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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

html tips for ebay sellers. All you need to know about html code

When I first started really getting into ebay I decided that I was going to teach myself html. I purchased a couple of books on the subject and practiced and read and practiced some more. Then I realized that learning code is completely unnecessary. Well, if your business is designing templates or websites or something like that, it might be necessary for you, but for the rest of us....not necessary.
There are just too many programs and free websites out there at our disposal that write the code for us. If you just type in "WYSIWYG html free" in google and it will come up with 593,000 results!
WYSIWYG is the key. This means "what you see is what you get". Even ebay's SYI form is WYSIWYG. You may even have an html editor on your computer already. I did and didn't even realize it. Microsoft frontpage is part of some MS Office bundles and it is an html editor.
So, once you've found your editor all you need to do is grab your code.
Easy. Highlight your code then click the control button and C at the same time. Then go to wherever you want your code to be placed and click control and V at the same time.
tip: Make sure that wherever you are placing it is in the mode that accepts html and not in the wysiwyg mode.
If you have a code that you like and will use over and over, copy it into a notepad file. I'm pretty sure that all computers have notepad (It is under the accessories tab in 'programs'). Notepad is perfect for saving html files because it is simple and doesn't try to reconfigure the code to save it.
Honestly, that really is all you need to know about html! Copy, Paste and save in notepad.
And then, if for some reason you mess up your code and can't fix it, go to the html discussion board on ebay. All the experts hang out there and if you ask nicely they will fix your code for you..... no charge.
So you see, the key here is to let someone (or something) do the work for you. You have other things to worry about.

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