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Entries from April 2008

Placing a custom header in your eBay Shop

April 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Lesson 5: Using a custom shop header.
You need to make sure you on on the ‘custom header only’ theme within eBay.
Go Back to wear you entered your style sheet information and place:

<img src=”http://www.mysite.com/header.jpg” alt=”eBay Header” />
You can put any kind of HTML in here to expand the header

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Tags: eBay

Note on CSS eBay Store Design and eBay Site Interference Policy

April 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Use of CSS to control your eBay shop might convene this policy, so always use with care. 
Interference or attempted interference with eBay’s web site and/or operations using any software programme, routine or activity is a serious offence and is not permitted.
Members using the eBay web site may only modify or add content in those areas [...]

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Tags: eBay

Controlling the page width of your eBay shop

April 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Lesson Four: Controlling page width
Slip into your CSS file this code:
.pagecontainer
{
width:900px;
margin:10px auto 10px auto;
}
The margin section makes sure the shop is centred.
So, bet you are wondering what the css file looks like now? I didn’t want a coloured background to my store so this is what I have so far:
/* How to style your eBay [...]

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Tags: eBay

eBay Shop Design - Playing with Nested Table Backgrounds

April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Lesson Three: Changing the backgrounds for the nested tables 
Right now, let experiment to how many times we need to mention table, to get a coloured background in different sections! Try adding these snippets of code to your css file.

table
{
background:#C0C0C0;
}
Using table once just colours the entire background within your eBay shop, including outside your shop front. [...]

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Tags: eBay

eBay Gallery View - Changing the background colours

April 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Lesson Two: Changing the background colour of your gallery view.
eBay is designed using a series of nested tables, so in order to colour various bits of the design you need to make sure you have to mention the table or td definition the correct number of times to get the desired result. This is the [...]

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Tags: eBay

eBay Shop Design for Beginners

April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

I am a beginner too, with basic CSS and HTML knowledge sorted I am going to provide you with eBay CSS manipulation nuggets to build up a more custom eBay shop.
Lesson one - Creating a border around your gallery display in your eBay shop.
Taking a look at how the ebay shop gallery display is controlled [...]

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Tags: eBay

InterCultural Elements - Get your business to Europe!

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

At channeladvisor catalyst we spoke to many great sponsors with a unique business offering. Now that the Euro is closing in on the Pound, selling to Europe will become a more attractive prospect for eBay sellers. Once you have sorted a deal with your shipipng provider, how do you effectivly communicate with ebayers that don’t [...]

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Tags: E-Business · eBay

Createyourtemplate, Channeladvisor Catalyst and Pimp my Shop

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Mathias and I under the Createyourtemplate banner moseyed on down to ChannelAdvisor Cataylst at Vinopolis in London.One of the features of Catalyst was a ‘pimp my shop’ session for ChannelAdvisor Stores, taking an existing CA customer with no current design. So let me run through the features of our tender:
Running down the design we [...]

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Tags: Auction Management · Consultancy · E-Business · eBay

Open University Web Applications Development

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

I am nearly at the end of the first module, and with assessment scores of 88%, 95% and 100% I am hopeful I get a good grade in my project! Once it is all submitted and marked I shall publish my dealings as I am proud of my line by line code writing. Being a [...]

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Tags: Web Mastering