Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

OK, so my DNS servers died the death yesterday so my eBay shop had no CSS. It looked fine, functioned fine, just an eBay shop.
Which made me wonder, and remember that not all CSS driven eBay shops will come off so lightly if the style sheet is pooped.
It will always be on the last trading [...]

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Well, keeping my eye out on the eBay Shop Design front there seems to be a lot of eBay Shops and templates all with the same layout. The re-skinning with CSS effect (close to what I am talking about with the DIY eBay Shop Design with CSS series, but with way better graphics and better [...]

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As I rubbished the promo boxes with the last CSS changes I thought I should get back to them ASAP.
First list on the agenda was to get rid of those crazy ‘corner’ images for the promo boxes:
table#PromoListView table table img {
display: none;
}
but that also kills the promo box images (and the slider) so now I [...]

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We looked at changing the gallery background using css but now we want to move on and replace it with an image.
The section is currently:
/* ——– Control Border on Gallery List ——– */
td.gallery
{
border:1px #FF00FF solid;
}
/* ——– End ——– */
/* ——– Control Background on Gallery List ——– */
td.gallery table td
{
background:#FFCCFF;
}
/* ——– End ——– */
Now we are [...]

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all over eBays ‘User generated content‘ woes.
Key content from this post:
What’s Changing on eBay: In the short-term, we’re moving listing descriptions to a different domain. Descriptions will be displayed by using an iFrame within the View Item page. Our intent is to ensure that user-generated content won’t have access to eBay site content. We’re currently [...]

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I thought that my first API integration would be with eBay or Channeladvisor API, maybe a little ambitious on reflection, but working with Google Maps API is nice for a Javascript beginner.

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A pain for a lot of third party tools like ChannelAdvisor, Marketworks advisor what not and Kyozou.  Auctionbytes has brought this to our attention.
eBay announced it would phase out third-party checkout by this time next year. Third-party vendors help sellers list on eBay, and some offer sellers use of checkout systems to up-sell and cross-sell [...]

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Its true….new players on the UK scene are http://createmystore.co.uk/ and their designs are looking good.
Even though their is a credit crunch in the UK it should not stop sensible investment in your eBay business. eBay design can provide various functions, from just aesthetics to brand new functionality which can be added.
On the net your design, [...]

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Well, after straying away from eBay as my main business as using it a to basically pimp a brand and e-commerce site, I have come full circle to building up an eBay presence again. It might be to do with the fees for core listings. They are lower, and you loose less to eBay:

Price From
Price [...]

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OK, I did promise ebay javascript, but I wanted to do a little more on eBay Shop CSS.
So I want to give my store categories a pink background:
table#StoreCategories {
background-color:#FFCCFF;
}
and say then, I want to have the links in a different pink:
table#StoreCategories a {
color:#FF00FF;
text-decoration:none;
}
then I want to space out the categories and give them a pink [...]

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