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20 Jul 08 - 08:49 AM (#2393391) Subject: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Murray MacLeod No, I don't have any Gainsboroughs or Canalettos for sale, I just want to know how to create an Ebay listing with large pictures similar in size to those displayed on this item. I am using a Panasonic Lumix DMC FX35, if that is of any relevance (I suspect not) and I have no problem uploading pictures to listings, it's just that I want them to come up full screen size, as in that listing I linked to. All advice gratefully received, as ever ... |
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20 Jul 08 - 09:03 AM (#2393396) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Donuel You can use the free site image cave uplaod your picture there and then use the url they give you and put it in the auction building box ebay provides. |
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20 Jul 08 - 10:52 AM (#2393446) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Murray MacLeod ..."use the url they give you and put it in the auction building box ebay provides "... you've lost me, Donuel. when I come to upload pictures, all I have is the option to browse the pictures on my computer, I don't see no "auction building box" ... |
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20 Jul 08 - 11:14 AM (#2393459) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: katlaughing I think what he means, Murray, is use an off-ebay-site place to park your pictures, copy the url addy for them, then post that as an html link in your ebay posting. I've done that using my account at www.myopera.com. Flikr would work, too, I am sure. There are also services which are specifically for holding photos for ebay auctions, too. |
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20 Jul 08 - 11:28 AM (#2393467) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Murray MacLeod ah, right Kat, the penny drops, I see what Donuel meant now. that is not what I want, however, I need the large pictures to appear right there on the Ebay listing. |
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20 Jul 08 - 11:38 AM (#2393469) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Stilly River Sage 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 |
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20 Jul 08 - 12:02 PM (#2393476) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Murray MacLeod that is a very succinct and helpful reply, SRS. I am beginning to grasp that getting pictures that size does require remote hosting, and cannot be done loading direct from the computer to Ebay. Your method makes a lot of sense, but I am still left with the puzzle of how these pictures in the link I gave in the first post come up big right from the start, without clicking on a smaller picture ? I did notice that when you move the cursor over these pictures it says "hosted by imageshack.us" |
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20 Jul 08 - 12:31 PM (#2393491) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Stilly River Sage My images display in the listing, from the remote site. You have to include the source code where to go to find the photo. I have done two screen shots for illustration. They are stored at my Photobucket site and I'll link to them (Mudcat won't let images display on the threads). This first one is simply from the command to View Source Code (from the View menu on your browser command bar). Source Code (a fraction of it). This is the same bit, dropped into Word and formatted to have the same appearance. I've used highlighting and added some contrasting text to show the way to display the photo and make it a hot link. If you want just to display the larger photo, then you don't use the href tag and URL within the code. Word marked up source code. Hand coding this I would do it a little differently than FrontPage, I wouldn't have two separate sets of carets to do the one command. FrontPage is sloppy. I always set these to open in a new window, because I don't want them to accidentally navigate away from my eBay auction. SRS |
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20 Jul 08 - 12:35 PM (#2393496) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Stilly River Sage We're skipping over each other here. You can put big photos directly in eBay but you pay eBay more to do it. That's why so many of us do the html to redirect the browser to go to a separate place for the images, with out reference to the main eBay photo hosting. You have to have some html savvy or you'll put your text and photos all over the top of each other. Photobucket and other sites do limit the size they will let photos they host display. So if you load a full size image it will still be saved by them so it displays the size to fit a 17" flat panel screen. SRS |
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20 Jul 08 - 12:49 PM (#2393506) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Stilly River Sage The UK eBay page finally finished loading. That appears to simply be a series of photos linked back to the eBay page one after another, no text except at the very beginning and end, so there isn't a problem of walking over the top. Those photos each spoke the thousands words one hears about. SRS |
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20 Jul 08 - 02:36 PM (#2393562) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Murray MacLeod Ah right, now I get it ! Jeez, how obvious is it once it is explained ... Thanks Donuel, Kat and SRS, all I have to do is brush up on my somewhat rusty HTML and away we go. One final question , if anybody can answer, when you try to right- click on the pictures in my above link, it comes up with a copyright message instead of displaying the source code. How do they do that ?? (just idle curiosity on my part.) |
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20 Jul 08 - 05:04 PM (#2393647) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Stilly River Sage That is also in the source code. To find the controlling part after doing "View Source," scroll down past the tons of stuff that has to do with how the eBay auction page works, and in the bottom 1/3 or so and you'll find the user added auction text. Example number three When you get to this customer's description is says "Begin Description" I'll finish this in the next post. Mudcat isn't letting this code go through, lets see if breaking it up works. SRS |
