posted on March 18, 2006 05:43:49 PM new
I use custom listing templates through Vendio and I like the idea of the new ebay listing frame with the navigation bar in my listings but some of them show in the screen and some of them have to be scrolled - how can I make them so that all the listings fit on the screen without the need to scroll - I feel some people don't like to go to the trouble
[ edited by dd731 on Mar 18, 2006 05:47 PM ]
There is actually currently a very similar discussion in a different forum.
Please take a look at the discussion thread "Templates Need to Be Resized" that is currently in the "Sales Manager Merchandising Edition and Image Hosting" forum.
In the list of image layout options, the ones that will most likely look the best would be the 'stacked on top' or 'stacked on bottom.'
To give you an idea of what this looks like, here is a sample item with the left nav bar where the images used are displayed at their full size:
Note how the width of the images being displayed is going to force this template to be scrolled on any small monitors (or screen settings.) - while I could see this whole ad without scrolling before I made the window this small, users with smaller monitors would need to scroll to view it properly. In this case the template itself won't play into how this is being displayed.
This next example is using the same template with the left nav and the same images, except these are being scaled down with the 'click to enlarge' option on them. This is also a template I setup with the 'stacked on top' image layout selected.
Note that while I did make the window very small, the template has resized itself to fit into this window without the need to scroll to see the rest of the ad.
Again, you can change the image layout via the My Account page, under the Custom Templates link. You can enable the 'click to enlarge' feature for your images via the Global Preferences page.
If you prefer to display your images at their full size, but your images are a bit too wide to dispay this way - note that you can use a tool built into Windows XP to upload your images to Vendio and resize them in bulk at the same time. This would allow you to use your full sized images in the ads (using the 'stacked on top/bottom layout) and still avoid the need to scroll left/right.
You can download that tool via the Image Hosting page, via the XPress Publisher link on the submenu.
Let us know if you have any other questions on how to set this up.
Regards,
Christopher
