Making eBay listings in Dreamweaver

Can Dreamweaver be used to make your listings on eBay be more
attractive ?
What can it do and what can it not do, could you just make a
page in Dreamweaver and copy and paste into the description on the
eBay listings ?
any help would be great thanks

grahamdvddvd wrote:
> Can Dreamweaver be used to make your listings on eBay be
more attractive ?
> What can it do and what can it not do, could you just
make a page in
> Dreamweaver and copy and paste into the description on
the eBay listings ?
> any help would be great thanks
>
I can perhaps help a little...
I did this once a little while ago. As I remember, you have
to strip out
the body, head and script tags from your file, as Ebay puts
those in.
Try copying everything between into the html box they give
you.
Hope that makes sense, I am working from memory and so this
may not be
exactly right, but hopefully will get you on the right path.
Harvey

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Dreamweaver to eBay listings

Hello all,
I'm new to Dremweaver and to HTML, I'm in the process of
learning Dreamweaver,
a beginners course with emphasize on design.
I've read all the threads I've found here on the subject of
transferring html code from Dreamweaver to ebay listings.
My question is: is there a way to embed css, or style without
the use of css, in the body of the page so that
by copying and pasting anything in between <body> to
</body> to my ebay listing will duplicate my design.
If my question is very green, It's because I'm green.
I read a lot of blogs about people designing wonderful ebay
listings with their html editor and then copy/pasting
from but not included <body> to </body>, so I
wonder what happend to style ? without it the page is very simple.
I've followed a one year old thread within this forum, and it
sugested manually exchanging all the style tags with style, wich
seems to be a very tedious job even after I'll understand it.
Many thanks in advance

AdobeDimko,
Sorry for being a little too brief. Here's what I am
suggesting for HTML
that needs to be pasted into eBay:
1. Put all of your styles in an external style sheet
2. Link your CSS in the body (not head) so eBay will see the
styles
3. Make the style sheet a Design-time Style Sheet so DW will
see the styles
The benefit of this is that both eBay and DW will see your
styles, but
they are in a single location, so they are easier to manage,
share, and
edit.
HTH,
Randy
> I know that external style sheet contains the actual
styles of the html page
> and need to be reffered to in the header, so pasting the
body to ebay's listing
> will result in unknown css references.
>
> In line styles don't need external style sheet and don't
have any required
> references in the header so copy and past from
<body> to </body> to ebay
> listing is safe.
>
> You sugested to attach the external style sheet to my
> page as a Design-time Style Sheet so that DW will render
the css,
>
> Can you elborate a bit more on what will be accomplished
that way ?
>
> To begin with I design a new page with an external css
file, what does
> selecting that css file as a Design-time Style Sheet
accomplish ?

Firefox 4.0 not displaying ebay listings correctly. Vers 3.6 OK

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<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
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<tr>
    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="138" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="52" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="14" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="93" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="16" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
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    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="125" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
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</tr>
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    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="18" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="19" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="43" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan="13"><img src="ebay_r5_c1_s1.jpg" alt="" name="ebay_r5_c1_s1" width="800" height="497" border="0" id="ebay_r5_c1_s1" /></td>
    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="497" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan="7"><img src="ebay_r6_c1_s1.jpg" alt="" name="ebay_r6_c1_s1" width="401" height="339" border="0" id="ebay_r6_c1_s1" /></td>
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    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="339" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan="7"><img src="ebay_r7_c1_s1.jpg" alt="" name="ebay_r7_c1_s1" width="401" height="353" border="0" id="ebay_r7_c1_s1" /></td>
    <td colspan="6"><img src="ebay_r7_c8_s1.jpg" alt="" name="ebay_r7_c8_s1" width="399" height="353" border="0" id="ebay_r7_c8_s1" /></td>
    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="353" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan="13"><img src="ebay_r8_c1_s1.jpg" alt="" name="ebay_r8_c1_s1" width="800" height="559" border="0" id="ebay_r8_c1_s1" /></td>
    <td><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="559" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<map name="m_ebay_r2_c1_s1" id="m_ebay_r2_c1_s1">
    <area shape="rect" coords="581,18,675,37" href="javascript:;" alt="" />
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</map>
</table>
</body>
</html>
thanks

Dreamweaver as code generator for use in other applications?

