Ebay auction design help

typing00

Hi all

I figured that I should move on from using the standard ebay editor to describe my auction, and so have downloaded the free NVU web authoring software. The problem is that after I have finished designing it in NVU, I copied it directly into the ebay description editor and it turned out really jumbled (i.e. wrong font size, wrong spacing, etc.) Any ideas what am I doing wrong? I have tried copying the finished HTML codes to no avail as well. Should I use Dreamweaver or Frontpage?

Many thanks for your help.

danmanchester

I use Nvu too, but haven't had any problems transferring the saved HTML into the ebay description.What I do is save my listing text that I've written in Nvu, then open it as an internet explorer page - click "view" then "source" and a notepad page opens..I then r-click on this notepad page and "select all" and "copy"...then I paste that into my ebay listing "enter your own HTML" and I check it's ok by previewing before going onto the next page in the selling process. Hope that makes sense! Works for me anyway:D !

typing00

I have tried your suggestion but still the description ended up jumbled. The main problem seems to be the font size and bold/italics being incorrect. Also I am having some trouble aligning the spaces i.e. one `enter key' creates too much space beneath the text, if you know what i mean.

jstyles

I have encountered similar problems in the past with FrontPage, though it seemed to happen only when I was editing a page that had been 'copied and pasted'.

My solution was to ensure all the tags for fonts, etc , were in the right place in the HTML code. You may need to add some, too, to get the desired affect.

Just deviating slightly - I was pondering a download of NVU. Is it worth doing? Does it come with pop-ups or am I too paranoid?! And - is it that much different to Frontpage?