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Tutorial
for Using Ebay Auction Templates in Turbo Lister
Please note that this
tutorial has been specifically written for users of
Reall EZ Designs auction templates. Although I would
assume the same steps would also work for other templates
as well.
Two important things to know. One is that none of
the graphics will appear within the template until it
is online. I host all of the templates graphics for
you. Secondly, you will need to upload your product
photo/s first to your image host before you will be
able to insert the link into the template.
1. Open Turbo Lister and
choose 'Create New'.
2. Choose the format you
wish to list in.
3. Enter your title and
select the category.
4. For Step 2 of 3, select
change photo host.
5. Check the box for 'Your
own web hosting' and check the box "the item will
have a picture indlcued in the description. Save for
future listings (just so you don't have to do this each
time? > OK.
6. Back now on the screen
for Step 2 of 3, click the option to use HTML view.
7. Now copy and paste the
entire HTML for the template from your file into the
area provided.
If you don't know how to copy html. Simply open the
template using Notepad. Start Menu>Program Files>Accessories>
Notepad>File>Open>then browse to the folder
in My Documents where you have saved the template to
and Open it. Then go Edit>Select All>Edit>Copy.
The html will now be copied and as long as you don't
copy anything else in the meantime when you right click
your mouse in TL>then select>Paste, the HTML will
appear.
8. Now you will need to
scroll down through all of the html code until you find
a tag like this:-
<!-- Replace the IMG
SRC below with your own product photos link -->
9. Simply replace my img
src with your own. The link to the photograph has to
be absolute. This means that you need to include the
"http://www" part of the link as well. The
" " also need to be right at the start and
right at the end like mine. If you can't find the tag,
my image source files for templates sample photos always
end "/productpic1.gif" etc (see above as an
example).
You can use .jpg or .gif files
for your images/photographs. If you wish to add more
than one photo for a product, you would use the <br>
tag at the end of the <img src> line of coding.
This is an example of how the code would appear for
two photographs:-
<img src="http://www.yourphotohost.com/images/productpic1.gif"
width="400" height="300">
<br>
<br>
<img src="http://www.yourphotohost.com/images/productpic2.gif"
width="400" height="300">
10. In the "Design
View" option, you can then just simply type over
the text I have there and replace it with your own title,
product description, shipping & order info etc.
11. To check how your template
is coming along at any time you can click on the "Preview"
tab to see it. Just remember that none of the graphics
nor photographs will appear offline. When you're happy
with it choose NEXT.
Good luck and enjoy!
Best wishes,
Rebecka Patterson-Seagrave
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