Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

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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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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I am a beginner too, with basic CSS and HTML knowledge sorted I am going to provide you with eBay CSS manipulation nuggets to build up a more custom eBay shop.
Lesson one - Creating a border around your gallery display in your eBay shop.
Taking a look at how the ebay shop gallery display is controlled [...]

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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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Redundancy just before Christmas is not pleasant as the job market is not at its best, specially if you have had no warning.
As well as training to be an eBay education specialist I have secured consultancy and web development in the last few weeks of December to take me though to January.
In pure on-line entrepreneurial [...]

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MIK Fun shopping by createyourtemplate
Still not sure I subscribe to splash pages for an eBay shop front as it might put off some buyers. But the creative is fantastic. I just watched it in awe!

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