Hello and thank you in advance for your time and your help!
I realize and apologize for this lengthy post but I had to explain my issue thoroughly...
I've just begun teaching myself to use Dreamweaver CS3 (on an iMac running OS X 10.5.8 - Leopard) with the "Dreamweaver CS3 Missing Manual". I don't know HTML or CSS but am very willing to learn as much as I can. In the near future, I hope to create a new website for my domain in Dreamweaver. However, I have an urgent and immediate need and would like to know whether Dreamweaver can serve a specific purpose...
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I have a domain hosted by GoDaddy and a rather old website that I created using FrontPage 2002 (on a Windows XP desktop). For over 5 years now, I've used FrontPage so that I can work WYSIWYG to generate HTML code that I use in my eBay auction listings. Recently, however, the "network folder" for my web server (on the Windows XP desktop) stopped accepting my password and I cannot find a fix for it. It's my opportunity to finally break from FrontPage but I'm hoping that, before I do, someone can tell me whether or not Dreamweaver can serve my interim and long-term purposes.
I've been uploading image files using the "network folder" in Windows XP that I set up with FrontPage over 5 years ago. I "drag and drop" or "cut and paste" image files from my computer to my web server in Windows Explorer via the "network folder". Once the images are on the web server, I open FrontPage and ensure that the images show up in my web server files. I then open an existing .html document that I have saved on my hard drive, replace text and images within the file, save the file under a different file name, and then switch to code view where I copy the code directly from FrontPage into my eBay listing. This works perfectly well and has for over 5 years. I do not publish these .html files to the web, nor do I upload the .html files to my web server. They exist only on my hard drive and simply to provide the underlying HTML code for the eBay listings and nothing more. This method allows the images in my eBay auctions to be automatically sourced to their location on my web server without requiring me to do anything more than insert the image(s) from my web server into the .html document/file.
I think I'm discovering that Dreamweaver works specifically with websites and I'm wondering whether I can use it more generically in this way. If I'm learning correctly, Dreamweaver is quite particular about web server files having an exact match to a root folder on my hard drive. I've defined my site within Dreamweaver and I've since downloaded all existing files from my web server to my hard drive within a folder that is designated as the root folder. However, when I now open an existing .html document (one originally created in FrontPage and stored on my hard drive only) and replace an image (by cutting the existing image and dragging the other from the "remote view" of the "files" pane) with one that exists both on my web server and in my root folder, Dreamweaver makes the source/reference path point to the image file on my hard drive and, as you know, that won't do if I transfer that code to my eBay listing. So I've uploaded the actual .html file to the web server within Dreamweaver (something that I never had to do with FrontPage) and now I can change the HTML code manually (or the source in the "properties" panel for the image) for the image source to include "http://mydomain/..." (it doesn't include that automatically as FrontPage did). That now seems to make the code work but I have to store my .html files on the server and I have to make that manual change.
My question is whether I will still be able to do accomplish the following (even if it is by different means) once I convert to Dreamweaver from FrontPage AND whether or not I should abolish all of the current files at my web server and remove FrontPage extensions before I invest any time into making Dreamweaver my new tool for website development and maintenance.
Thank you very sincerely for taking the time to read this and for your response and good advice!

Get Turbo Lister (a free page editing and listing tool from eBay).
http://pages.ebay.com/turbo_lister/
eBay uses some seriously flawed markup on their auction pages. In fact, they don't even ALLOW you to use good code. You're better off using their proprietary tools for this. IMO, DW is not the right tool for creating eBay pages.
When you're ready to build a serious web site, come back to Dreamweaver.
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