And does not design your's?? BTW, Lexie, you will find ebay aol chat much friendlier than the cafe, I think.

If you're looking to enhance your listings, try TalkinAuction.com. I'm impressed!

Are you their salesman?

Good grief!!!! MB, plezzzzz!!

Heh, more like their owner. Surpised he has time to be off spamming message boards. He's a good customer though, over 100+ snipes placed. He must need to generate some extra $ to pay for all those snipes

I bet a lot of us could use some extra bucks to pay for all the stuff we get.

"Shop" and My Snipes

You can use free-backgrounds.com and find nice backgrounds which are not too busy or flashy.

It is fun to be able to use HTML to make your eBay listings more flashy. I feel this can be done without going overboard and still presenting a unique and more "fun" listing for viewers. Some items may just need a little spicing up for presentation, like when we dress up for picture day or studio pictures.

Check out this page to see free eBay hints and tips to help you out. If you have questions about HTML graphics, etc., that is a good place to start. You can contact me if you have any other questions I may be able to answer. I'm happy to help if I can! I was there once too.

Regards,
eBay user: my_own_website
<http://www.ebaysavings.com>

...all of those flashing lights, music (especially because every time you come back to or change your screen in that auction listing, up pops that disgusting brown media player window and everything halts until you do something with it), and, yes, that cursor trailing text. My personal preference is a plain listing with just the basic information. If I want to watch a video, I can turn on the tv. Gee, am I venting too much?

Dave

Dave

"The waist is a terrible thing to mind."

Gee Dave,
Did you just come back from one of those listings with all that stuff??

I went to one the other day that had this annoying little box that scrolled up and down the page while I was trying to read ...it said..."click here for sellers other listing"...CRAP!!! that was annoying. For that reason along I DIDNT open the sellers other listings and closed the page LESS is BEST!!

Lexie

Music on a listing is my BIGGEST pet-peeve -- as soon as it starts, I hit the "Back" button as fast as I can! I once tried to help a friend design a web-store -- I should have known when she insisted on music that it wasn't going to work out...

I don't mind wall-paper as long as it's not too cutsey. Keep it to the theme of the auction (like cactuses in the background of my favorite sellers' auctions) but make sure it's not busy or distracting, and remember that "cool" colors (blue, green) tend to fade into the distance, which is good for a background, while "Hot" colors (red, yellow) jump to the foreground, which is distracting.

This seller >>JIIMZ<< has some of my favorite backgrounds.

I'm glad to hear others don't like the scrolly things. They make me nauseous!!
The other thing I don't like is music on the auction pages. Or when they use dark colors and you can't read it.

Shirley, I even find that auction hard to read. Too much stuff behind the description.

Sorry but you lost me at three minutes and I am a cactus lover. The same thing happened last night, I tried to load a site to buy a cake from Colin Street Bakery. Several high res cake photos on the site took 5 minutes to open. I was so mad I disconnected and called them on the phone and ranted. They think all buyers have a high speed connection and a razor sharp monitor - maybe someday...
Instead of a site counter it should count the number of disconnects before the site gets loaded and maybe they would realize they need to simplify the opening graphics. Then half the site has drop out white letters over light pastel backgrounds - they make it very hard to give them business.
My absolute Pet Peeve is 1/2 com - if you buy a tape from them they INSIST on showing you pictures and prices on 12 like items before letting you check out..Very Pushy I only go there now as a last resort. & I don't see them changing - it's making them sales.. mory

As a web developer, I use the 14 second rule. If the page can't load in 14 seconds using a 56K modem, it's too big and I re-work it. I make an exception for some flash animations, but not those stupid splash screens.

On pages other than the home page, longer load times are acceptable, IF they tell me to expect a delay. I use a cable modem at home (10x the speed of modem), and at work I have 2 T-1's at my disposal (hmm, where's the *evil grin smiley* when you need it). So if a page takes me any more than 5 seconds to load, it's too long!

I better get off my soapbox, before I get started on standards compliance!



(edit)Hey, my animation has a white background! I better fix it.(/edit)

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And these coz I like em



<<you have to imagine this one going "muuuua ha ha ha ha"

Lexie

Mrs. M, you're right, it is kind of busy. If it weren't cactuses, I would probably be complaining instead of complimenting! (oh, well...)

Sorry about the slow load, Mory. That's an excellent reason NOT to use wallpaper, if it affects load time on slower computers. Also to crop out any part of the picture you don't need, and save it in a format that makes for as small a file-size as possible.

This particular seller always puts up lots of great pictures -- I have a fast connection, so I love it, but it's not so long ago that I was in your place.

It wasn't terrible, Shirley, but I like the main part of the screen "smooth" and any decor around the sides. Probably someone else will like it the other way!

Good design pays dividends - I buy low from people who just scrawl out a description with minimal punctuation and typos then, using my dreamweaver template, sell for a profit. Buyers get more info., it looks professional and I get their money.

R2

Hmmm, is this forum dying a slow death?