i have my own template, and i have set it in the template preference as blank template, but i am not able to add the description to my custom description area, please provide the "tag" for me to work with your system.
i have try to insert the html of template and description together, to a blank template, but the area is not able to fit all the html, so i think i need to set the template and description area seperately,
please provide the "description area tag"
it is impossible for everyone to use your preset template, coz you may have a lot of customer know design and html too.
Please check the link below for my example template, to better know what i mean:
"i have try to insert the html of template and description together, to a blank template, but the area is not able to fit all the html"
Actually, you can put as much HTML into that area as you wish, there is no limit on our side to the amount of text/code you can have in here.
What I would suggest doing, is storing your code and template selection (Blank) into an inventory profile item you can use to apply to all new listings you create.
This way you only need to paste it into the description box once, and you can insert a large number of return/enter commands to place space in your code where your text should go. Since the HTML isnt setup to actually insert this space, it will not appear in the listing, just make it easier for you to find the location within your code where you want to enter your details for this item.
In order to save your item as an inventory profile, just check the "Save this item in my inventory" option as you are creating your listing.
Once the listing is created and saved, click on Inventory in Sales Manager (the link is under Display Options in the lefthand navigation bar.) Locate your item, and click on the item title. Then, select "Profile Item" at the top of the page, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the "Save" button. You will now see that your profile item will be highlighted in yellow on your inventory page.
After this is completed, you will see that the inventory profile has been added to the drop-down list on the Choose Category page under Apply Profile.
thanks for your reply, but i still didn't get how to make the description html to the description area i want in my own template.
and i have try both sm, smpro, the description area are limited and can't fit a long html.
i have the html (template+description) 1272 line long normally, and i am sure you system didn't allow it, it is a same problem as i having when using auctiva, it only allowed me to put in the template html (about 800 line), when it can't put in all html, the </table> will gone and the template look weired.
your system is too complicated, can you please simplified what can i do for just create a long html listing?
Actually, there is a limit to the number of characters you can put in the item description box. The limit is 64,000 characters. If your HTML exceeds that, it will get cut off. We apologize for the inconvenience.
posted on July 11, 2004 09:41:27 PM new
Hi pricelesstime. Vendio does not support third party templates (meaning customers' templates) yet, and it doesn't support macros even in its own templates. It only supports macros in emails and a few other things. You cannot insert a tag into your private template and pull info from your vendio defaults for description information.
If you want to do your own template there are 2 ways to do it: 1)If you roll everything into their blank template option the only thing on the page will be whatever you paste in and your picture will default to the bottom after everything is over. Just paste your description info wherever in your template design you want it. 2)If you choose one of their basic template outlines with an embedded layout you can control everything in the layout yourself but there will be no pictures automatically placed in your auctions anywhere, nor will they ever appear in the vendio storefront gallery. In both cases you can get pictures wherever you want them in the description by entering your own image code in the html wherever you want to pull them in from imagehosting.
Easiest way to do a totally custom template is set it up offline in an html editor with a design view, then copy everything between the body tags in the html generated and paste it into the vendio description field and preview it. Don't worry about how big the space looks on the listing form, just place your cursor in the box and paste--it should suck it all up just fine. Once it works consistently the way you like it you can save it in vendio as a profile, or just save it in your html editor and copy and paste out of your own html editor each time for each listing.
At first, be sure the listings are scheduled rather than immediate launch so you have time to do a final preview in the pending section before it is too late if you missed something when you did the listing and it is still not working right (it's easy to make a small typo in the image code and not have your pics work right if you are running everything yourself).
One of the benefits at vendio is that you really can do anything you want--but if you don't use their template design workshop and layouts it is a lot of extra work to do totally custom stuff. I did it for many months and it was worth it to me, but in general it is not worth it unless you need to make a very unusual design statement or you are practicing lots of advanced html and image skills for your own learning and benefit. Also if you are running everything yourself, you will also need to fix all your own errors at ebay after launch if something still isn't working, and a total template fix is not as easy as just altering images and changing description information.
posted on July 14, 2004 10:43:56 PM new
hi, i am just getting back into selling on ebay and have learned a little of dreamweaver...
someone suggested that i create my own template/auctions in dreamweaver and then copy them over to either ebay or in this case, i use vendio..