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20 Jul 08 - 05:05 PM (#2393649) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Stilly River Sage He has a whole bunch of spacer code (n b s p without spaces, surrounded by an ampersand and a semi-colon). That's like building a cairn so you can easily find what you're looking for in the body of code. After that, you'll find the java script code that controls the images and the message. Look at it carefully and you'll see the directions. You can in fact simply copy the images URLs from the img src lines and paste them into your browser to see the photos alone, but if you try to go through the browser window controlled by the javascript, you can't do it. Source code is really amazing if you take time to look at it. SRS |
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20 Jul 08 - 05:19 PM (#2393658) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Murray MacLeod How did you do that, SRS ? Right-clicking on any part of that Ebay listing just brings up the copyright message when I do it , not the usual menu with View Source as an option :-( |
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20 Jul 08 - 06:46 PM (#2393700) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Murray MacLeod another question , SRS, if you don't mind me picking your brains again. why do you need that line in your "WORD marked up source code " above, the one beginning a target="blank" href = ......... wouldn't it work the same going straight to the I M G ...S R C command , or am I missing something very obvious here ... |
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20 Jul 08 - 09:14 PM (#2393764) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Stilly River Sage FrontPage puts things in that order when you work on the design page. If I were hand coding it I would put the "target" verbage after the link. I wouldn't have two entries, I would start as you suggest, and include the target URL all within one set of carets. To view the source code go to the top of your browser window and open the View menu. In there (I'm using IE, but it is similar in others) choose "source" and a Notepad window will open with all of the html that is controlling the page. That's where I got the text I copied. If you have Front Page you can literally load someone else's page (just click to open a file, then enter that URL and there it is). Pick it apart, look at the code, whatever. Did this answer your questions? SRS |
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21 Jul 08 - 02:45 AM (#2393882) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Murray MacLeod Thanks, SRS, that answers the question, unfortunately my IE browser doesn't have the File ---View ---Edit bar at the top, don't know why, but by going into Firefox I was able to view the source code the way you suggested. Maybe I should buy FrontPage, I will be doing quite a bit of Ebay selling in the near future. |
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21 Jul 08 - 11:08 AM (#2394208) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Stilly River Sage If you're using the newer IE then you have to reset it to display the menu bar. I did it a long time ago so had to poke around to find it. Mouse over the top of the browser window next to whatever icons you do have there, or under the address bar, and right click. Select "Menu bar" and it will appear and stay put. I don't think Microsoft is making FrontPage any more. Dreamweaver is owned by Adobe now, and if you're going to buy and learn a new program you ought to go with that one. The learning curve to change programs is what gets me--I had to use FrontPage at work until they opened it up so we could use whatever html editor. By then I had FrontPage down and haven't had a chance to really learn Dreamweaver. But it is a better program if you're starting out. Expensive if you buy the entire suite, but if you need just the html editor (check the sales configuration at Adobe.com) it might not be so bad. And there are lots of other cheap and free html editors out there. Bill D has a list of free programs he uses and I'm sure he included an html editor. Perhaps he'll discover this thread, or you could send him a PM. SRS |
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21 Jul 08 - 01:40 PM (#2394357) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Murray MacLeod amazing, two clicks and it appears. when I read posts from you and from John in Kansas, I am inexorably reminded of the couplet from Oliver Goldsmith's "The Village Schoolmaster": "And still they gaz'd and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew" or in your case of course, "all she knew" |
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21 Jul 08 - 06:29 PM (#2394592) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Stilly River Sage How nice! Thank you! SRS |
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22 Jul 08 - 12:47 PM (#2395208) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Donuel Stilly Dreamweaver is a good idea since the pictures you use, can be in Flash video. Flash video is almost always more informative and persuasive than any still image no matter how large. Seeing something from above and below and all sides gives more confidence than one selective angle that may be hiding something. However the learning curve for Dreamweaver has me stymied. crap... Now I have misplaced the instruction book. I may end up calling the Geek Squad to give me a practical & fundamental start to build a website with Dreamweaver?! overview: There is the option on ebay to use your own picture link from a provider or even your own webpage link. If you see an auction layout you like you can look at its properties and copy much of the html code. my opinion: I am sick of Ebay. Ebay is in big international trouble and its shares are dropping. France won a decision that Ebay is respondsible for knock off desinger purse sales and is now faced with paying a $63 million fine. This will lead to other item disputes soon. Ebay is also shrinking after many of their senseless price increases. Craigs list or other selling sites may give you as good if not better results. |
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22 Jul 08 - 02:15 PM (#2395274) Subject: RE: BS: How can I put large pictures on Ebay ? From: Stilly River Sage That's why I suggested starting with Dreamweaver, Don. Switching is a bitch. Learning html in Dreamweaver from the beginning (or having been so long since you did anything else that it is new to you) is the way to go. The learning curve is such that I never seem to have anything I'm working on at the time I've taken Dreamweaver classes (continuing ed offers it here). By the time I am to ready to do more web stuff the DW info is rusty and it takes too long to find the way to do things so I end up in Frontpage again, trying to force it to take on the look of some of the Dreamweaver pages. How goofy is that? You can teach old dogs new tricks, but it may take a little longer because you have to offload a lot of old ones along the way. SRS |