do all your listings through ebay, I think the problem is fixed. it looks like what youneed to do now is add your HTML AFTER you click on the HTML tab on the description. It worked for me. Maybe they really are listening sometimes
posted on July 21, 2004 11:19:16 PM new
Hi all. It's Adele's son. Some of you might remember me from many moons ago. For those of you who don't, I worked daily HTML production at one of those fabled dot-coms that went under when the bubble burst. I was coding HTML by hand 8 hours/day. (Yeah, I know. It's a sickness.) So I can't let this one go...
[RANT ON]
eBay could very easily resolve all of these headaches by simply letting HTML act the way it's supposed to!
HTML is a picky and inflexible programming language enough without somebody decided to toy with it. Anybody writing code by hand knows that they absolutely HAVE to able to control how the their code is going to behave. For example, if I want to start a new paragraph in an obnoxious arial, red, 18 point font, I could combine the whole mess into:
<*Font face=arial size=18 color=red>
It's simply arrogant of *any* company to ignores these practices. If eBay refuses to accept conventions, then there's absolutely NO reason for them to even give an option of manual coding. They might as well force everybody to use their dummy-proof editor.
So again I ask, WHAT GIVES? How in the world do they justify this??? I can't think of a single defensible reason--or an indefensible one, for that matter.
posted on July 22, 2004 04:02:03 AM new
So, not to be dense, but if I list through Vendio all my words are going to be in that littly bitty print? Why doesn't it work the way it used to and will it again. I really like to list through Vendio and not have to learn HTML, although it may be time!
