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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sue from Tamebay had her eBay shop designed free, and has recently reported an increase in sales of approximately 33%. Not to attribute this to one design company, as I believe GOOD eBay design in general improves the customer experience. Sue noted that her traffic had not increased, but the items per customer had.
Sue Says
‘Prior [...]

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So searching for my favourite keyword ‘eBay Design’ and my eBay blog that I created while the experiment was under way is still going strong!
Second position on google.co.uk:

and fifth on google.com

So my eBay blog with one post focusing on the keyword eBay design, has kept far up the rankings in Google. You can not pay [...]

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