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Bruce Dickey

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:45 am

Brazilian Rosewood

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Does anyone know how Ebayers add self hosted pics to an Ebay ad. Bruce Creps does this in his Notable Woods sales which I find appealing. By self hosting your pics you can control the size and quality too, besides saving a buck per ad. Okay, anyone know how?

I've tried doing what the OLF software does . But it didn't seem to work. Okay, I'm all ears.

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Mattia Valente

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:49 am

Brazilian Rosewood

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I would guess straight-up HTML coding, no? Isn't this information in the eBay help section?

This tag: <img src="yourimageurlhere.jpg">

Try that?

The OLF software uses BB code, and square brackets.

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Bruce Dickey

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:35 am

Brazilian Rosewood

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Thanks Mattia, if that works, that will be great!

HTML-impaired here!

<img src="http://www.luthiersforum.com/homeimages/undercolonial.g if">

I tried it here, let's see it Colonial's Logo pops up?

<img src="http://www.luthiersforum.com/homeimages/undercolonial.g if">

Okay Pat, I saw that space, so here is a test of a corrected gif space. We'll see if it works. Thanks either way.Bruce Dickey38750.5883564815

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Mark Tripp

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:37 am

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I think Mattia is right - It is just a straight <img src> tag. I think they have a little tutorial with the syntax in the sellers section.

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Bruce Dickey

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:40 am

Brazilian Rosewood

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Still impaired.

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Bruce Dickey

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:55 am

Brazilian Rosewood

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Check the link I added for the picture. It didn't work, but I may have something wrong?

Thanks for the help guys. Not there yet, still impaired.

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burbank

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:10 am

Koa

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Bruce,

IIRC, the link won't work if it's just set into the text of your ad. It needs to be embedded in HTML, sort of like this

<html>

blah blah

picture link

</html>

That's how I recall doing it,but it's been a few years. Perhaps there's an HTML button below the text box where you enter the text for your ad.

Also, they have a test auction category, which you have to hunt for, so you can experiment on something other than a live auction. Hope this helps.

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letseatpaste

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:13 am

Koa

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I'm not a big HTML expert...

But here's the line from your add:
<img src="http://www.dickeyguitars.com/sitebuilder/images/MVC-644 Sbw-522x389.jpg">

I think it's treating your <img src> tag as a string of text since it's inside the tags. Again, I don't know much about this. I know it works for me when I type everything else in plain text.

Or you can use a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) html editor to make your ad description, then cut and paste the html source code into the eBay product description box.

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Bruce Dickey

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:16 am

Brazilian Rosewood

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4 out of three have trouble with HTML code....

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Mattia Valente

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:17 am

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Well, it's supposed to work, and eBay allows use of HTML (for things like editing fonts, colours, links, etc..). How does one go about editing an entry? Is there a checkbox like 'show HTML source' or similar? Because it's been added to your source formatted as text, so the '<' brackets are showing up as code, not the ascii symbol <. It's not that it needs HTML or BODY tags, because other formatting works. Your source looks like this:

 & l t ;img src="http://www.dickeyguitars.com/sitebuilder/images/MVC-644 Sbw-522x389.jpg" & g t; (Added some spaces beteen the lt and gt because otherwise the browser will render it 'properly', I think)

I'd help more, but I don't have an eBay sellers account, and the help section is a bit too massive to quickly find the answer...
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Bruce Dickey

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:35 am

Brazilian Rosewood

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I got a red x now.

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burbank

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:38 am

Koa

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Bruce,

Turns out you can just plop image statements in. I don't know if it's changed
or my memory isn't serving well. Either is entirely possible, the latter
perhaps even likely.

Turns out the colonial image file name has a space in gif. I corrected it, put
it into a test auction otherwise unchanged. It worked.

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letseatpaste

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:40 am

Koa

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Your pic link is listed as:
http://www.dickeyguitars.com/sitebuilder/images/MVC-644Sbw-5 22x389.jpg%3E%3C!--%20End%20Description%20--%3E%3C/div%3E%3C table%20cellpadding=

If you trim off everything after .jpg I think you'll be set.

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burbank

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:45 am

Koa

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Bruce,

You have

<img src="http://www.dickeyguitars.com/sitebuilder/images/
MVC-644Sbw-522x389.jpg>

You're very close. Now just add a quote mark right after jpg, no spaces.

It should look like this

<img src="http://www.dickeyguitars.com/sitebuilder/images/
MVC-644Sbw-522x389.jpg">burbank38750.5762731481

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Brock Poling

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:51 am

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Pat is right.

Add a " mark after .jpg

so it would read

.jpg">

that will fix it.

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burbank

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:54 am

Koa

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Bruce,

The quotes are necessary, but they won't help. I think there's something
wrong with the link itself. I copied it into my test auction, where the colonial
image had been, and it didn't load. Couldn't bring it up just pasted into the
address area of the browser either.

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Bruce Dickey

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:54 am

Brazilian Rosewood

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My Red X is now a BOAT! click to see it. thanks guys

No longer HTML-impaired, just HTML-copycat! That's a lot of typing coding all that stuff. It's okay to use copy and paste.

My error when first posted was hitting enter, to get the following "description end" off my pictures hiney.

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Bruce Dickey

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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:00 am

Brazilian Rosewood

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Oh, and yes, in the Description section when formatting an auction, there is "Add my own HTML" editing feature. So I was able to pull it off with all you guys help. That's good for a TIM TAYLOR, "HHHHOOO HHHHHOOOOO HHHHHOOOOOO"!

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