Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

Right then, so my mind is in tip top condition for Catalyst with respects to the latest and greatest developments in eBay store design I am finally this weekend going to convert that Hairfreax PSD into a matching store frame on the new stores experience.
Promising full store compliance lets look at the key rules broken [...]

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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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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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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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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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