First, I want to make my auction look like my buddies, he uses Vendio for his auctions as well. (but wont tell me how he does it because we are kind of competing)
Here is a link to one of his current auctions: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6236&item=2425394728
1)I cant get the text like his, sure I can change the size and font, but he has different colors of text thruout his ads.
2) When I type the description in the box it comes up all scrunched together...not laid out like his with bullett points etc.
Is he using the "embedded layout" function, and what is it? how do you use it.
3) also I cant find a picture layout like his? one on top and thn the rest below the description.
posted on July 27, 2003 12:56:18 PM new
Hi Mattsaddress,
Your friend has written a lot of HTML for his listing. To create a similar look through the template system, you would probably need to experiment with combining different backgrounds and such to make a template that you are happy with. Are the formatting issues you are having, a problem with the template system yourself? Or is it just getting it to look similar to your friend's?
The Template Workshop allows you to make the whole description a different color. If you want to change specific words within your description to other colors, here are the tags you can use in item description (on the eBay create listing page):
<font color="red">your text here</font>
You can use other colors besides red -- I just used that as an example.
The bullet points can be written out in HTML. If you want to just have line breaks you can use <br> or you can use <p> to separate your text into paragraphs. Here is a link you may find useful:
This is the link to eBay's Text Tips page. You can get basic HTML tags from here, as well as the tags to create bullet points.
Lastly, regarding layout -- the embedded layout is mainly meant for imported auctions. What you can't do with that layout is use the Attach Image feature so you might want to pick a different layout.
