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

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 shop using CSS by http://www.kidsontalks.com. This code is
totally free, why not check out the guide on my blog. Steal away, you can even sell it on
as there are no graphics involved.*/

/* -------- Control Page Width -------- */
.pagecontainer
{
width:900px;
margin:10px auto 10px auto;
}
/* -------- End -------- */

/* -------- 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 your eBay store is starting to take shape. The next element to look at are controlling the header. Everyone loves a nice header for their eBay shop!

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. All the normal white background, all grey.


table table
{
background:#C0C0C0;
}

Using table twice, only fills the background of your eBay shop with colour, as well as the eBay header


table table table
{
background:#C0C0C0;
}

Ah! This now leaves out the eBay header, so just the shop elements are coloured. Nothing much happens for four ‘tables’ but with 5 mentions of table:


table table table table table
{
background:#C0C0C0;
}

the promotion boxes, shop page boxes and the background to the gallery is coloured.

Add a sixth table and only the promotion boxes are coloured.


table table table table table table
{
background:#C0C0C0;
}

Seven tables and only the top promotions boxes are coloured.


table table table table table table table
{
background:#C0C0C0;
}

That is as far as you can go!

The next post will be about centring your eBay shop and fixing the width to 800px.