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Does anybody use additional software?.....

annieannieMember
To do their ebay pages? I'm thinking about trying something to make my pages a little better looking. Bigger picture and some pizzaz. I'm not too smart about all that stuff tho so it has to be very easy! Any suggestions? I see Andale and a couple of others mentioned.
I'm just a (patched up) Raggedy Ann in a Barbie doll world!
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L lvtosnipeMember
I've used Andale too, but I quit and just use the prefab pages through ebay. As a seller it's cute, but as a buyer trudging through auctions, I prefer no nonsense pages.

I have a really fast cable connection, so now it's okay but using dial up - all that fancy stuff takes awhile to load up and if it didn't load fast enough for me I'd skip it and find another auction. Also, one thing I hate is when the cursor changes to little stars and scrolling messages on the bottom...

Just a thought - sometimes simple is better!
annieannieMember
Yea, I don't like the little scrolling trails or music either. I mostly would like larger pictures. I think the new ebay setup does have a bit larger pics than it used to doesn't it?
But then, if it doesn't stop raining I'm going to be out of business anyway. We got another 2 inches in the past 24 hours. I don't even want to look at my iris beds. They were just starting to look good again. I'm sure the ducky is swimming real well. uggggg Frown
region2region2Member
I use a web-design tool (Dreamweaver) to design the page, putting the info into seperate boxes (description, photos, small print etc) with the description at the immediate top. I then copy the whole page (from <body> to </body> for those that know HTML) into the advert. Looks good and it works.

I also add in extra stuff (eg. history of a china pattern, easily found on WWW), anything to get more info. to the buyer. I also add in keywords with common misspellings (eg. wedgewood for wedgwood, guage or gauge etc) so that the item gets found more easily. The result - I often buy cheaply from someone who types their advert in as a big chunk of text and sell high (as much as 5 times higher for the same item).

KISS (keep it simple, stupid!) applies, no big pictures (link to them from thumbnails) and no animated graphics (!) but the more info your provide, the higher the price!

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N ncxlightningMember
I have been lazy lately but I sometimes use Frontpage. You can use it just like dreamweaver but it has a much simpler point and click way about it.

Basically I make a template that has the look I'm going for then I save it. When I want to sell something I open the template type in my description in the space I made and then copy and paste the html(works Great).

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