you are saying this is possible, is this right?
and i can place my pictures right in the body of my text etc.. is this right?
thanks very much..
posted on July 23, 2004 03:21:14 PM new
Hi vintagevintage. Since no one at vendio has answered you I'll throw my 2 cents in:
Yes, you can do that. Do the listing in Dreamweaver and enter your vendio imagehosting code in the Property Inspector space for the link(s) to your image placeholders. Be sure you upload the images to vendio first so when you test your links they will pull in the pictures from vendio in the DW browser test if the links are working correctly. Otherwise, you will only see your placeholders and not the listing with the pic(s). If DW browser testing doesn't pull in the images you have embedded, you'll know immediately there is a code error or typo you have to fix. DW makes that very easy in the split 'design plus code' view option-- when you click on the image placeholder in question the code view will zoom you right to the code associated with that pic in both the Property Inspector and the lower code section. When you flip from the design mode to the code view to use your code, ignore everything extra DW defaults in at the top, and only paste in the code only between the "body" tags. The vendio templates all have "body" tags already in place for you to paste between even if you don't see them when you paste.
I would suggest you start with the blank template and also attach a copy of the same image with vendio's attach image feature. Your text placement hosting code will pull the pic(s) into your ad wherever you put it, but that way a copy of one pic will also automatically roll into the very bottom of your listing from vendio. If you have more than one pic, only attach the one you want vendio and ebay to use. It appears so far down the page after everything is over that it's a peripheral extra --it really won't interfere with the overall look of your listing design.
The advantage of using that double image format is you can then designate the bottom vendio attached copy for the preview image and/or gallery image features on ebay merely by setting your vendio defaults for that, and if you decide to have a vendio storefront the attached pic will pull into the vendio gallery listings automaticlly so you can avoid he 25 cents to ebay and use either the vendio gallery icon code or your own custom text link to it in your listing.
If you only use embedded image code, it does not get picked up for submission to ebay by vendio so there is no upper ebay preview image unless you go in and manually add it for every listing, and there will be no images in your vendio gallery either if you use the feature. If you don't enable the ugly text reference option for the preview image vendio provides instead, vendio will submit a clear dot-gif to ebay in its place which you will have to go in and change every time in every listing after launch, and that means that the first viewers might not have access to the preview image until after you do the manual revision edits on ebay. That also makes very unnecessary double-work for you, because when you make the change at ebay to get a preview pic ebay will just roll that pic onto the bottom of the listing and it will look just like if you had attached it to your blank template at vendio. Nothing is gained.
The checkout will still function fine if you decide to use it--just enable it in your vendio defaults. It will automatially load in at the bottom of the vendio portion below your custom code while the auction is running, and then after the auction it will also load into your ad between the blue ebay description bar or item specifics box and the beginning of your custom DW code description section. If you want the checkout to appear at a place in your code you like better, vendio can give you the code to embed, but for it to work post auction it will probably also appear in the usual vendio location also because the defaults will have to be enabled.
To save yourself oodles and oodles of grief, do all your auctions scheduled with long delays so you can doublecheck everything once from the pending auction section. If something is amuck you have plenty of time to go back to your DW code, do the fixes, and paste in a new version if necessary as a pending auction html edit. I found it frequently faster to fix it in my html editor and just replace the entire pasted html at vendio than fix the html at vendio. Eiher way, it is definitely easier than dredging through all the code at ebay to work your own fixes there --and I mean ALL the code!!!--ebay's template code, the advertisers' code and logos and images and links, vendio's blank template code, (buried in the middle of all that your personal code section is tiny by comparison).
Remember, if you do all your own stuff and things go wrong, vendio will not be able to help you---you are on your own at ebay after everything is launched. But if your vendio pending auction previews are perfect, including the images showing up where you put them, the launch will also be perfect when it launches. When I was using the blank template with custom code and embedded images and checked every pending preview I had perfect launches--I never had to cancel an auction that got botched, and never had pics absent or disappear from my ads unless vendio's whole image hosting server section went down completely. Since your own code will pull the images, if there is a vendio glitch with only image management it will usually only affect the attached image, but that will be back up and running as soon as the glitch is fixed without you having to do anything about it. And in the meantime your description will have the most important embedded pics wherever you put them.
