I use Photobucket to store the images (usually 800 or 1000 pixels wide) I use in my eBay ads. I usually do the ad itself in FrontPage, putting the images in a table. I always upload one free photo to eBay, the rest are from my hosting site. When the ad is up they display at 400 pixels wide (because I told them to) and the text is beside them. But I make each photo into a hot link so if you click on any of those photos the full-size image opens a new window.

The trick about using FrontPage is that it wants to save the image to your computer so you have to go back and make sure each URL remains linked to the remote Photobucket source. I cut and paste the whole table into the eBay page. Be sure to get the "div" tag (with carets around it) at the beginning and end or it will knock your larger eBay photo off to the righthand side of your table.

If you're using the eBay layout pages with limited text just use the Photobucket prefab link (it includes some of their alt text about free hosting at Photobucket, you can scrape that off if you know how). Do you want the photo to show in the ad, or just a line of text saying "go here for a larger picture." The pre-fab URLs at photobucket let you choose between them.

I don't know if this helped or muddied the water. But this is what I do.

SRS