Template Editing Instructions

Highlight:
Hold down your left mouse button and run it across what you would like to copy.

If you would like to copy the whole thing you are looking at then you can press

Select All
Ctrl + a (at the same time)

This will highlight the whole item.

Copy:
Highlight the area you would like to copy,
and then press

Ctrl + C (at the same time)

(For Mac users 'Apple' + C )

Paste:
click your mouse where you want the
text pasted, and then press

Ctrl + V (at the same time)

(For Mac users 'Apple' + S )

You may use any html text editor! You do not have to use Notepad.

Online HTML editors or Editing Ideas:

practiceboard.com  Recommended
photobucket editor
online-html-editor.de
coffeecup.com
nvudev.com
www.chami.com

For more ideas, search Google for "free html editor"

or just adding the html into eBay's html box when you go to list your item(s)

Simply add your html of your template into their box and edit the template by looking to the
left of the template for the tags that we have placed. The list of tags are listed below.

PLEASE NOT MICROSOFT WORD IS NOT AN HTML EDITOR!  Word will cause html errors.

Example On Editing With Notepad

Our templates are simple to edit. All you have to do is look for TAGS & Sample Text we have placed within the html. All our tags have been placed to the left of the template for easy finding. You may use edit find in your text editor. (We are using NOTEPAD for screen shots)

We recommend using NOTEPAD as your html - Text editor. It comes with all windows operating systems and is easy to use. How to open notepad in windows: Start button - Programs - Accessories - Notepad or Start Button - Click Run - type: notepad

To Find text and html in a hurry in notepad all you do is: Open your notepad txt Template file (or paste your html into notepad ) at the top of notepad you will see :  File - Edit - Format - View - Help

Under Edit you will see all the main important tools that you will need to use.

Find - Replace - select all - Copy - Paste

Find and replace makes it easy to find text and html that you need to find and replace.

Select all, Copy and Paste makes it easy to select all your txt and copy and paste it into eBay for use.

See the file Tips and Free hosting for more information and instructions

FOR EXAMPLE: To find the tag in the html for the terms you look for

<!---**** Start Auction TERMS ***--->

When you find the tag type what you want over the sample text

DELETE THIS AND TYPE TERMS

You do  this for all the auction areas.

HTML Tags To Look For

Adding Your Images

Adding Images can be tricky and a pain so If you need any help let us know.

Upload all the images you would like to use to your image host and get the URLS.
Then open the template file.

The tag for adding a Image is

<!-- IMAGES --> <p align="center"><IMG src="http://www.freeauctiondesigns.com/sampleimage1.gif"><br> </p>

Where you see our Image URL or Sample Photo:

http://www.freeauctiondesigns.com/sampleimage1.gif

is where you need place the URL of your image file.

The html:   <p align="center"> Is to center the image. If you would rather have your image to
the left or right you just type over the center text.           

 <p align="left">     or      <p align="right">

Images have to have an image html tag & host to work correctly.

You can add as many images as you would like but below we have made some example Image tags for you up to five photos.
 All u have to do is click in the box that you wish to use and copy and paste it into your html.

One Image

<!-- IMAGES --> <p align="center"><IMG src="http://www.freeauctiondesigns.com/sampleimage1.gif"><br> </p>

<!-- IMAGES --> <p align="center"><IMG src="http://www.freeauctiondesigns.com/sampleimage1.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://www.freeauctiondesigns.com/sampleimage2.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://www.freeauctiondesigns.com/sampleimage3.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://www.freeauctiondesigns.com/sampleimage4.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://www.freeauctiondesigns.com/sampleimage5.gif"><br> </p>

Fonts And Sizes

If you would like to change the color and fonts of the text all you need to is is look look for the term:

font-family

and you will see the font name there. You can change the font to what you would like.
You should keep in mind that if the person viewing the text does not have that font on their PC then they
will see their default font. You should use a font that comes with windows.

For A List Of Windows Default Fonts: microsoft fonts

For the font size look for the term : font-size