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New contenders in the eBay design space…
Lots of new eBay shop/listing designers popping up so here is a list of the new finds:
http://www.imagelimited.co.uk/ebay-listing-store-design/ – no examples yet, do you have one?
http://www.kookiweb.co.uk/ – a few basic eBay design examples.
http://www.meanpixel.com/ebay-store-listing-design.htm – more ‘advanced’ look.
http://www.agenius-marketing.com/ebay-store-design.html for basic store/listing design.
eBay design seems to be the new thing to do…
New Hairfreax eBay Shop and Listing Design Part 1 – the Pretty Bit
OK, so I was a bit ambitious with exactly how much time I was going to be able to spend on the coding bit, but I got the designs done!
eBay Shop frame
eBay Listing Template Design
The actual coding part will come, I am slicing it up and coding it as we speak so hopefully I will get the time to play with the new stores experience before catalyst. As you can see I am not the ‘best designer’ in the world, but I will do for my small projects and illustrations.
Edited to add: Apparently my early work in eBay design css inspired these guys and they are now fully compliant with NSE. I will review at a later date. http://smartzstores.co.uk/
CreatemyStore – Your public awaits
They really do:
http://kidsontalks.com/2008/06/29/ebay-design-the-copycats-rise-and-how-to-decide/
This post is open for fresh comments. I am getting emails asking for your contact details, post your contact number here and face the music.
http://www.createmystore.co.uk (so you analytics software will tell you of the new link…)
eBay Designers feel the ‘pinch’
1193 days
We are in a rough recession and only the strong will survive. It seems as though the arena of eBay design is starting to suffer with the departure of Frooition’s Managing Director Grenville Whelan.
Frooition has suffered with redundancies in the last 18 months loosing approximately 7 of its members with Gren making 8.
If Frooition does go under then my 3 clients who use their design will loose it, just as they are about to pay up for the shops upgrade. I already have concerns over the stores working with the European eBay sites.
Worrying times. Looks like I am going to have to focus on creating a compliant store design (which will all be open source) that fits in the new eBay experience and re-work. Templates too.
I do wonder where I am going to get this time from. I suppose I have always known the danger of renting design, it just comes at a busy period when I am clocking up 13 hour days.
eBay Shop Design – Gallery Background Image
1420 days
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 going to replace it with:
td.gallery
{
width:360px;
height:130px;
background:url(http://www.kidsontalks.com/ebaybg.jpg) no-repeat !important;
}
/* making certain backgrounds transparent */
span.ebay table,
.pagecontainer table table table,
.pagecontainer table table tr,
.pagecontainer table td
{
background:transparent;
}
Notice that adding this section of code, the background to the promotion boxes/search box and the categories disappear (we shall deal with the promo boxes and search box in a later post) so to make sure you category background image stays in place replace:
td.category {
height:35px;
width:180px;
border-top:1px solid #FFCCFF;
background: url(http://www.kidsontalks.com/ebaybutton.jpg) no-repeat;
margin:5px;
}
with:
td.category {
height:35px;
width:180px;
border-top:1px solid #FFCCFF;
background: url(http://www.kidsontalks.com/ebaybutton.jpg) no-repeat !important;
margin:5px;
}
the !important tag tell eBay that your CSS change is WAY more important and should be obeyed at all costs.
I also added this nugget to add a nice border around my gallery:
table.ebItemlist
{
width:770px !important;
border-left:1px #FFCCFF solid;
border-right:1px #FFCCFF solid;
border-bottom:1px #FFCCFF solid;
}
Please as always read the disclaimer
Just to complete, the section now looks like:
/* -------- Control Gallery List -------- */
td.gallery
{
width:360px;
height:130px;
background:url(http://www.kidsontalks.com/ebaybg.jpg) no-repeat !important;
}
/* making certain backgrounds transparent */
span.ebay table,
.pagecontainer table table table,
.pagecontainer table table tr,
.pagecontainer table td
{
background:transparent;
}
/*Nice border around gallery*/
table.ebItemlist
{
width:770px !important;
border-left:1px #FFCCFF solid;
border-right:1px #FFCCFF solid;
border-bottom:1px #FFCCFF solid;
}
/* -------- End -------- */
You can see the full css file here: eBay Store Design with CSS and to see the changes to my eBay store as we go along visit : http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Hairfreax
